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Certainly, putin saying that hes going to deescalate is a little bit of hope in it but he said that before and he hasnt done it. he actually did the opposite. were going to have to stop and see does he pull back? how many troops does he pull back? how far does he pull back? kind of capabilities does he limit at the border and does he really embrace the option of diplomacy? but, you know, putin has discovered that he has an opponent on the other side and joe biden and in nato that is one step ahe...

Its not just the troops. theres 150, 000, we heard of 110 but talented tickle groups. thats not what they are concerned with. they are really worried with some of the capabilities that hes amassed there. one of the things we hear a lot about his muscles. we heard recently hes brought in some additional naval power. they have land attack cruise missiles on them. the russian military has amassed a large number of missiles that could potentially be fired into ukraine and, in literally a matter of l...

Thats our challenge to hold things together. number two from his perspective, he is playing not so much to nato and to the west. he is playing to the nations around the periphery of russia, kazakhstan, moldova, not only ukraine, belarus. he is showing them that russia is a primal, powerful nation that does what it wants to do. third and finally, joe, he has to play here with china in the sense that he is showing president xi the competence of the russian military, its capabilities. those two nat...

Force. pete: especially because the gap of our fighter jets and china are narrowed. we dont have the automatic advantage. we need to train against the capabilities they have? >> youre absolutely right. weve been involved in combat operations last 20 years or so, during that time, while weve been involved in the middle east china has been innovating and investing heavily in the defense industrial base. youre quite right the gap has narrowed significantly. if were not concerned about that, were ab...

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#shieldsup. >> one thing we can understand for sure, vladimir putin cant be trusted on anything he says. weather dhs secretary says there is no credible threats, you have to operate right now because of a war footing everybody is on that there is a threat, something is going on. russia has demonstrated through its proxies they have the ability and the desire to attack us. dont have to just go after it here, they go after our interests and partners in other parts of the world, places where we hav...

Therefore i dont think these diplomatic talks are genuine either. they have been building up since last march with zero deterrents from the biden administration. now you have 130,000 troops, artillery and planes doing exercises in belarus. i think the noose is tightening on ukraine unfortunately. we are there to defend nato countries. we will not put troops in ukraine. >> harris: all right. back in 2018 i want to jog our memories together joe biden dismissed russias military capabilities. here i...

For austin its more a question of capabilities and putins intention. thats the big question, what does he intend to do? i think its fair to say all cnn officials simply dont know. so austin talking with his counterparts, with the allies in nato, looking at what they have on the ground, do they have enough, are they able to reassure the nato allies on that eastern flank, the baltics, poland, romania, the ability to defend russia if it were to come to that is unshakeable and nato will be there. wi...

So what were seeing is a build up. and there probably is a build up but we cant confirm specifically, but what that gives putin is a more ready force prepared to do what he wants them to do. thats why cyou conduct exercises. thats why theyre exercising and in belarus, its a combined exercise with their partners, the belarus military. the concern is, in my mind, is that when we look at this, those capabilities are there and weve talked about this before, but we clearly dont know whats in putins h...

Where they likely would cross the border and invade. >> yeah, i think when you look at that, when you identify kyiv, and then just to the north and to the east of kyiv is this nuclear exclusion zone. bear in mind, thats not very well defined, precise piece of geography, right? remember what happened in 1986, you had this amazing nuclear accident and most of europe was then affected by the down stream wind effects. horrible, horrible disaster that took place. so over the course of 30-plus years t...