aren't welcome on any international stage. this is how quickly this has escalated into confrontation. president putin is gambling president biden doesn't have the wherewithal to keep the appliance up while he, that is president putin, takes over ukraine. >> it's interesting, right, as you bring up, i keep thinking about the situation in syria and bashar al saud in comparison to this. and i think about it because they both have similar mentalities when it comes to leadership. and you talk about how he was personally sanctioned. and that did not motivate him to back off, right? he has gassed his own people, killing hundreds of thousands of syrians inside that country. and i think the overarching question here is with vladimir putin, will these sanctions motivate vladimir putin to, in fact, back off. and you in fact, right, that these traditional tool of