Obama: ‘You Would Have Thought’ Putin Would not ‘Revert Back’ to Cold War Posture

OBAMA: "You know, it may simply be an effort to intimidate Ukraine, or it may be that they've got additional plans. And in either case, what we need right now to resolve and de-escalate the situation would be for Russia to move back those troops and to begin negotiations directly with Ukrainian government as well as the international community."

PELLEY: "What is Vladimir Putin after?"

OBAMA: "Well, if you take him at his word --"

PELLEY: "Can you?"

OBAMA: "Well, on this, I think he's been willing to show a deeply held grievance about what he considers to be the loss of the Soviet Union. you would have thought that after a couple of decades that there'd be an awareness on the part of any Russian leader that the path forward is not to revert back to the kinds of practices that, you know, were so prevalent during the Cold War, but, in fact, to move forward with further integration with the world economy and to be a responsible international citizen."