immediately aspect the outcome in ukraine. certainly nato has the capability of increasing readiness. moving forces around within nato, the united states itself could move forces from the united states over to europe, but these things are going to be one and done type steps for the immediate future. there's not a lot to back them up. last year we had sequestration, this year the united states army really has one or two brigades in the homeland that are deployable beyond the ones that go to afghanistan. so we -- and i think everybody understands that, including the russians, whatever we do, it has to be something that seems credible. >> thanks for joining me. i appreciate your expertise. we're going to take a short break, when we come back, we'll have more on the ground with ben wedeman.