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Free and open end of pacific. steve or someone who might not agree as a leader to base on january 30, north korea is reportedly conducted a more missile tests including ones this weekend then they did in all of 2021. so seven tests this month. is the president spending enough time paying attention to north korea? or do we need to focus a little more as we try to increase his capabilities? >> the administration certainly had the defense department laser focused to the korean peninsula. we are in ...

Thats been provided by the uk. this is an exercise. but here, they know they may have to use their weapons against real russian tanks in the not—too—distant future. its a very big deal when our partners, our friends, from other countries are doing everything possible to improve our defence capabilities. do you need more? do you want more? you know, its hard to say what we need more if we are facing the war. for this moment, we have at least something that we make sure that we are capable to ...

Particularly with the nato response force, it has not been activated, it is a nato call to make, but we have contributions to that response force as do other nations, you know, as i said, its 40,000 some odd strong. our contributions dont come near the 40,000 number. the other nations have to contribute as well, but for our part, unilaterally, we wanted to make sure we were ready in case the call should come and that means making sure the units that we contribute to it are as ready as they can b...

Occupiers. >> thats what we would do in the porcupine defense, the way we gave stingers to afghanistan when the soviets went in. you would have some sense of that playbook. >> would we do that? >> yes. >> should we? >> yes. we cant stop russia from taking ukraine if it wants to. they can conquer ukraine, quote, unquote. we can raise the cost of occupation. >> like we conquered iraq. >> can we raise the cost of occupation? absolutely. you would have decentralized insurgent bands or groups. as the...

Natos efforts. of course, this is about nato and the alliance. and i would remind you that nato is a defensive alliance. again, youve heard the chairman talk about the resources that nato has. and i think there are considerable resources, and again, its important to make sure that we keep the alliance united. >> phil, i would echo that the uniform u.s. military is prepared to do whatever were directed to do. and we are increasing our readiness postures for units and well be prepared to execute w...

Me what now, ukraine needs from the west, point number one is that we need to increase the defensive capabilities of ukraine. this is, we should make russia weaker. weaker by introducing sanctions, weaker by presenting the sanctions if he makes a decision towards continuation of aggression. we should present to ukraine a membership action plan, because thatis membership action plan, because that is the right answer for the blackmail of putin not only to ukraine but for the whole world. the forme...

Inside them withdrawn. the russians have said that there are other compromises that have been put out there, but theyre not interested in taking a compromise on that issue. they say theyre serious about those demands being met, and theyre not, in the words of sergei lavrov, playing a game. >> matthew, thank you. meanwhile, in ukraine, the message from kiev is clear. europe must not turn a blind eye to whats happening. >> if europe wants to sleep well and to feel that their democracy is safe, t...

Over the last several weeks with -- with different kind of weaponry. what would an invasion end up looking like? i mean, we -- we have talked to some people who, you know, say this could be another afghanistan for russia there is such antipathy toward russia among parts of -- of western ukraine and -- and elsewhere. what do you think are the capabilities of the ukrainian people and the ukrainian forces? >> anderson, the ukrainian military is much stronger, much stronger today than it was when ru...

Nato allies. some units are already on a heightened state of readiness. i dont know of specific orders that general walters gave to increase the readiness posture of other unit in europe. i go back to a core principle here. we take our nato commitments seriously. we are going to be consulting with allies as we have been in coming days. if there are ways to bolster their capabilities to help their defensive postures, we will take a serious look at that and not all of that has to come or necessari...

Is about getting folks ready to go in case they are needed. >> the ones not assigned to the nato response force, they would be going in unilaterally on behalf of the united states. >> it really depends on the need and we are still in consultation with allies about needs. so, i really would be reticent to give you a hard number right now, but we are inactive discussions with our allies about any additional capabilities they might need on top of or outside of the nato response force. >> does that ...