national journal. so what do you make? i guess crimea according to putin is now part of russia, but is that it? is he going to stop with crimea or continue to try to take other parts of ukraine? >> well, i think the conventional wisdom would be that sending your forces into eastern ukraine would be a bad idea. will be very much harder to control. a much more open area. really would need military resistan resistance. also it's an economic basket case. let's say you do manage to control it. i think that what he's still doing is putting pressure on the government in kiev. i think one of the things that's really significant about that speech is he said this is not a legitimate government, which is to me code for saying i'm going to either try to bring this government down, or try to bring it to its knees and force it to become more russian. i think that might be the next move. >> the u.s. and the european union, they opposed some sanctions, a couple dozen russians and crimeans, if you will, and now the russians presumably are going to retaliate by imposing some