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Really identified a strategy to move russia. >> adrian. >> i think we can't count on russia to be a partner in any of the big picture issues when russia basically transgresses territorial integrity in the heart of europe. there's another country bordering on a nato country in moldova, and there's a district called gagauzia which on february 2nd had a referendum saying that if moldova moves into the european union they're going to break away and join russia and they're asking for russian protection. so we can have a cascading effect of changing borders, russia making territorial, new territoria...

Strategic picture and haven't really identified a strategy to move russia. >> adrian. >> i think we can't count on russia to be a partner in any of the big picture issues when russia basically transgresses territorial integrity in the heart of europe. there's another country bordering on a nato country in moldova, and there's a district called gagauzia which on february 2nd had a referendum saying that if moldova moves into the european union they're going to break away and join russia and they're asking for russian protection. so we can have a cascading effect of changing borders, russia maki...

Ukraine is the biggest prize in the former soviet union. putin has already made it clear back when he was president the first time that he expects to see russia basically dominate in that space. and i think the lesson for everybody else, the baltics, the central asian republics, is if putin can prevail in ukraine, he can prevail wherever he wants. >> that sets the stage for what comes next. i think china watches what happens and says if putin can do it there, we can do it in the south china sea, this will have a cascading effect on american interests around the world. >> a quick question, amba...

Country. ukraine is the biggest prize in the former soviet union. putin has already made it clear back when he was president the first time that he expects to see russia basically dominate in that space. and i think the lesson for everybody else, the baltics, the central asian republics, is if putin can prevail in ukraine, he can prevail wherever he wants. >> that sets the stage for what comes next. i think china watches what happens and says if putin can do it there, we can do it in the south china sea, this will have a cascading effect on american interests around the world. >> a quick quest...

Trees which then fall on local neighborhood power lines, or a more serious circumstance, sometimes we get freezing rain that can accumulate on transmission lines. when that happens, a lot more people can be affected by the outage. >> and how does it actually affect the grid itself? how does it become bigger than just that branch that may be iced up falling on a power line? >> if they get a transmission line that's taken out, it can actually bring generation plants off line. i'll give you an example. nuclear power plants need to be connected to a functioning grid so they can operate safely. we ...