We have to look at history and look at what's happening today. We have a country, Ukraine, that is engaged right now in a civil war. You've got the East and the West. The E.U. made a terrible calculation by saying -- the European Union -- that you either side with us or you side with Russia, you can't do both. And that forced a split in a very tenuous country where the president sided with Russia, half the people got angry, and now we're saying with Russia supporting half of the people that we should take a side. It would be a terrible problem. Together with Germany, together with France, with [François] Hollande, the U.S. has to negotiate. That is the answer. War should not be an option. (HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, July 25, 2014)