bible tracks around the country. north korea is famously atheist. you will remember north korea has charged an american, kenneth bae, with doing something similar in trying to taking down the government with religious activities. and north korea fired test miss else for the second time in less than a week. and hamid karzai is speaking to newspapers and he is slamming the u.s. government. he says u.s. forces should have focused on hitting taliban havens in pakistan and less on afghan villages. karzai has refused to sign a security pact with washington that would keep some u.s. troops in the country beyond 2014. now to the latest round of arctic cold, the u.s. getting hammered again. the worst of the storm is
ukraine. secretary of state john kerry is arriving in kiev on tuesday, this as a u.s. official says russian forces now have complete operational control of the crimean peninsula. so how will the u.s. respond now? it s a huge question lingering over this whole crisis. we re joined to discuss this more by the author of the limits of partnership: u.s./russian relations in the 21st century and director for russian studies at georgetown university. thanks so much for taking the time. good to be on your show. i do want to get to what you think the u.s. s next move should be but first a step back to look i want to lean on your area of expertise. what do you think russia s intentions are here, more importantly how far do you think vladimir putin is likely or prepared to take this? well, the immediate intention is to secure russia s equities,
community have to stand tall against what russia has done, and that means that the diplomatic process is proceeding forward. rightfully so. i want to compliment secretary kerry for going there tomorrow. i think i ve traveled to you ve crane more than any other member of the congress, and have met with more of their parliamentarians over the years. we have to help shore up that state working through the united nations, the osce, and the countries around the world where there are large numbers of the ukrainian diaspora. more people live outside ukraine than in ukraine because of the tragedies, whether it s kazakhstan or poland, they have to unite and unite ukraine
about all the cold air filling in behind it. all the snow expected to pile up here is going to last, guys. indra, thank you for that. we ll be monitoring the situation. while washington, d.c. may be shut down on one level, certainly the government is on high alert because the situation on ukraine is moving quickly and in the wrong direction. there was an assault this morning on weapons depot in crimea. thousands of russian soldiers have taken control of the crimean peninsula and ukraine s new government has been told that its military must be at full alert. now, at the same time, nato is trying to figure out how to ease the tensions, european foreign ministers are holding their own meetings on the situation. we go to brussels to erin with
those minister that are being called to emergency meetings are not confident of any easy way out of this, but that there needs to be intense diplomacy that has already been going on. secretary kerry, as you say, will be in kiev. he s obviously going to talk to the ukrainian government, not just offer aid and support because obviously the u.s. sports of pro-european, pro-democratic part of ukraine but also to say to them, a, they cannot afford to antagonize russia militarily because they will not have a chance of winning. you saw what happened in georgiain 2008, a five-day war in georgia and russia and the georgiians came out much worse for wear. there also a to be diplomacy. president obama has to lead. he is the head of nato. there is no military solution according to the leaders so they have to continue ratcheting up the pressure and making it extremely clear to putin that any more moves will be met by countermoves in terms of sanctions, in terms of isolation, in terms of more