effectively claimed sovereignty over two provinces in the east of ukraine. there s the similarities. piece by piece, building by building. i don t think vladimir putin for one minute wants to storm france and germany and the u.k. there s no way that is his ambitions. that s the difference between know hand the 30s. the difficulty is that he wants to build old imperial russia. that is his dream. the complication is this. the vast majority of people in those two provinces speak russian and feel more russian than ukrainian. so this is not straightforward. it s not easy. i think what the west has to do is to put down its absolute redline and i suppose for some extent today joe biden did do that by reiterating american commitment to nato. but i m afraid the sanctions put