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>> i've heard from american diplomats and foreign diplomats and much of russia is fueled by resentment and putin represents that better than anybody else. what do we do as a country to counterbalance that, to counterbalance the ill effects we are seeing putin have, not only in ukraine, but also in iran and also in syria? >> joe, russian foreign policy is fueled by interestses. it's not surprising, in fact, this is classic regional politics and you can't have all or nothing. you can't win by humiliating the other side. ukraine is an interest of russia. it's the next door neighbor. it's the -- t...

Underestimated just what a thug vladimir putin is. >> well, you know, they may have underestimated that and maybe they realized it but to try to play it the way they did. you know, the question is, okay, let's posit that put sinn a thug and the president comes out and says, we stand with the people of ukraine. the question is where do you go from there? what do you do from there? and how do you play -- walter russell, how do you play his great geo political game with putin in a way it's not being played already? and i just -- i genuinely don't know the answers to those questions, but i think o...

Attacking peaceful protesters with guns and truncheons. this is the russia that the west needs to understand and exist. the simply fact the ukraine crisis has been created and stoked from moscow. no one wants a new cold war but no one wants a civil war in eastern europe either. if that is where mr. putin's intervention and western passivity are leading. mr. obama may still be able to stop it if he final admits vladimir putin's deep hostility to a free and democratic europe and clearly tells protesting ukrainians that we're on their side. mika, what should our response be? "wall street journa...

That any potential agreement is going to, all of a sudden, disappear as soon as the olympics are over. joe? >> you know, i do think it would be good for the athletes to do something to protest. i want to read something, gene, that walter russell wrote in "the wall street journal" mr. putin is a master of the west a game he doesn't want to play and won game after game with weak cards. as long as the west beguiled by dreams of win/win solutions fails to grapple effectively in the muddy sum world of classic geo politics, mr. putin and his fellow revisionist in beijing and tehran will wreak havoc ...

Region? what does putin do next week? i mean, when the handcuffs, so to speak -- he has been restrained a bit, people say, because of the intense media glare surrounding the olympics. but when the olympics include there is great concern that the crackdown might be even more harsh than it has been. >> mike, that begs the question. if that happens, what does the united states do? what does that top ranking official in the united states government do? what is our official response and what can we do short of sending military aid? because we are not going to send military aid to ukraine but, at th...