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The russian president vladimir putin says ukraine is on the brink of civil war, this as tanks travel through ukrainian cities in the east, some supporting the government, others backing the pro-russia supporte supporters. william pom rans is with the woodrow wilson center and joins us live from washington. welcome, sir. >> glad to be here. >> in your mind, are the russians winning the propaganda war? >> well, i think russia's propaganda war is primarily directed toward russians inside russia and those russian speakers on the ukrainian borders. in that sense, i think the propaganda war is havin...

Needs to be continuation of the efforts that nato's been engaged in, which is to shore up the eastern flank of nato, make sure countries like poland, the baltic states really do feel like they're full-fledged members of nato. and i think nato is doing a very good job on that. >> -- they're allowing president putin to bully them. he suggests that the right thing to do in the near future is to send troops to that part of the world and that would show putin who's boss so to speak, do you agree with that? >> i'm very aware of what you reported today is that american people are not thrilled about s...

In, not confronting these pro russian militants and protesters because if they do, there's every chance it could escalate very quickly from that point. >> phil black reporting live from eastern ukraine this morning. as you can see, the crisis shows no signs of letting up. the situation could still deteriorate. that's according to retired army brigadier general mark kemmet. >> the word ukraine means border, just like in crow at, the criena is the buffer zone. this is putin's buffer zone between russia and the west. he wants to restore that buffer zone. he doesn't want europe up on the gates of ...

For russia's actions in crimea. that followed significant propaganda from russia about its decisions to annex crimea. so i don't think russia really is winning at this stage any propaganda war. it's effectively directing that propaganda and that information to its own citizens. >> putin doesn't seem to care about what international entities think. general kemmet who served under george bush says, at the moment the united states and europe actually appear weak in the face of putin's -- i don't know -- strong propaganda war. he says putin needs to be shown who is boss. is that what he needs? >> ...

President obama understands the situation but not likely to confront putin effectively any time soon. that's the top story. joining us from washington mary katharine ham and juan williams both fox news analysts. where am i going wrong here. >> i don't think putin is pit hitler. not only did he want to kill rice of people. >> do i have to school you in history? >> please. >> in the mid 1930s nobody knew that because that wasn't on the drawing board yet. so all knew this guy was a fascist as was mussolini in italy, juan. he also tell you violating international law trumping up to seize austria t...