(1) You're leaving out the rest of that quote. "Putin again is much too smart to do that... what Putin is doing is he's basically in the process of wrecking Uk

(1) You're leaving out the rest of that quote. "Putin again is much too smart to do that... what Putin is doing is he's basically in the process of wrecking Ukraine and he's telling the West in very simple terms you have two choices: you either back off and we go back to the status quo ante before February 22 2014 where Ukraine is a buffer state or you continue to play these games where you try and take Ukraine and make it a Western bastion on their doorstep in which case we'll wreck the country." 23 min mark: https://youtu.be/JrMiSQAGOS4?t=1388 https://youtu.be/JrMiSQAGOS4?t=1388 Either the Russian's gets the regime change they want or they will continue to wreck Ukraine. They have no desire to own the country.