>> well, i think you have to understand that this is a very complicated part of the world. and over the last 1,000 year, there's been a lithuanian empire, a polish empire, russian empire, ukrainian empire. crimea and a lot of these other territories have gone back and forth. not to mention the austrian-hungarian empire. so you have to be careful. one of the core pillars of post war europe is you do not change borders. instead of changing borders and fighting over ethnicity and nationality and religion, the idea in post war europe so there won't be a third world war that starts in europe, have differently ethnic people live together. crimea almost certainly did not vote the way it was reported by putin. there was no observation of the vote. they were voting with armed occupation. there is -- but there is significant sympathy for the russians in crimea. there were 25,000 russian