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Conflict. but on both on the economic front and there is stuff the military is doing to protect against a refugee crisis and the stuff that lloyd austin announced. talk about the way the military has a role to play here even though its not a role not so far at least and hopefully never a role that involves direct conflict or combat. >> sure, john. look, whim its not a large scale conflict, certainly we have seen it invasion by russia of ukraine. and the united states military has a role not to e...

>> well nato in general. the united states in particular, nato overall. this is vladimir putin fighting a war in ukraine for seven years now. hes not winning that war. so this is a continuation of the war that he started in 2013 in the husk. and this is his way to solve the ukraine question. nato has built up over the last several years, not really on russias borders, not in the way he describes it. and hes testing the lines here and hes looking at the airlines altogether, if the nato alliance w...

Im sure that at some point, nato countries will come along, but it may be too late for ukraine. it may be just too late. >> kira, what do you make of the explanation youre hearing from western leaders, saying they cannot institute a no-fly zone because that would feasibly mean nato forces, western forces shooting down a russian plane, engaging in warfare with russia, which could mean world war iii. >> i think its an illusion that this war has not began. because whats happening right now is putin...

Anti—tank missiles, more stinger shoulder launched missiles to take out aircraft. in the early stages russians will rely on missiles. they will rely on missiles. they will want these stinger missiles this is a decisive moment in the contest between freedom and authoritarianism, and we have to help the ukrainians at their own peril. it has been enough consensus among western countries, people working together and countries working together and countries working together and countries working to...

What do you think? what kind of impact did this have on the entire region? >> there is a theory, and i think the baltic countries will be the first to stand up and say were really worried about this. there is the theory that perhaps if putin is successful in ukraine that then what he will do is say okay, i made it there, lets give it a shot in other places. in the past there have been another set of theories that he really wants to test article 5 of the nato agreement to see whether or not if --...

Becomes a much bigger and more dangerous story. joey: absolutely. will: poland the baltic countries and romania. joey: one why this is so important to russia and two where support for ukraine may come from. obviously you have bulgaria and romania down here but also poland is probably the largest neighbor obviously connected to germany. if we are going to bring in supplies and support like all these world leaders are announcing, the ukraine announced today they would help the logistics to get in....

Poland the baltic states. lithuania, latvia, estonia. if the fight bleeds no nato now we are talking about a different story. joey: keep talking about article 5 commitment. announcement on this news channel yesterday what that means. right now its a piece of paper, a promise. what would it mean when it documents blood and treasure. thats the test that we all are waiting to see what that means. and hope that we dont have to find out. the idea that russians putting all kinds of troops here next to...

The ally power. our allies and nato. we will defend cyberattacks with the defenses of cyberattacks and we have the right to retaliate if russia launches cyberattacks against that nato allies, or against united states, of course. we so we are joined closely to nato. the presidents often said the article five to -- its a sacred commitment. its when we take very seriously. but weve also try to do is to make it clear that -- to reassure nato allies by deploying troops as you mention, to these countr...

This is not going to play out the way it will, but they continue to be on this path. >> katty, i generally dont like people to speculate that much, but im going to ask you to give a sense of your read of the wind and weather over there. you know, the unity so far as you pointed out has been strong. the fortitude has been strong. is nato up for that? from what you can sense and your reporting tells you, is nato ready for the kind of escalation that are they ready to hang together as people look t...

Reported in the baltic states and there were various fake news articles linked to russian websites. it talked about mustard gas. this is something that you often see as a narrative. most alarmingly we started it here, u.k. parlamentarians started warning about this before the united kingdom and united states saying they were very, very concerned about false flag operations that could essentially use this pretexts, this talk of having chemical weapons engaging in a chemical weapons attack. where ...