has carved out for itself a set of relationships all of which revolve around many similar issu issues, protection of sovereignty and it's an old alliance with syria, it's one of the last cold war alliances russia has. when everything else crumbled maybe this is why they hold on. >> talking about the cold war the relationship between the u.s. and russia disintegrated in spectacular fashion since the reset, the worst since the cold war. what's behind all that you think? >> well, let's remember to begin with, it was only good for a short period of time when boris yeltsin was president, they needed us, needed western cash, when the price of oil was $20 a particle, now it's $100 a barrel. >> and there are tension points, one thing that comes to mind edward snowden. >> you have the snowden issue where the russians have given this guy asylum. if we had gotten a russian