russia than the west, then what's building up around this region is the home town crowd, loyal to russia, acting up. that's how the russians are going to play it, right? >> absolutely, neil. that's why vladimir putin chose the crimea as his bridge head into the ukraine. because it is ethnically the majority there are ethnically russian. it's an easy place. he does have, as you said, the home team advantage. it's also important to point out this is the first time president obama has discussed ukraine publicly since february 19th. that's quite some time to not hear from the commander in chief, from the president, any sort of warning towards russia not to move into the ukraine. this is the first time we're hearing from president obama since february 19th. also important to point out the message that came out of brussels from the nato ministerial yesterday from the supreme allied commander, the american general, air force general, richard breedlove is there were no contingency plans