from paris, ni ko, senior analyst at the european union for security studies and with me in studio, nic nic nicolai. there was a menu of choices. what does president putin demonstrate by making it a violent kinetic response? >> well, if you look at the putin foreign policy, it always was based for a demanding demonstration. crimea is the very same case. you know, what is happening during the last winter, this winter, they try to control damage. then he found himself , from the the russian point of view, he had to go in to crimea and take it over. now if you ask me what he's going to do next, i do not know, but it's based on what options he has, and with the west imposing sanctions and put russia in the corner and isolate russia. it's played for putin really well. >> it sounds like he's saying this is a domestic political problem. >> for the last few years putin telling his people the west is our enemy. wake up, they are not our friends. now the west is proving his point. it's working very well. i'm against the sanctions against of that. i think putin aside, trying to make russia more de