John McCain: Vladimir Putin still fighting the Cold War

Sen. John McCain said Tuesday that the Obama administration has failed to understand that Russian President Vladimir Putin views his relationship with the U.S. through a Cold War prism, urging President Obama not to back down from Russia’s recent aggression in Ukraine’s Crimea region.

Putin “believes that even though the president and [Secretary of State] John Kerry believe this is not [an] East-West [conflict], that this is not the Cold War, that’s exactly what Putin has treated it as and why there’s been a fundamental misreading of Vladimir Putin, his intentions and the things that he will do,” the Arizona Republican said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”