have 40,000 troops at a high state of readiness, may intervene if it gets out of hand. these are moving extraordinarily fast and one step away from lives being lost, a few cases of that so far. certainly in prague, jake, you re not going to find the level of anti-american sentiment you do see here. a lot of misinformation fed by pro-russian media out here, pro-russian individuals, which means a lot of hostility toward the west and the government in ki kiev. the problem is we see towns fall by one, everybody s waiting for the ukrainian government to step in. they seem to have been completely unable to do that in the fast few days. will that last? will they muscle firepower to do something of use here, or the manpower? we don t really know. it looks like talks tomorrow come in gone neev va between the u.s., eu, ukraine, looking for some political solution. moving so fast on the ground, you have to wonder if anyone will listen here.