yeah, it s fascinaing and president putin knows the united states is going to be involved with former warsaw packed countries and perhaps he puts it out there to just to at the end to get ukraine and even as he says today which is good news that we appear to be negotiating and we may be abvert war. we americans have been reading suggesting that he s preparing russia for war, talking about how they are in circle by nato and the united states and pretty soon we ll have nowhere to go. that s right, joe. but here is how these things are so difficult to read. russian television banging the war drums if you would like is