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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry departs Andrews Air Force Base, Md., en route to Ukraine, Monday, March 3, 2014. In remarks Monday, U.S. President Barack Obama said Kerry will propose ways in which a negotiation between Russia and Ukraine could be overseen by a multilateral organization when he goes to Kiev on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Kevin Lamarque, Pool)

Kerry heads to Ukraine as West ponders sanctions

By LARA JAKES - Associated Press

Ukrainian navy corvette Ternopil is anchored at Ukrainian navy base in Sevastopol, Ukraine, early Tuesday, March 4, 2014. Russian troops said to be 16,000 strong tightened their stranglehold on Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula Monday, openly defying the U.S. and the European Union and rattling world capitals and stock markets. (AP Photo/Andrew Lubimov)

Putin talks tough but cools tensions over Ukraine

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and TIM SULLIVAN - Associated Press

President Vladimir Putin listens journalists' questions on current situation in Ukraine at the Novo-Ogaryovo presidential residence outside Moscow on Tuesday, March 4, 2014. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

HURT: An unexceptional Axis of Wrong

By Charles Hurt

Russian soldiers fire warning shots at the Belbek air base, outside Sevastopol, Ukraine, on Tuesday, March 4, 2014. Russian troops, who had taken control over Belbek airbase, fired warning shots in the air as around 300 Ukrainian officers marched towards them to demand their jobs back. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Shots fired in Crimea as Kerry lands in Ukraine

Associated Press

FILE - In this June 18, 2013, file photo, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich. listens to testimony on Capitol Hill in Washington, by National Security Agency Gen. Keith B. Alexander. Al-Qaida&#8217;s Afghanistan leader is laying the groundwork to relaunch his war-shattered organization once the United States and international forces withdraw from the country, as they have warned they will do without a security agreement from the Afghan government, U.S. officials say. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

GOP to John Kerry, Obama: You make U.S. look ‘weak’ to world

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Demonstrators against Russian military actions in Ukraine rally in Times Square, Sunday, March 2, 2014, in New York. Western powers are prepared &quot;to go to the hilt&quot; to isolate Russia for its military incursion into Ukraine, &quot;an incredible act of aggression&quot; that may lead to visa bans, asset freezes, trade and investment penalties, and a boycott of a Russian-hosted economic summit of global powers in June, Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

US, Europeans try to rally Western front vs Russia

By LARA JAKES - Associated Press

** FILE ** Rep. Raul Labrador, Idaho Republican. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Inside the Beltway: White House media pals get cranky

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama gestures as he answers a question regarding the ongoing situation in the Ukraine, during his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Monday, March 3, 2014, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama warns U.S. may retaliate against Russia with economic sanctions

By Dave Boyer and Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This Feb. 28, 2014, file-pool photo shows Russian President Vladimir Putin during his working meetings at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti Presidential Press Service, Alexei Nikolsky, File-Pool)

Invasion of Ukraine isn’t Putin’s only option

By LYNN BERRY - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, listens to Gen. Ivan Buvaltsev, right, as they observe a military exercise near St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, March 3, 2014. pro-Russian troops held all Ukrainian border posts Monday in Crimea, as well as all military facilities and a key ferry terminal, cementing their stranglehold on the strategic Ukrainian peninsula. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

PRUDEN: Playing the chicken in Kiev

By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times

Pro-Russian troops control a ferry terminal on the easternmost tip of Ukraine's Crimea region just 12 miles from Russia, intensifying fears that Moscow will send even more troops into the strategic Black Sea region. (Associated Press)

Moscow shakes up the financial world

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, sits prior to a meeting with Israel's President Shimon Peres at the President's residence in Jerusalem, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. Peres met two of 'The Elders', a group composed of eminent global leaders brought together by Nelson Mandela. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

EDITORIAL: Obama and Jimmy Carter have weak foreign policies that invite war

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is among 200 conservative luminaries headed for the podium at CPAC, which begins Thursday. (American Conservative Union)

Inside the Beltway: The put up or shut up moment

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

Ukraine's Ambassador to NATO Ihor Dolhov adjusts the microphones prior to speaking during a media conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Sunday, March 2, 2014. NATO is called emergency talks on Sunday regarding the escalating crisis in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

US prepares tough response for Russia over Ukraine

By LARA JAKES - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Fyodor Andreyev, president of the Alrosa diamond mining company in the Novo-Ogaryovo presidential residence outside Moscow on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014. Putin on Wednesday ordered massive exercises involving most of its military units in western Russia amid tensions in Ukraine. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Mikhail Metzel, Presidential Press Service)

ORTEL: A czar rises in Russia, as Putin humiliates Obama

By Charles Ortel

A Russian convoy moves from Sevastopol to Sinferopol in the Crimea, Ukraine, Sunday, March 2, 2014. A convoy of hundreds of Russian troops headed toward the regional capital of Ukraine's Crimea region on Sunday, a day after Russia's forces took over the strategic Black Sea peninsula without firing a shot. The new government in Kiev has been powerless to react. Ukraine's parliament was meeting Sunday in a closed session. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

World scrambles as Russia tightens grip on Crimea

By TIM SULLIVAN and DAVID McHUGH - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 18, 2013, file photo, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich. listens to testimony on Capitol Hill in Washington, by National Security Agency Gen. Keith B. Alexander. Al-Qaida&#8217;s Afghanistan leader is laying the groundwork to relaunch his war-shattered organization once the United States and international forces withdraw from the country, as they have warned they will do without a security agreement from the Afghan government, U.S. officials say. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Rep. Rogers: Putin’s playing chess while Obama, U.S. playing ‘marbles’

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this June 15, 2013, file photo, Sarah Palin speaks during the Faith and Freedom Coalition Road to Majority 2013 conference in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Sarah Palin: I predicted Ukraine crisis

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Secretary of State John Kerry gestures as he speaks during a joint news conference with Colombian Foreign Minister Maria Holguin at the State Department in Washington, Friday, Feb. 28, 2014, as Kerryopened a fourth round of the U.S.-Colombia High-Level Partnership Dialogue. Kerry said he had called Russia's foreign minister to express US concerns over military activity in Crimea that could further inflame tensions in Ukraine following the ouster of its Russian-backed president.&#160;(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Kerry: All options on the table to respond to Russian invasion of Ukraine

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

An unidentified armed man stands guard outside a Ukraine infantry base in Privolnoye, Ukraine, Sunday, March 2, 2014. Hundreds of unidentified gunmen arrived outside Ukraine's infantry base in Privolnoye in its Crimea region. The convoy includes at least 13 troop vehicles each containing 30 soldiers and four armored vehicles with mounted machine guns. The vehicles &#8212; which have Russian license plates &#8212; have surrounded the base and are blocking Ukrainian soldiers from entering or leaving it. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Ukraine prime minister calls Russia’s surrounding of bases a ‘declaration of war’

By Dalton Bennett and David McHugh - THE ASSOCIATED PRESS