border. >> john: so let me ask you these two questions now. if he does put forces into their hands, what should the response from the west, particularly the united states be? and to your point you just made there, if he goes in with russian forces, can you see a slow creep to the west or ukraine? >> he has forces postured to come into ukraine. certainly from the north. belarus as we have seen. he has naval infantry and the movement of his forces. from the north, he can approach from the crimean seat and grab a greater amount of territory and establish that land bridge we have talked about. so, he has plenty of options. i think if he's going to all of this trouble, in terms of the