clif kupchan, you've had the vote in crimea, the reaction from the e.u. and the united states. wherwhere does this crisis stand right now? >> it stands at a standoff. the u.s. took dramatically sanctions against russia sanctioning the russian speaker of the upper house, really something i never thought i would see. the next shoe to fall is tomorrow when vladimir putin will likely annex -- or support annexation of crimea. that, indeed, will lead to stronger sanctions over time from both the u.s. and the e.u. someone will have to hit the offramp or we'll be back to something like the cold war. >> woodruff: nikolas gvosdev, is that what you see, a stair step situation where every so days the tensions are ramped up? >> we definitely have a stealmate at this point. let me slightly disagree with cliff. we don't know what the russians will do tomorrow. there are several steps they could take. one could be whether or not they choose to immediately bring crimea into the russian federation for which they would have to pass enabling legislation. my guess is they're going to neither say ye