nato and by golly we re going to stand by ukraine right now because we think you are trying to expand your empire once again. don t give us all that talk of culture and society. the ukrainians are independent, they are a democracy, they should remain so. by the way, we saw what you did in crimea, we re not going to stand for that again. then it goes beyond to places like germany. germany gets a lot of its power from russia. they don t want to send any offensive weapons into ukraine against the russians. we really think we should be able to work everything out. france says similar things. we should be able to work it out, but france says if it doesn t work out we re not going to stand for military incursions there. you see how it all shapes up. this is a real mix of people saying let s talk it over and people saying let s get ready to fight and it s really quite on a knife edge. with so many competing interests it might not take much to tip it either way, christi, boris?