bases. that was the message that was just sent. russian forces are now in complete control of crimea. they took over this weekend without firing a shot and without resistance. the big question is, where will they stop? the u.s. and its allies are weighing options after russian president vladimir putin defiantly ignored president obama s warning not to invade ukraine. this is ran act of aggression that is completely trumped up in terms of its pretext. it s really 19th century behavior in the 21st century. the fact is, he s going to lose on the international stage. russia s going to lose, the russian people are going to lose. he s going to lose all of the glow that came out of the olympics. his $60 billion extravaganza. he is not going to have a sochi g8. he may not even remain in the g8 if this continues. meantime, ukraine s interim prime minister said today, we are on the brink of disaster. we ll get the latest from nbc s bill neely, who s in the
if they were right then, what else are they right about? let s dredge up that phrase, drill, baby drill. drill keystone, undercut the price russia charges for europe and we ll win the new cold war the way we won the last one, by bankrupting russia without firing a shot, and we ll kiss off the crazies in the middle east while we re at it. maybe he ll stand up to the far left environmentalists in your own party. i want to play this, my favorite. this is john kerry bashing sarah palin and mitt romney over their short sightedness over russia. he s even blurted out the preposterous notion that russia is our number one political, geopolitical foe. sarah palin said she could see russia from alaska. mitt, mitt romney talks like he s only seen russia by watching rocky iv. oh, my gosh. bob, that that s
we thought the cold war was over and won it without firing a shot. putin thinks it is coming back. he doesn t think we won it. how is he fighting the cold war? the same way we won it last time. on economic ground. jenna: is he winning? i think he is doing a pretty darn good job. why? because he has ukraine in an economic vice. they re broke. they have a $15 billion debt. nobody will lend them the money. nobody will bail them out, except russia. they re vulnerable with their energy. all of their energy from natural gas pro russia. russia has shown in the past they re per lechly content to turn the spigot off unless they get what they warrant politically. jenna: we ve seen them do it before. the president keeps talking about cold war question months and months after the demonstrations began. here is his take on the situation in ukraine. mr. putin has a different view on many of those issues and i don t think there is any secret on that and our approach in the united states is not t
what does this accomplish. in iran they re spiking the football in the end zone. stephanie, he has seen movies i hadn t seen. i never saw the north korean movie. so this thing, this appeasment, you know, obama has has lost the universe in iran. yeah, yeah. already. here s what i love too. it s all like, right-wing, amazing race to hitler analogy. some sort of game show. how fast they can get to. it is just like hitler. it s not anything like hitler. munich. or appeasment, or i mean that happened once in history. every other comparison is a bad one. this i think any normal person would say, is a huge, the american people, in a approximately poll today, 2 to 1. a stunning diplomatic success like syria was. they called that a debacle. tell me how getting some one to disarm without firing a shot is a debacle.
pages, continues the beltway lament that we didn t go to war again when we could have, there s david ignatius, admitting how puzzling it is that even though president obama has accomplished goals that most persons endorse, the public overwhelmingly backing the course that president obama has chosen, quote, yet the opinion of elites is sharply negative. quote, the mystery is why this outcome in syria is derided by so many analysts in washington. it is a remarkable thing that has just happened in our country. the american public really did not want another war. we did not have another war. the president instead found a diplomatic way forward that the public loves. the issue was chemical weapons and syria is now on track to get rid of its chemical weapons. without the war that we didn t want, that apparently we re not going to have, because we didn t have to have it. we did it without firing a shot. win, win, win. the public loves it. annoyed and almost the whole pundit class hates it. wh