here in new york, stephen kotkin, director of russian studies at princeton university and thomas grahamanaging director at kissinger associates focusing on russian and eurasian affairs. stephen, you were just listening to victoria nuland give her analysis of the ukrainian election. what did you think? >> washington is having trouble figuring out to what extent ukraine is our issue or someone else's. certainly, the division of labor with this was one of the difficulties that she commented on in the infamous phone conversation that was tapped by the russians. you can conclude that this is really a ukrainian issue more than anything else. if you look at what is at stake from the u.s. and just having a policy here that is coherent compared to what's at stake for the u.s., it's not clear that the balances on the side of doing more. on the other hand, for the people of the region, the civilian population, everything is at stake. >> you think the united states lost its policy with ukraine? >> the coordination with europe over what to do. the europeans don't seem inclined towards further expans