russian history books say about vladimir putin 30, 40, 50 years from now. when he wants them to say is that russia was weak, that the soviet leaders let the soviet union collapse. wrongly. and that i was the guy that restored russia as a great power. i was the one that put us back -- >> so general, let me allow you to add a punctuation point to what you've just said, because to add to what we just heard, putin packed a lot of those grievances and anger into less than an hour in his speech today. did he sound like a man who is going to limit his actions? >> no, of course not, and that's why i think we have to expect that this is step one of a multi phased plan. i'll bet there's fighting to secure most of those two provinces, probably to establish a land quarter from crimea up to the maritime borders of ukraine, to the eastern regions.