ian bremmer's twitter question of the day.biggest geopolitical risk to financial markets? tweet us @bsurveillance. ♪ >> we are focusing on geopolitical crises with ian bremmer of eurasia group. he's identified 4 crises set to rattle the global economy. it is the topic of his cover story "nowhere to hide." we focus on one of them, russia. russia's conflict with the west. russia and the ukraine. russia and desperation because oil prices continue to decline. everything it does is tilted towards that. >> you look at the russians today and you do not get a sense of desperation. you get a sense of antagonism. >> to compensate? >> i do not want to talk about putin's compensation. that is a different field of study. anyone who might have believed -- that 10crease is increases in sanctions would lead to an iota of different behavior from president putin has been mistaken. inin supported the elections a separatist region in ukraine, which the ukrainians and nato and the eu, the americans oppose. the separatists did win. the ukrainians s

i talked about the recent situation with ian bremmer. he compared this cold war with the last one. >> they're doing a lot of business with the russians, it really matters. number 2, the europeans are not with us as much as we would like. earlier today, the european foreign minister, after tall escalation with moscow, i don't think the russian prime minister is a good guy, let's be clear here, we should focus instead on reform for ceafer. kiev. that's the foreign minister. thirdly, the americans don't care that much. at the end of the day we're talking about ukraine. we're not prepared to prop up this government economically. we're certainly not prepared to fight the russians over a noneuropean ally. and putin feels like he has an avenue to win. he's been escalated. >> i just came back from these eastern european countries where rightly or wrongly they do care. the west is not stepping foot in milmilitarily. the people in poland are worried, rightly or wrongly. the latvian, the lithuanians, you turn your eye your back on russia they'll in