The Crimea Effect: hitting a seven year hitch

Vladimir Putin didn't greet crowds in Crimea or power on a naval ship across a glittering Black Sea to celebrate the annexation of the peninsula this year.

"They think that we're the same as them, but we're a different people. We have a different genetic code and cultural and moral values," Putin said. "Regarding the American establishment, the ruling class, its identity was formed in circumstances that are well known," Putin continued. "The colonization of the American continent by Europeans was tied with the extermination of the local peoples. It was a genocide, in modern terms, it was a blatant genocide of the Indian tribes." Biden threatened more sanctions against Russia this week after US intelligence concluded it was probable Putin himself directed a team to influence the 2020 presidential election by doing everything possible to damage the Biden campaign. Moscow has said it is not afraid of further sanctions.