kirby said today. >> it strains credulity to think they would have this many troops along the border of ukraine and belarus simply for winter exercises. >> do you agree with that? >> of course. i'm surprised you guys in the media are letting them get away with this. usually if a politician does this, the debumpnked theory. whether they'll invade or not, that's another question. but that they're not preparing for engagement, that's a debunked theory. you don't move those kinds of troops and do what they're doing without it being a preparation for engagement. it is what the russians do. they lie. >> thank you. i go to the former commanding officer, of course, for europe.