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Own capabilities." i take your point that with you, its not binary, its not either the state or the private sector, there has to be a sort of symbiosis of the two. but in the end, you do take a view as to whos providing the lead here. you talk about — i mean, its a word i dont like, but you do use it, "directionality". and you say government needs to provide this sense of direction. you say that happened with the early days of the internet... its also happened with this. i mean, what makes our...

Allies who have given so much weaponry and so much resources, money to ukraine. and president zelensky has shown that he could be played by putin, that only happened a few months into his decision. so people in ukraine, in the ukrainian diaspora are very worried about his capabilities right now. >> always interesting to talk to you. thank you very much for the perspective. >> any time, thank you. they told president biden that the country needs to move away from the pandemic and ask for guidel...

About their travel there and how theyre going to arrive. i dont anticipate it will be a tactical operate in that regard, though, tony. >> did you just rule it out? >> david, i said, i dont expect its going to be some sort of tactical operation. but i dont have additional information today about that. and quite frankly, i dont think thats all that relevant. theyre going and theyre going to bolster our capabilities in nato, and thats the most important part here. >> you just seemed to say no. did ...

Allies if it comes to that. hopefully, it will not come to that. nobody wants to see that. conflict is not inevitable. theres no reason for there to be armed conflict in ukraine or anywhere else on the european continent. mr. putin can go a long way to serving that and by taking seriously the proposals that we have put forward diplomatically and by de-escalating by moving some of those trips away. >> is there any evidence that anything you are seeing that suggest the troops that are outside of u...

Theyre prepared. they would like to have a negotiation rather than an invasion. when it comes to an invasion, president zelensky has indicated his troops are ready, his civilians are ready. the other thing i noticed in ukraine, in kyiv yesterday or the day before, was that a determination, a kind of grim determination, among civilians. theyre ready to defend their land. so they are happy, president zelensky is happy to see this movement, this active measure, active deterrent measure by the unite...

Of there safely. we saw that all the way back to the raid that killed osama bin laden in 2011 in pakistan. these are the ways these missions are conducted. short, sharp, lethal, hot, get in, get out, and know for a fact your target is there. thats what they take to the president. the knowledge that they have, the intelligence they have, and they say to a -- any president, look, heres what we can do, here is what the risk may be, do u want to sign off on it. >> barbara, what is the current status...

Intend to invade ukraine. >> difficult to say, sandra. i wish we had that kind of a crystal ball, we dont. what we do continue to see, he adds capabilities literally by the day, giving himself more military options, literally by the day. we still dont believe hes made a final decision about whether or not to conduct another invasion into ukraine, he certainly has the capacity to do so any time should he choose. >> john: john, let me pick up on something you were asked at the pentagon briefing, w...

Country lines, is absolutely unacceptable. >> the biden administration today also confirmed it approved the transfer of american weapons from allies in the region to ukraine. what more do you want the biden administration to do to discourage russia from attacking? >> again, i think this is an appropriate move by the biden administration. it is a little later than i would have hoped but at least he is doing that so i believe we need to be outfitting the ukrainian military with not only defensive ...

Eastern flank. and that kind of gets out your second question, which is we are still in consultation with the allies about what they might need. and so i do not have any decisions in terms of specific locations. but we have made it clear to the eastern flank allies that we are prepared to bolster their capabilities if they need it. again, i want to go back to a core foundation year. the bulk of the trips i am talking about today are intended for the nato response force. the vast majority of them...

Expectations? >> i dont want to get into intelligence assessments as what we are looking for and the indicators and the sense of timing. he has the capability to do something any time, and by any time, i mean any time. he could do something very, very soon, he continues to an add to his capabilities. there is still a path for diplomacy here, we have laid that out clearly for mr. putin and he can accept the path and deescalate the tensions. start by moving some forces away. >> sandra: surely you ...