video coming in, the confrontation seemingly escalated at the time when vice president bide zen n is going t visit ukraine, and it was two weeks ago that president vladimire called president ob a obama, and so behind the scenes, some believe that there was some positive events happening that we were not perhaps privy to. well, right. here s the cynic s take on this saga so faring which i think has some substantiation is that russia has done a good job of creating the pretensive diplomacy of the negotiations possibility off a breakthrough, and putin sends his foreign minister lavrov to say, don t worry, we won t do what people say we will do, and then putin does it. and one point kerry talked to lavrov and he called back to