with our principles and consistent, in fact, david, with where the situation is going. we are going to have a unity government. we are going to have near term elections. we are going to have constitutional reform. that reflects the will of the ukrainian people and the interests of the united states and europe. >> putin is viewed widely, as economists put it, as the architect of this bloody crackdown. do you not fear this could take an ominous turn, that russia after the olympic games could decided to perhaps send forces in, to restore the kind of government that russia would like to see? after all, it was putin who guaranteed $15 billion of loans to yanukovych so that they would reject the west, that they would reject the european union. >> that would be a grave mistake. it's in nobody's interest to see the violence return and the situation escalate. there is not an inherent contradiction, david, between a ukraine that has longstanding historic and cultural ties to