if the russians went into all of ukraine. i think the obama line here is that at they attack nato allies then we are dealing with a dinner kettle of fish. in terms the ukraine, i think it s all about sanctions and the highest sanction would be a boycott against russian oil and gas. not only in europe and uranium gets a third of its natural gas from russia, but worldwide. and that would have a big stinging impact on europe s economy as well. russian stock market has dropped 20%. some investors are out of russia. quickly a.b., it really does not look like any of this is slowing or stopping vladimir putin. no, whatever has happened to this day has not slowed it down. it s not deterred him. so if the europeans tell us oh we are going to do really steep sanctions if he goes into eastern ukraine, basically he is saying he can have the rest of ukraine. what is that going to do to moldova and other places? he is going to the change the map.
may be too late to prevent war in eastern ukraine but the united states must quickly take the measures promised by mr. obama or mr. kerry or lose what little credibility it maintains on ukraine. if sunday s continues it should continue kiev s request for small arms and forces. we re back with the panel, a.b.? well, when we were discussing the annexation of crimia, everyone sort of relented and said well it, really belonged to the russians, we will let it go but nothing else can happen. and now we are seeing exactly what many predicted, which was that putin had other plans, that he would find a way to instigate protest its and create pretense for another invasion in eastern ukraine. that s happening now. president obama has always been has frustrated his own supporters by being a long game player. the taker of the long view. and never really dealing with the fire that s flaring up in the short-term. there is no short-term strategy right now because the sanctions that were