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Pro-Russian activists gather behind a barricade with Russian flags in front an entrance of the Ukrainian regional office of the Security Service in Luhansk, 30 kilometers (20 miles) west of the Russian border, in Ukraine, Tuesday, April 8, 2014. A crowd of pro-Russian activists stormed the building on Sunday, April 6, 2014. Local media reported that demonstrators pelted the building with eggs, and then stones, a smoke grenade and finally a firebomb. The flames were reportedly quickly extinguished. (AP Photo/Igor Golovniov)

Putin turns up economic heat before Ukraine talks

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and PETER LEONARD - Associated Press

NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, U.S. Air Force General Philip Breedlove gestures during an interview with the Associated Press in Paris, Wednesday April 9, 2014, as he talks about his mission to formulate a plan to help protect and reassure NATO members nearest Russia. NATO’s top military commander in Europe, Breedlove is tasked with drafting countermoves to the Russian military threat against Ukraine. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

NATO Cmdr.: U.S. troops may be sent to Eastern Europe to counter Putin power grabs

By John-Thor Dahlburg - Associated Press

Pro-Russian activists set their flags over the entrance to the regional administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 8, 2014. In the city protesters dug in for their third day at the 11-story regional administration headquarters they captured on Sunday and began to declare their own parallel government. Ukrainian authorities on Tuesday reasserted control over an administration building in the country&#8217;s second-largest city of Kharkiv, 250 Km ( 155 miles) north of Donetsk, which had been seized by pro-Russian protesters, and authorities detained some dozens. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

LYONS: Russian bear eats Obama’s lunch on Ukraine

By James A. Lyons

U.S. Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove, left, the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, speaks to colleagues during a meeting of the North Atlantic Council with Non-NATO ISAF Contributing Nations at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, April 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Ukrainian officers join NATO drills in Bulgaria

By VESELIN TOSHKOV - Associated Press

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, right, shake hands in the lobby of the foreign ministry in Paris, Monday, March 31, 2014. Lavrov is in Paris for talks about Ukraine. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Russia demands that NATO explain military buildup in Eastern Europe

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

***FILE** U.S. European Commander and Supreme Allied Commander – Europe (SACEUR) Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove (front), joined by KFOR Commander Maj. Gen. Volker Halbauer, speaks during a joint press conference in Kosovo capital Pristina military airport in Slatina on June 7, 2013. (Associated Press)

Russia prepped to invade Ukraine within 12 hours, NATO warns

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen gestures while speaking during a media conference ahead of a meeting of the North Atlantic Council at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday, April 1, 2014. NATO foreign ministers begin a two-day meeting on Tuesday in which they will discuss, among other issues, the situation in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

NATO allies pledge to beef up eastern defenses

By JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

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SIMES and SAUNDERS: Obama’s Crimea blunder

By Dimitri Simes and Paul Saunders

** FILE ** In this June 25, 2013, file photo, Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg speaks during a news conference at the Presidential palace in Vilnius, Lithuania. NATO announced on Friday, March 28, 2014, that former Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg will become chief of the NATO alliance when current NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen steps down in the autumn of 2014. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis, File)

Norway’s Jens Stoltenberg appointed as new NATO chief

By Mark Lewis and Raf Casert - Associated Press

** FILE ** Russian paratroopers march during the Victory Day Parade, which commemorates the 1945 defeat of Nazi Germany in Moscow, Russia, May 9, 2011. (Associated Press)

Russian paratroopers along Ukraine border conduct training to take over airfields

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama pauses before answering a questions during a joint news conference with EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy and EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso at the EU-US summit meeting, Wednesday, march 26, 2014, at the EU Council building in Brussels, Belgium. Obama is on a one day trip to Belgium to shore up commitments he received from allies in The Hague, Netherlands, to reassure Eastern Europeans members of NATO that the alliance will stand by them and to make a larger point about European security a quarter-century after the fall of the Iron Curtain.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Amid Russia’s seizure of Crimea, Obama urges NATO members to ‘chip in’

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 12, 2014 file photo, A NATO AWACS plane takes off the NATO Airbase in Geilenkirchen, Germany. Russia's readiness to use military force in Ukraine has been a wake-up call for many European countries, which since the Iron Curtain crumbled have slashed defense spending. Some shifted their priorities toward international missions in Afghanistan and elsewhere rather than deterring potential aggression from the East. Now, a serious recalibration is underway, particularly in countries with memories of Soviet tanks rumbling across their borders. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

Ukraine crisis prompts security rethink in Europe

By KARL RITTER - Associated Press

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen speaks about &quot;The Future of the Alliance: Revitalizing NATO for a Changing World,&quot; Wednesday, March 19, 2014, at The Brookings Institution in Washington. As it steels itself against westward Russian advances, NATO may find itself stretched too thin to maintain a broad military mission in Afghanistan by its member states beyond this year. U.S. officials said having to divert troops and resources, if not withdrawing completely, from Afghanistan to secure NATO states would be an unintended casualty of the West’s new focus on containing Moscow. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Will Afghanistan security take backseat to Europe?

By LARA JAKES - Associated Press

US Army will exercise in Ukraine this summer

Associated Press

Vice President Joe Biden smiles during a meeting with Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite and Liatvia's President Andris Berzins at the Presidential palace in Vilnius, Lithuania, Wednesday, March 19, 2014. Biden arrived in Vilnius for consultations with Grybauskaite and Berzins, a few hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a draft bill for the annexation of Crimea, one of a flurry of steps to formally take over the Black Sea peninsula. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Another outlandish Bidenism: I led Senate push for NATO to add Poland

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the Federal Assembly in the Kremlin in Moscow on March 18, 2014. Putin signed a treaty to incorporate Crimea into Russia, describing the move as the restoration of historic injustice and a necessary response to what he called the Western encroachment on Russia’s vital interests. (Associated Press)

NATO allies criticize U.S. for being caught off guard by Russia’s military buildup

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Pro-Ukrainian activists demonstrate during an EU foreign ministers meeting outside the EU Council in Brussels, Monday, March 17, 2014. British Foreign Secretary William Hague says he is confident that the European Union will ratchet up pressure on Russia over its role in the breakaway of Ukraine's Crimea region by imposing sanctions on people linked to the secession of the peninsula. The 28-nation EU condemned the Crimea referendum which overwhelmingly backed a return to Russia, and the EU foreign ministers were assessing on Monday who to target for asset freezes and travel bans. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

East vs West Ukraine conflict not a new Cold War

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

Workers place an advertisement over a poster which reads, "Hands off Ukraine" in Perevalsk, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, March 11, 2014. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is sending a new team to observe military developments in tense regions of Ukraine after pro-Russian forces rebuffed previous attempts to monitor Crimea. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

NATO sends surveillance planes to watch Ukraine

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

A Nato AWACS plane takes off the NATO Airbase in Geilenkirchen, Germany, Wednesday, March 12, 2014. AWACS planes flying out of Geilenkirchen to patrol over Romania and Poland. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

NATO sends 2 surveillance planes to Ukraine border

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and FRANK AUGSTEIN - Associated Press