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Stay with ukraine. how does that change the situation? >> that's going to be up to vladimir putin. if, in fact, the referendum indicates that the people want to turn west rather than remain with russian federation or lean towards russian federation, it's really in his court as to the next steps. will he in fact, put more troops in there to defend his base in sevastopol, fearing the ukrainians may take it away from him. or does he just simply say i'm going to stay here and never leave? that port is critical to the russian military. it's the only warm water port they have in their inventory. and...