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The ukrainian prince, be hit with sanctions, and then and only then, when the opportunity presents itself go after sown ukraine. there's no question that there's that sense of spiritual threat exhibited by what he's done over the last few weeks. >> go back to you, mark, isn't this just russian manifest destiny, like our own manifest destiny, that russia is not one of the countries in that part of the world, it's the country. >> i agree with simon, i don't think he's going to challenge the baltics. but he has said time and again that the greatest historical catastrophe that has befallen russia ...

Because he's been extraordinarily fearful of the fact that we were approaching georgia as a potential nato country, the same thing with ukraine, that's what he's trying to prevent. >> okay. let me go to simon marks, it's your sense of where he's going and how careful he will be. what he's done so far, he's been easy pickings. he's been an opportunist, rather than the aggressive bear starting on his own tracks. what's your sense of what he wants to do? >> i think you're exactly right, chris, and going back to your first question, this is going to be more surgical in the weeks, months and years ...

Games. it didn't buy him an ounce of international respectability. and certainly any good will that did exist by the end of the games has largely been shattered as a result of what he's done in the crimea peninsula, and may be poised to try to do in eastern ukraine as well. this argument that you can travel to moscow as the united states did a few years ago, somehow we can reset the relationship, it's all based on the motion that we're all speaking the same language, the reality as angela merkel said to the president over the weekend, is that vladimir putin may be in a completely different wor...

Stop in the crimea peninsula and cities in the coal mining region and move against them and that will only further up the a nte in the stand off. >> will economic sanctions work on putin? >> they will help. you can see economic dislocation caused already by the fall in the stock exchange in moscow. but in and of themselves, they are not the only thing that can be done and a whole range of other measures have to be contemn plated. >> simon marks, great to see you. >> thank you, alisyn. >> meanwhile a high school student suing her own parents and the dramatic courtroom appearance and how the jud...

Crisis. what can secretary of state kerry and the u.s. achieve at this point? we'll ask simon marks. great to see you. >> great to see you, alisyn. >> russian foreign minister are denying that the troops were sent by moscow. where does secretary kerry begin to negotiate with people who are living in a parallel unverse? >> it is increasingly problematic. theentious vents where we witnessed a prorussia militia hounding the united nation's out of the crimea peninsula underscores the volatility of all of this. it is not clear if the pro russian militia takes its orders from vladimar putten in mosc...