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Its planning to invade ukraine. it does, though, have demands, which you heard mr lavrov refer to there. top of the list is no nato membership for ukraine. russia also wants nato to stop its expansion eastwards. and it wants the rollback of all nato military deployments in the region. america hasnt relented on any of this. and heres the analysis of a former us commanding general in europe. i have not seen a diplomatic effort by the _ i have not seen a diplomatic effort by the united states, at t...

Into an east european country thats nato-friendly with the u.s. and allies. you cant rule out hell make an additional move beyond ukraine. >> in or out with this announcement, barb. this isnt about an intel assessment about what mr. putin will or wont do. as i said in my opening statement, we still dont believe hes made a decision to further invade ukraine. and if he does further invade ukraine, obviously there will be consequences for that, but he has many options and capabilities available to ...

To do it. >> he could immediately seize every one of the machines around the country on his order and also order the -- within the swing states if he wanted to he could take military capabilities and place them in the states and basically re-run an election in each of those states. >> that guy used to be a respected general. talking about the military going in to swing states and re-running an election. mr. giuliani was opposed to military being used to seize the machines even though he spent we...

It more and more clear that if they do so, its after gaslighting the world for months with this crisis that they have created. >> general, a step further than denying they ri going to invade the russian ambassador to the u.n. denies theres 100 russian tr -- 100,000 russian troops on the border. i wonder what you saw and heard from the russians? >> the russians have a capability. we have the intelligence, we have seen what those capabilities look like. >> we hear you. keep going. >> my apologies....

To be an absolute priority, both for the prime minister and the chancellor, too. south korea and japan have reported another north korean ballistic missile launch — the seventh missile test in the space of a month. pyongyang has not tested its long—range intercontinental ballistic missiles or nuclear weapons for nearly five years, but has instead launched an array of sophisticated shorter range projectiles, including hypersonic and cruise missiles. the countrys leader, kim jong—un, called ...

Threat is even more imminent. >> given the fact you just said youve spoken recently with both presidents, biden and zelensky, what was the takeaway, what was the tone, what did you get from those conversations? >> well, let me be clear. i spoke to president zelensky last summer when i hosted him here at stanford. and ive seen him speak. you asked about shouting. he doesnt seem like a guy that would shout. i think hes frustrated. hes in a horrible position. lets all remember how horrible this is....

I think if theres any question that putin has not made up his mind, diplomats and others need to keep working hard to prevent the conflict. >> general, russia amassing 70% of the troops it needs for an invasion, what does that tell you? >> intelligence officers, dont talk to me about enemy intentions. talk to me about capabilities. the russians have put together a force, ground, air, and sea, they have substantial 08-plus combat battalions ready to go in. this is not a bluff. i think putin was c...

Be enough to pull back from this. obviously really do it because hes afraid of the devastating sanctions that we would impose here. hes seeing that, you know, that his threats are causing nato to move exactly in the direction that he doesnt want. but im, you know, we dont know whats going to happen. im a little -- today than i was a few days ago. >> the deployment of new u.s. forces to eastern europe, specifically 82nd airborne brigade combat team, a combat unit with all the capabilities. now, t...

Allies in the region and support natos efforts, and 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 they are considerable resources and again, its important to make sure that we keep the alliance united. >> and echo, the u.s. uniformed military is ready to do whatever we are directed to do. and increasing the readiness postures for units and will be ready to...

Into the arcane art of intelligence predictions, ana. and the way i would assess it is, it could be one of two things. you know, they looked at, lets say, the fuel supplies that the russians have on hand for their forces. they looked at the number of forces that are arrayed. their capabilities, types of weapons systems, counted them, did bean counting exercise and determined that those forces are at a certain degree of readiness. the russians themselves may have reported what kind of readiness f...