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The ukrainian prince, be hit with sanctions, and then and only then, when the opportunity presents itself go after sown ukraine. theres no question that theres that sense of spiritual threat exhibited by what hes done over the last few weeks. >> go back to you, mark, isnt this just russian manifest destiny, like our own manifest destiny, that russia is not one of the countries in that part of the world, its the country. >> i agree with simon, i dont think hes going to challenge the baltics. but ...

Because hes been extraordinarily fearful of the fact that we were approaching georgia as a potential nato country, the same thing with ukraine, thats what hes trying to prevent. >> okay. let me go to simon marks, its your sense of where hes going and how careful he will be. what hes done so far, hes been easy pickings. hes been an opportunist, rather than the aggressive bear starting on his own tracks. whats your sense of what he wants to do? >> i think youre exactly right, chris, and going back...

Games. it didnt buy him an ounce of international respectability. and certainly any good will that did exist by the end of the games has largely been shattered as a result of what hes done in the crimea peninsula, and may be poised to try to do in eastern ukraine as well. this argument that you can travel to moscow as the united states did a few years ago, somehow we can reset the relationship, its all based on the motion that were all speaking the same language, the reality as angela merkel sai...

Stop in the crimea peninsula and cities in the coal mining region and move against them and that will only further up the a nte in the stand off. >> will economic sanctions work on putin? >> they will help. you can see economic dislocation caused already by the fall in the stock exchange in moscow. but in and of themselves, they are not the only thing that can be done and a whole range of other measures have to be contemn plated. >> simon marks, great to see you. >> thank you, alisyn. >> meanwhi...

Crisis. what can secretary of state kerry and the u.s. achieve at this point? well ask simon marks. great to see you. >> great to see you, alisyn. >> russian foreign minister are denying that the troops were sent by moscow. where does secretary kerry begin to negotiate with people who are living in a parallel unverse? >> it is increasingly problematic. theentious vents where we witnessed a prorussia militia hounding the united nations out of the crimea peninsula underscores the volatility of all...

Tonight, sir. >> thank you. while washington scrambles to counter president putin, a number of experienced russia watchers are wondering why anyone is surprised by these events. many feel they have been laid out quite clearly for many years. simon marks is a former bureau chief. simon welcome. you just heard the back and forth i had with congressman engle, and john mccain and president obama. theyre talking about international law. who -- does putin care about any of that? >> i think thats the...

Their luxury cars. these people who have been feeding at the trough essentially stealing part of the corruption in this country. >> temeshenko is loaded and the dentist son of yanukovych is loaded. theyre all billionaires. >> he was on the "forbes list." this country has been plundered since it became independent. >> it takes so long to create a working democracy, democratic culture in a country. i ukraine, the communists, czars, all that hell and the oligarchs now. they have nothing good in the...

Going to the parliament today pulling up in their bmws and their luxury cars. these people who have been feeding at the trough essentially stealing part of the corruption in this country. >> tymoshenko is loaded and the dentist son of yanukovych is loaded. theyre all billionaires. >> he was on the "forbes list." this country has been plundered since it became independent. >> it takes so long to create a working democracy, democratic culture in a country. i feel for them. ukraine, the communists,...

Seen as sharing equivalents with the united states, both in terms of refusing to accept that will american democracy is a superior political system to the way in which democracy is carried out at home. >> is that a bad thing for the world or for us? >> its certainly a bad thing for the united states. no question about that because you see a united states that is embarrassed on the global stage after the events of the past ten days. a united states whose government appears substantially weaker on...

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