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Should there be the same level of heightened awareness from the u.s.'s part? >> good evening, laura, to you and your listeners, viewing audience. 2014 was, in the beginning, very opaque. it was very -- fog of peace turning into fog of gray zone conflict to conflict in donbas. it was -- we didn't know what was going on. the deception was mind boggling. and the narrative inside russian media talking about ukraine being a proto-fascist state, oppressing, if you will, donbas, talking about the problems and the persecution of the russian ethnic population to the point where if i were a coal miner i...

Opaque. it was very -- fog of peace turning into fog of gray zone conflict to conflict in donbas. it was -- we didn't know what was going on. the deception was mind boggling. and the narrative inside russian media talking about ukraine being a proto-fascist state, oppressing, if you will, donbas, talking about the problems and the persecution of the russian ethnic population to the point where if i were a coal miner in the urals, i want to drop by jackhammer, pick up my kalashnikov and volunteer for these different groups going into donbas. so, all of that rhetoric is coming back.