providing assistance to ukraine at this point in time. for me, i m not going to comments on the composition and the disposition of the readiness of the ukraine forces in any kind of detail. i don t think that would be appropriate for me to do that, given the current situation. barb. a question for both of you. mr. secretary, you have talked a bit here today about u.s. troops providing reassurance and deterrents to the eastern flank of europe. can you help people understand a little bit more about what that means in terms of what u.s. troops would be doing to fulfill that mission? how do you know when you are done? you don t send troops unless you have an exit strategy. what would it take for you to ever trust vladimir putin, and general milley, you laid out some pretty dire scenarios if
i m not going to comment on the composition and disposition of the readiness of the ukraine forces in any kind of detail. i don t think that would be appropriate for me to do that given the current situation. barb. a question for both of you. mr. secretary, you ve talked a bit here today about u.s. troops providing reassurance and deterrence to the eastern flank of europe. can you help people understand a little bit more about what that means in terms of what u.s. troops would be doing to fulfill that mission. how do you know when you re done? you don t send troops unless you have an exit strategy. what would it take for you to ever trust vladimir putin? and general milley, you laid out some pretty dire scenarios if the russians decided to make
apologetic about what he was doing, said he went to the synagogue not because he had ties to it or knew about it but because of its proximity to an airport like he had an exit strategy. all those become part of what made the fbi or what allowed the fbi to buy time, continue to talk to him, have him release one of the hostages, and then of course go in. i mean, this is what we heard was there a flashbang and then at least sounds of weapons. that would be standard operating procedure for the fbi or any law enforcement agency as they went into a hostage situation. you re going to protect the hostages and the hostage-taker is at that stage, vulnerable, probably can t see, and you take him any way you can get him at this stage and we just [ no audio ]
if hints from the germans they might cancel the nordstream pipelines are not to be german policy. the other question you have to wonder is what they think of the day after their invasion of ukraine, their policy would be fulsome over the strategy and i think are they going to stay there? are they going to get bogged down in ukraine indefinitely? quite what the exit strategy will be in ukraine. , , g ., ukraine. apparently joe biden did instruct meteorologist ukraine. apparently joe biden did instruct meteorologist to - ukraine. apparently joe biden did instruct meteorologist to look - ukraine. apparently joe biden did instruct meteorologist to look at. instruct meteorologist to look at the weather in ukraine, which some may sound a little bit eccentric, but actually there is quite a serious point here. there is only a relatively short window in which a military intervention could take place because if ukraine freezes over, rather if the frost eases and the weather gets warmer, th
he s apologizing, animated, doesn t seem in control. he appears to have no exit strategy, chooses a synagogue that that he claims was because it was near an airport. so there was no reason to have chosen it except for geography. so they may believe he was both radicalized alone and acted alone. that is not to negate the radicalization that is occurring within terrorist organizations or within the jihadist organizations to target synagogues globally, which we re just seeing throughout the united states and the world. yeah. and there s a lot we re going to learn, a lot we don t know yet. but it doesn t seem massively sophisticated. as you say a small synagogue in the suburbs as ed lavandera was saying. you know, that just doesn t sound like it was particularly well thought out. and i guess that points to the difficulty of stopping such