and also sending in f-35s and apache attack helicopters. what does this tell you? >> the military forces in europe, john, u.s. military forces under the command of u com, do this all the time. when i heard the president say that, that he's moving forces to the baltic countries, i have been there multiple times. the forces train there multiple times. this is not something new and it's relatively easy to go from poland to the baltics, from the baltics to romania and they practice all the time. the last year i was in command in europe, we did 400 different exercises in a year with 28 different countries that were in europe. that's not a big deal. but the interesting piece is it gives a little bit of safety and a feeling of camaraderie to the baltic countries, estonia, latvia, lithuania. they are the most concerned about this because they're right on the border of belarus, along with poland, so they see themselves in the cross hairs. especially when mr. putin says yesterday that he's taking over