mr. yanukovych fled kiev, to me that reflected the complete dis destruction of mr. putin's ukraine policy. and he had to react to that, and he did. in the we that he did. whether we could have prevented that, i don't know, but what i fear is that north side our government at the time there was probably a little bit of a feeling of we won. when yanukovych fled. rather than thinking of, you know what, we've got a big problem, and we need to work together. try to work together with mr. putin and our european allies to try to resolve the problem from ukraine, because it's very dangerous but i'm afraid, af fear that the sense of -- a little bit, yeah, we got him. ok, steve. >> steven blank, american foreign policy council. having just emerged from the same bunker as andy a couple of weeks ago, i have a suggestion that might help alleviate some of the problems andy pointed out. first of all, with regard to the objectives, we in the united states tend to separate the objectives of regime preservation, the alpha of putin's policies for the restoration of a great power and o

mr. yanukovych fled to kiev -- to me that reflected the complete destruction of mr. putin's ukraine policy. and he had to react to that. and he did in the way, in the way that he did. whether we could have prevented that i don't know. but i think what i fear is that inside our government at the time there was probably a little bit of a feeling of we won when yanukovych fled. rather than thinking of, you know what? we've got a big problem and we need to work together try to work together with mr. putin and our european allies to try to resolve the problem in ukraine because it's very dangerous. but i'm afraid, i have a fear that the sense of little bit, yeah, we got 'em. okay steve. >> steven blank, american foreign policy council, formerly the army war college. having just emerged from the same bunker as andy a couple of weeks ago i have a suggestion that might help alleviate some of the problems andy pointed out. first of all, with regard to the objectives we -- the united states -- tend to separate the objective of regime preservation which is the alpha of putin's

mr. yanukovych fled kiav to me that reflected the complete dis destruction of mr.utin's ukraine policy. and he had to react to that, and he did. in the we that he did. whether we could have prevented that, i don't know but what i fear is that north side our government at the time there was probably a little bit of a feeling of we won. when yanukovych fled. rather than thinking of, you know what, we've got a big problem, and we need to work together. try to work together with mr. putin and our european al plies to try to resolve the problem from ukraine, because it's very dangerous but i'm afraid, af fear that the sense of -- a little bit, yeah we got him. okay, steve. >> steven blank, american foreign policy council. having just emerged from the same bunker as andy a couple of weeks ago, i have a suggestion that might help alleviate some of the problems andy pointed out. first of all, with regard to the objectives, we in the united states tend to separate the objectives of regime preservation, the alpha of putin's policies for the restoration of a great power and o