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Fault here, wolf. at some point, you have to tell the russians that theyre not free to act however they want to, whether it be in ukraine or pressures on the baltic countries or moving in antiaircraft artillery and missiles. by the way, isis has no air force. and act with impunity. there has to be a point where we say, look, heres -- weve got to protect these people, weve got to stop the barrel bombing, and youve got to stop it, russia. >> so, youre saying that the u.s. should potentially, poten...

If mr. putin was to try and intimidate those countries that are nato members, i think you would see some different approaches by the united states in terms of what were doing. right now were partnering with several countries to help the ukrainian military improve. >> so final question, the u.s. has already imposed sanctions on russia. what else should it do? >> i think what youre seeing is there is an increased emphasis on putting forces and the potential for forces in eastern europe. thats happ...

Intentions are partly known and partly unknown. thats whats most disconcerting. were not really sure what hes looking for. but we do know, because he said this, he feels threatened, he feels threatened by nato and what the wests moves are. he wants to return to the age of having a great influence for russia similar to the old soviet union. >> as far as a direct threat to the united states, what might that be? >> what were seeing in ukraine right now is very dangerous. they are not an ally, but a...

Against russia are our only means of threatening them back. i think we have seen some military actions in the last few weeks, where both the u.s. army in europe and u.s. air force in europe has spread their wings a little bit more by conducting operations especially in countries along a russian border the baltic countries in poland and all these easter european countries have seen this happen before with russia and theyre not all that fired up about having this kind of action by their neighbors ...

Draw the line. were waiting for tougher sanctions from the eu. thus far, its just individuals. who draws the line? >> just targeting individuals is not going to do it here. i think what the u.s. has done is a step in the right direction. i think what europeans can realistically do and its doable and its necessary and they will have to do it sooner or later. the problem is, they actually do it later rather than sooner and that always raises the cost. but the reality is that whether weve been worr...

Of american and other nato ground forces being permanently stationed in the baltic countries and elsewhere too. perhaps poland or romania. really just as a reaffirmation of our deterrent of the strengthening of the message that if you come into these countries, it makes and means war with the united states. a very simple message of reassurance and deterence. not one of coercion. its designed to try to undo what were seeing right now, but how to handle this scenario if it gets worse. >> would vla...

Jill, i read an interesting article in "the atlantic." he was pointing out that from vladimir putins perspective and wasnt -- peter wasnt apologizing for putins actions in crimea but saying from his perspective this may make sense, from his perspective he actually sees a west which is increasingly encroaching on formerly russian territory. >> absolutely. from his perspective, you have nato moving steadily east. poland, czech republic, et cetera. you have the baltic countries becoming part of nat...

Jill, i read an interesting article in "the atlantic." he was pointing out that from vladimir putins perspective and wasnt -- peter wasnt apologizing for putins actions in crimea but saying from his perspective this may make sense, from his perspective he actually sees a west which is increasingly encroaching on formerly russian territory. >> absolutely. from his perspective, you have nato moving steadily east. poland, czech republic, et cetera. you have the baltic countries becoming part of nat...

Smallest the poorest in our midst whom we should welcome a hundred years after our independence who is it that has nothing to give us to make our effort and our sacrifice is worthwhile perhaps it is the ethnic minorities in our city or the jobless who have to immigrate maybe it is the elderly and the lonely are those young people who fly no meaning in life because they have lost their roots. and for more on the popes story of the baltics correspondent constantine for an airgun now joins us from ...

Abuse scandal the german influence the german influential magazine has a cover story headlined not to lie attacking the popes handling of the abuse crisis of course a constant thing is this trip taking attention away from that scandal. very much so i think a flaw that its rather like education from this scandal it did not attract a lot of attention in the baltic states and military which is a seventy five percent catholic because the catholic church is the usual recreate its year after the sovie...