and two weeks later, putin ordered the annexation of crimea and started a civil war in eastern ukraine and sounded alarms to use a russian missile system to shoot down american flight 17 recally here s obama s director of national intelligence james collarer. do you believe there should have been stricter sanctions in 2014? yes, i wish we as a nation had been more aggressive in 2014. russian jets using cluster bombs to attack hospitals to kill. civilians, in many ways,