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Introduction In late 2021, ships from China’s North Sea Fleet conducted “Maritime Joint-2021” (海上联合-2021, Haishang lianhe-2021) with the Russian Pacific fleet, which was a joint naval exercise focused on securing sea lanes of communication. Not only did the exercise, “demonstrate the resolve of two great powers,” according to state media, it was also a chance for each side to observe …

As much of their allies, maybe they can take advantage and shake the trees. if you are a country like russia, thats one of the big reasons why putin has been challenging us on ukraine and the status quo of the european security environment over the course of the past few weeks. >> michael steel here, lets go to russia. you just set it up perfectly. you got putin whos trying to move the pieces on the geopolitical chess board on his favor. how do you assess that? the counter point to that, do you ...

Environment, the united states would be in a position to rapidly deploy additional brigade combat teams, logistics, medical, aviation, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, transportation and additional capabilities into europe. again, i want to reinforce that as of now the decision has been to put them on higher alert. when i say heightened alert, some of these forces were already on a heightened posture, readiness to deploy posture and the secretary decided to make it even more -- sho...

Officers charged with civil rights violations in the killing of george floyd. and in arizona, why one voting rights group is investing six figures to unseat democratic senator kyrsten sinema. uh. and we begin with the latest on the rising tensions between russia and ukraine. democratic aides tell nbc news there will be two classified briefings today for congressional leadership aides and committee staff on the situation in ukraine. full briefings for lawmakers are expected next week, as the ...

Activation of the nrf or a deteriorating security environment, the united states would be in position to rapidly deploy additional brigade combat teams, logistics, medical, aviation, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, transportation, and additional capabilities into europe. again, i want to reinforce that as of now the decision has been made to put these units on higher alert and higher alert only. no decisions have been made to deploy any forces from the united states at this time,...

Deteriorating security environment, the united states would be in a position to rapidly deploy additional brigade combat teams, logistics, medical, aviation, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, transportation and additional capabilities into europe. >> now u.s. president joe biden says he and his european allies are on the same page after all of these urgent talks with the group discussing preparation to impose massive consequences if moscow takes military action. >> i had a very, ver...

Ukraine. or even engaging in wider missile deployment tox across europe. but russia, at least publicly, is demanding far more. they want a restructuring of the current situation -- the current security environment in europe. they want nato to shrink. they want guarantees that nato will never expand to include ukraine, never expand to include georgia. and they want nato to go back to a position it was in, close to the end of the cold war, when eastern europe and the baltic states were not part of...

Force, or kirby gave two other hints as to what might warrant a deployment, if other situations develop, he wasnt specific there or if there is a deteriorating security environment. >> that might lead the u.s., that is defense secretary lloyd austin and joe biden to deploy these 8,500 troops to the u.s. but key is these are part of the nato and the response force which makes up some 40,000 troops multi-national across nato allies. but also the -- i apologize, i want to get the wording right, the...

But does putin even want to de-escalate? has he gone too far, does the united states think? >> i think thats a wide open question at this point. if russia is using diplomacy essentially as a pretext for the military action it wants to take or if russia is open to a diplomatic path to de-escalate the situation, we have put real serious ideas on the table, concerns that we have about russian behavior and steps that we could take we think would improve the broader security environment in europe in ...

Some small arms, so a various amount of both lethal and non-lethal aid are in that $200 million package thats now being delivered to ukracht its also very important to point out where we are in this situation, craig, and that is that russia continues to flow more forces in to the border area around ukraine, so they are not de-escalating, but, in fact, they are escalating the situation just in the past few hours and days. we heard a little bit about that from press secretary john kirby yesterday ...