Richard N. Haass: “The EU is a friend not a foe. European countries offer the best set of partners available to the United States for…”

He doesn't want Ukraine to be a thriving democracy that would set an example that some people in Russia might notice and say, why there, not here?

The E.U. is an instrument on the trade issue. It is our largest trading partner and investor.

The last time Russia did that on a significant scale, it ended up bringing about regime change inside then the Soviet Union.

This is not foreign policy. These are acts of aggression against individuals.