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Understand the russian experience over the last century has been horrible at times. they were invaded by the germans. you had the siege of stalingrad and leningrad. you had -- >> stalin. >> you had stalin. >> and the czars before that. >> a country who perhaps as a result the leadership of this country may be cynical, may be very hardened, may think that the world is a brutal and awful place. and chemical weapons in the general scheme of things, if they threaten us that's bad, but you know, we actually don't care that much about some of these other conflicts because we've seen a lot of blood s...

Of old europe. and moscow's still part of old europe, and its capital, and i think they're afraid of what's going on to their south. in geneva today secretary of state john kerry began several days of meetings with his russian counterpart sergey lavrov and he stressed the common ground between the two countries on syria. but he also had a warning. let's watch. >> the united states and russia have had and continue to have our share of disagreements. but what's important as we come here is that there's much that we agree on. we agree that no one anywhere at any time should employ chemical weapon...

Peter agreed, if assad uses chemical weapons now, it looks like the man in russia has no power. >> that's right. and that would lead to an outcome that putin doesn't want. because i think if assad uses chemical weapons again the calculus changes. the use of force becomes much more -- a much more viable option for obama, we'll have more international support p you can see sentiment change in europe, for instance. and i think you're really likely to see a swift reaction from the west if he does it again. and that's the thing putin wants least here. he does not want the west using its military in...

To attack? i think they already knew we couldn't. >> what shifted the balance of power here, and i think mike's exactly right, for putin it's all about reasserting russia as a great power in the world and restoring the -- even said in his op-ed, we defeated the nats yisz together, we were friends in the -- he got that moment because the president of the united states happened to be at a particularly weak moment because he had misgambled in terms of the vote in congress. >> do you guys buy into this -- this is a tough question for journalists. i want to start with you, peter, because it's hard ...