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Gps. his book is soviet fate and loss. welcome to both of you. fareed, are we seeing or are we not seeing the beginning of a new cold war? >> it's not really a cold war, piers, because russia is not the superpower it once was. this is a country that is in many ways that tragically diminished what it was, one of the greatest losses of empire in the last 20 years that has happened to it, but i think what you are seeing is a conflict that is very reminiscent of the cold war, so that russia will veto any action in the united nations. the west will probably be almost all united in condemnation, if ...

To deal now with vladimir putin, you know him well, what is the smart way to deal with him, in a way that will inflame this? >> i don't know him personally, i'm not a putin apologist, i i thank you for saying that, one of the problems we've had in the country any time someone disagrees with the mainstream view about russia or the russian policy, they're called a russian apologist. the way to deal with putin is stop calling him a thug, stop calling him stalin-like and stop calling him saddam. see him as he sees himself, a man who inherited a collapsing russia. russia collapsed twice 1917 and 19...

Civilization. we've lived long enough to know what that means, the divide in berlin was terribly dangerous. we were lucky to survive it, on russia's boarders for decades to come, the possibility of provocation, we are in an exceedingly dangerous moment. i would call this a fateful turning point. there's only one question in my mind. is it really true, as it's being said in the united states and europe, that russia and putin is solely to blame for this outcome? i think that's not correct. >> okay. explain to me before we go back to fareed, why we should not be blaming vladimir putin, since many...

Extraordinary moment. >> guess what, pizza's here. >> the surprise pizza delivering star of hollywood's biggest night. how was the tip? the pizza man will be here live. >> russia on the move in ukraine. president obama's options. host of cnn's fareed zakaria gps. his book is soviet fate and loss. welcome to both of you. fareed, are we seeing or are we not seeing the beginning of a new cold war? >> it's not really a cold war, piers, because russia is not the superpower it once was. this is a country that is in many ways that tragically diminished what it was, one of the greatest losses of empir...

This surprise what happened in ukraine, surprised the west as much as it surprised vladimir putin. what you had was mass demonstrations of lots of people in ukraine, particularly young people who were incensed by the fact that the regime in the ukraine, in kiev was going to force -- was going to rebuff europe and instead cast its lot with russia. that's what produced this dynamic. we're all playing catchup, the people -- the real actors here, the people who have moved the story are the people of ukraine. and the people of ukraine particularly young people, particularly people in the west seem ...