he's called the candy king. that's how he's made his billions is in chocolates and candy. so he has to be a sweet guy to cut the deal he's got to cut to go forward. really to me the winner of all this is putin because he now has domination and more or less operational control over eastern ukraine. that's where all the goodies are. eastern ukraine is where the oil, natural gas, coal, energy industry is, military factories are, that's what russia wants out of this. and they got what they've wanted. these election results have shown. the people in eastern ukraine haven't gone to the poll. what's going to happen? the new guy will come in, he'll form a government and he'll have to immediately find a way to avoid a civil war that would be really provoked by russia. he's got to make peace with russia. how is he likely to do that? by letting the region in eastern ukraine be more loosely affiliated and frankly go under the domination of russia. so the reason putin is winning this is because any other country in the region is