yeah, crimea is important to putin. obviously for political reasons. the russians invaded crimea the week after the olympics. the other part of it is that their major naval bases, the only one in russia that doesn t freeze and other very big military installations that are important to putin. his movement into crimea is very direct and calculated and is not going to whether he goes into the ukraine or tries to annex ukraine is the next worry because of the economic pressure put on europe because 50% of the oil and gas that europe gets goes to the ukraine. so that leads one to ask the question that many folks are speculating on is that is this leading up to a new cold war? is that an overreach? no, i mean it is the cold war. of course, we ve got russia trying trampled an international border with soldiers with masks and without
really a lot of americans. should we annex that town? should we kind of just occupy it because a lot of americans are there? should we do that? no. in the crimea there s a lot the only naval base in russia that doesn t freeze it s on ukraine territory and they were nice enough to give the russians access to the naval base. i m not defending what he did. he crossed international borders with troops en masse without my point is one, we have no dog in this fight. and two, there s no simple solution by cutting their banking off that s going to do anything to affect this. all right. so you say you can call me dovish and go ahead. you say there s a dog who invaded but we don t know who that dog is. he ran away. you say we don t have a dog in the hunt, a play on your last anytime. thank you. but of course we do. because china s watching this. and if barack obama does nothing china probably seizes those
really a lot of americans. should we annex that town? should we kind of just occupy it because a lot of americans are there? should we do that? no. in the crimea there s a lot the only naval base in russia that doesn t freeze it s on ukraine territory and they were nice enough to give the russians access to the naval base. i m not defending what he did. he crossed international borders with troops en masse without my point is one, we have no dog in this fight. and two, there s no simple solution by cutting their banking off that s going to do anything to affect this. all right. so you say you can call me dovish and go ahead. you say there s a dog who invaded but we don t know who that dog is. he ran away. you say we don t have a dog in the hunt, a play on your last anytime. thank you. but of course we do. because china s watching this. and if barack obama does nothing china probably seizes those
yesterday was. i ll start with bob. shep, let s talk about the crimea for a second. there s a place where it s not as nationalistic about ukraine because it is heavily ethnic russian. i made a comment the first segment that i thought that putin will not pull out, that the crimea will go to the russians. and my question to you is, do you think ukrainians, since it s already an autonomous state within the country, do you think they really care? i think they care for a number of rei think everyone he including putin, for one thing, that s a warm water port to the black sea. and it has enormous strategic interest there. especially for putin. it s the only warm water port for him, the only place where it doesn t freeze over in the winter. you spoke of the oil pipelines.
yesterday was. i ll start with bob. shep, let s talk about the crimea for a second. there s a place where it s not as nationalistic about ukraine because it is heavily ethnic russian. i made a comment the first segment that i thought that putin will not pull out, that the crimea will go to the russians. and my question to you is, do you think ukrainians, since it s already an autonomous state within the country, do you think they really care? i think they care for a number of reasons. i think everyone here cares, including putin, for one thing, that s a warm water port to the black sea. and it has enormous strategic interest there. especially for putin. it s the only warm water port for him, the only place where it doesn t freeze over in the winter. you spoke of the oil pipelines.