those minister that are being called to emergency meetings are not confident of any easy way out of this, but that there needs to be intense diplomacy that has already been going on. secretary kerry, as you say, will be in kiev. he s obviously going to talk to the ukrainian government, not just offer aid and support because obviously the u.s. sports of pro-european, pro-democratic part of ukraine but also to say to them, a, they cannot afford to antagonize russia militarily because they will not have a chance of winning. you saw what happened in georgiain 2008, a five-day war in georgia and russia and the georgiians came out much worse for wear. there also a to be diplomacy. president obama has to lead. he is the head of nato. there is no military solution according to the leaders so they have to continue ratcheting up the pressure and making it extremely clear to putin that any more moves will be met by countermoves in terms of sanctions, in terms of isolation, in terms of more