for georgia which is a rival state. >> he's done this in the past and had success. this would be number four doing the exact same model, but this time as you rightly say, they're preparing to go even further. instead of creating some false little state that they'd then have to go shop around the world and get the world's tiny island nations to recognize, tomorrow the duma is voting whether it will accept an outright annexation and that is a much more aggressive step. >> wow. in terms of what is going to happen next, obviously the crimean referendum, there's the vote in the duma then crimean referendum this weekend. there's noise that russia is making, at least looking toward eastern ukraine has well. >> this is what i think you need to understand. so crimea, i hate to say it, is in a bad place right now. it would end up becoming part of russia or at least at its minimum state, it becomes a fake independent state that is really a russian state. maximum, it's part of russia.