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Status, even if they wanted secession, maybe thats possible. but surely i cannot imagine that steve or anyone else would argue this is a good principle of international life to say that every time a major power feels that the country next door to it is acting up, they just go up and gobble a piece of it, if china were to do that with its neighbors, how would we feel? if other countries around the world were to do that, that is the principle that is at stake. not the fact that ukraine is complica...

>> let me go back to steven, let me ask you this. youve been branded a putin apologist. which is a trite way of describing what youve been trying to do. which is trying to nondemonize putin, that isnt that helpful to how you deal with him. what is the smart way for the west, for the americans in particular, for president obama to deal now with vladimir putin, you know him well, what is the smart way to deal with him, in a way that will inflame this? >> i dont know him personally, im not a putin ...