sanctions. the pentagon tonight announced that the u.s. will put on hold all military to military engage maenlts between the u.s. and russia. that includes exercises and bilateral meetings and port visits and planning conferences. when there are international crises like this, when there are cross-border invasions, it's the u.n. security council that is supposed to act to resolve those matters, right? the u.n. security council met about this issue on an emergency basis on friday and they met again over the weekend and then they met again today. and although those u.n. security council meetings led to some very pushy speeches, because russia is a permanent member of the u.n. security council, they have the right to veto anything that goes through that body and so nobody expects that anything useful will actually come through the u.n. it would have to go through russia in order to go through the u.n. security council and it's not going to go through russia. there's also the matter of the g-8. the world's eight largest democratic industrial economies. this group used to be the g-7 until the late '90s when they