EXCERPT:
MOULTON: “That’s right. The motto of this conference is peace through dialogue. And although it is mostly NATO allies who are here, annual presence is always the Russians. And it’s important that they come and have this conversation with us. They pulled out a few days ago that is very ominous sign and there’s a tensed feeling at this conference that we could be on the precipice of the greatest war that the European continent has seen since World War II. The stakes are incredibly high here. If there is one thing we should learn about Vladimir Putin is that he’s not going to stop. We thought he might just go to Georgia, maybe he just take Crimea. Now he’s looking at taking Kiev, taking Ukraine and we have to ask what comes next. If it’s a NATO ally, that means U.S. troops will be there and Americans will die. So the stakes are very high right now here at Munich.”