long live poland. god save lord ubu. ubu. ubu. ubu. ubu. ubu. hey, mama, pass me my helmet and my little wooden pick. i shall soon be so cluttered up. i shan't be able to run if they chase me. oh, what a coward. and my pshit sword keeps coming off, and my phynance hook won't stay put either. i'll never be ready and the russians are advancing and will certainly kill me. hey, lord ubu, your knee rolling scissors are falling down. you, i'll kill you with my pshit sword and my face chopper. you're dead. ah, how handsome he looks in his breastplate and helmet, just like a little armor-plated pumpkin. i'm going to mount my horse. gentlemen, bring in the phynance charger. [clopping hoofbeats] i am going to get up. i better sit down. otherwise i shall fall off. stop this runaway brute. lord almighty, i shall fall off and certainly find i'm dead. what an idiot. now, he's back in the saddle again. no, he's fallen off again. oh, pshit, i'm half-dead already. no matter, i'm off to the war, and i shall kill everybo

the baltic nations and poland that lived under the shadow of russia and communism so long is viewing this in historical terms. we are seeing it in a modern frame work of what is happening in crimea, but they continue to look back at their history and thinking that putin has expansionist plans and putin wants to dominate the near and afar and grab the near and afar and they quantity to see military support and seeing the west, and especially the u.s. have a heavy hand on russia and feeling that putin needs to be pushed back and in a big way and stronger sanctions and there is a push for that at the leader's conference coming up in a couple of days now. >> amy, does he have a point when speaking about the european public and seeing a tougher united states, a tougher european union or is that wishful thinking with the regards that the economic structure of europe and russia co-joined? >> well, depending on the energy in russia is a problem. well, the baltic states and poland have probably much greater cause for anxiety over mr. putin's aggressive moves because they were, the baltic stat

living in poland. take a listen. >> today putin said in a long press conference oh, you know, all i want to do is protectights of the minorities, namely russian speaker, and he e's been on a campaign to get everybody who has any russian connection, retired russian military in crimea, given them all russian passports. now if this sounds familiar, it's what hitler did back in the '30s. all the germans that were -- you know, the ethnic german, the germans by ancestry who were in places like czechoslovakia and romania and other places, you know, hitler kept saying, they're not being treated right, i must go and protect my people. and that's what's gotten everybody so nervous. >> reporter: just to be clear, she was explaining today, clarifying that her remarks were likening what putin's actions, justification really for coming to the aid of russians as he is justifying russian involvement in the crimea to germany's, to nazi germany's really -- as hitler said at the time trying to defend german minorities in check slzechoslovakia and polan. here's what she said less than an hour again as she tried to explain t

going to get better for them in the short term in fact it may be a long time before the living can likely rise once you point out to poland and ukraine twenty years ago started off the same level of g.d.p. and you create a prison is only sixty percent of pollutants and that saves a lot in the body pretty much in the market. is in fact ukraine go to really become . a basket case or ukraine going to really deep forward and become a richer state i think most people would say it's in for a very hard long long yeah martinique could you speak to east and south in the ukraine because i think you know this is a moment of truth coming up because you know that we have this identity issue being played out here and we have already crimea brought back to russia what's going on with those people there because they're russian and russian speaking ok a good entrance into that is the topic of the east and south ukraine is a point of exception that i would draw with christoph where he attempted to characterize the people of the my don as representing the average normal ukrainian or i have to disagree with this assessment completely such a