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Pay. arthel: well, that happened in russia with crimea. nothing was done. what is the united states play here?where is this heading in the long term? >> the chinese realize we have defensive agreements with taiwan. we did not have defense agreements with the ukraine. what we did though have a something that was thrown under the bus. that is the united states, russia and the uk guaranteed ukraine their political sovereignty if they were to give up their nuclear weapons. which they did. then the russians took crimea which was part of ukraine at the time. at the time part of ukraine and that, rea...

Russia's rise as a major european power. establishing sebastopol as the base of its black sea fleet enabled russia to control the key maritime links with the mediterranean. on her journey across the newly conquered lands in the south in seven hundred eighty seven catherine the great also visited crimea which was also known as the tower of peninsula. she was impressed by its oriental flair but she also observed backwardness and poverty. katherine had an advisor and a favorite prince gregory potemkin whom she appointed governor general of what was called new russia. his task was to oversee the s...

And saying this is the moment when the rice of isis began and our planet became more dangerous. and if you look at this tour that he is taking, what's important is not the places he is going to go. what's important is the places he is not going to go. for example, he is not going to go to the turkish beach where that little syrian toddler washed up face-up in the sand and the humanitarian refugee crisis that he unleashed by his inaction in syria where 200,000 people were allowed to be massacred. he is not going to show up at the damascus suburb where president assad used chemical weapons on hi...

And saying this is the moment when the rice of isis began and our planet became more dangerous. and if you look at this tour that he is taking, what's important is not the places he is going to go. what's important is the places he is not going to go. for example, he is not going to go to the turkish beach where that little syrian toddler washed up face-up in the sand and the humanitarian refugee crisis that he unleashed by his inaction in syria where 200,000 people were allowed to be massacred. he is not going to show up at the damascus suburb where president assad used chemical weapons on hi...

It is not only taking advantage of the opportunity for russia but the objective they have is to protect the assad regime which was in trouble and the presence of the russian forces will help but it will not solve syria's civil war. i think he is directly challenging the united states and trying to reestablish russia as a power. we are conveyed we are not prepared to do anything about it. we seem deterred rather than putin being deterred. >> how do we fix that? >> we need to make him believe he is going to pay a price for his activities and we will not back down. it would have been easier to do...