soldiers in ukraine approaching russian forces at a ukraine air base. of the military basis have been surrounded by russian forces. there is a firing of warning shots before they confront each other. take a look: [foreign conversations] how long before this turns bad, right? this is a very difficult situation. imagine american forces being surrounded by the forces of another country in our own country. a dozen russians warn them not to approach. we will get more on this as it
i am afraid vladimer putin is going to remain there. i predicted he is not going to give up the base because that is a key effort in his effort to rebuild the russian empire which has been his power. i predicted this. i am very saddened by it, but not surprised. there were reports that russian navy ships have blocked off the strait and they can see the small area of water between russia and crimea have built a bridge with a naval block. yes, and vladimer putin s statements to the press that
tough. i want to bring in bob beckal. i want your announcement on what we should do. here is ukraine, russia, this is crimea and that is the area in question. the thing that is so valuable to putin. they have a russian base in crimea well, here is the base, back it up to the larger map, the reason why putin is critical about this area is this gives him a water route out to the mediterranean. you said we have to show putin we are serious, how do we do that in we need to write crimea off. paint them red. they have been reintegrating
fighter jet 22 and our lift capacity and the c-17, the future combat system and the inaccepter to base in poland. since that time he has taken $487 billion out of our military. now we are look at sequestration which will make it to the point where we are in a weakened condition. i carry around quotes by the chair mafnt joint chief of staff dempsey. he said our military will be so unready it would be immoral to use force. while this doesn t go back to rebuild our military, it doesn t solve the immediate problem in the ukraine, but it send a message we are not going to maintain this weakened condition that we never experienced before. martha: you are expressed concern about this for a long time.