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They find that status quo moving against them in ukraine. taiwan, the chinese are not -- they can much more easily afford to be patient. also, unlike on ukraine where the americans have explicitly said that were not going to defend them, every message that the chinese are getting on taiwan is that the united states is building stronger focus. indeed, if anyone had a green light it was putin because the americans are increasingly saying china is the top concern, we are building the defense pac, w...

That until quite late. the intelligence was coming and the u.k. was faster than most but the french, the germans, the italians know. though in the weeks leading up to the russian attack you did get a strong and consensus willingness to preposition forces to all of the frontline nato states. im talking about the pomed. u.k., denmark, spain, france. especially when three months ago the french government was talking about it autonomy and still reeling and upset about the defense pac. the french hav...

Paying billions and billions of dollars. so i think thats something well be discussing later and well be discussing that at our meeting and probably long before the meeting. were going to successfully confront the full range of threats and were going to need every member state to honor its obligation. so as weve just said, some do and some dont. today the united states reaffirms our commitment to article 5 and the mutual defense pac. we renew our call for nations to increase defense contribution...

Sovereignty by china would trigger the u.s. defense pac. he was unequivocal about that. and then just being very blunt about whats happening next with russia. there was not in diplomatic dancing or his own exit ramps that he left himself. he was pretty straight forward. >> chuck, president obama heads to south korea next. what are we expecting next? and he obviously had some stern words for north korea ahead of that stop. >> he did have stern words. the question he got about north korea was do y...