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Goal? if his end goal is to dominate the eastern end of ukraine, horrific civilian casualties are his price for doing that, that is different than if he has, like, a push around satellite countries or continue long term. the tools and the sanctions and all of these decisions about escalation provocation matter. what he's trying to do matters and some of what they've been doing is try to buy enough time to get the intelligence to understand what his real goal is. >> if, as president biden says, 2014 when he was vice president, was a mistake, that allowing putin to annex and keep crimea was a mi...

Of miscalculation or provocation. we saw how that back was affected, not just on the nuclear negotiation but when the secretary of state helped get for four hikers release. or when the u.s. navy ship was captured by the iranians and sailors were released. right now, it seems like the hotline that we have has gone cold and i think it's important that we keep those communications going so that an act like this doesn't lead to escalation provocation. >> heather: it will be interesting to see how the trump administration handles all this moving forward. thank you so much for joining us. >> jon: de...