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Situation and they're going to keep going. >> christiane, you used the word unimaginable, which is appropriate. it's impossible to wrap your head around this. is this entire nation of 44 million people going to be under occupation? is the world going to sit and watch vladimir putin take over an entire country here? if you can get your head around that, then the issue is what happens next? is it possible that some of these other nations, these other nato nations, ukraine is not nato, but the baltic nations which are part of nato, could they be at any kind of risk from russia? if putin is willin...

Border and both of them said to me that they, without a proper sufficient response, could be russia's next targets. despite the fact that they're in the alliance, particularly when you go back to his address, his nation on monday where he described it as madness, these former soviet republics allowed to leave the ussr so quickly. i wonder, do you share their fear that nato allies would attempt to target them after this? >> well, they should fear this, but of course, this is why it was so significant that when president biden announced the initial sanctions against banks and individuals and so ...

That they will show that they have a deterrent effect on being the. the united states just announced yesterday that they are sending some more capabilities in fact that region. a couple of them that really stood out to me and the announcement were f-35s. some of the united states most advanced fighter aircraft. apache helicopters. 32 of these attack helicopters. that was very telling to me, it sends a signal to russia that the u.s. is bringing in this capability to pull on and some of those neighboring countries. these are the kinds of helicopters, as one u.s. official put it, they are tank ki...

Witness a joint power demonstration, a fire power demonstration, and really they gave us military vests, armored vests, helmets and threw us out there in the middle of the action to witness this joint military exercise. 13 different nations getting together for this. and a few apache helicopters flew overhead and at the end, two jets roared through the area as dignitaries watched from a distance. member nations point out this was preplanned before the russian invasion of ukraine but admit it made the exercise that much more real. >> so the current situation really helps us focus on our major t...

>> i think it makes it more real. >> despite what's unfolding in ukraine, these nato troops are focused on a mission preparing themselves to protect every inch of nato territory. the invitation from nato, they put our crew right in the middle of the military demonstration. anti-tank weapons were fired artillery blasted distant targets and then in rolled the tanks. [gunfire] >> after a show of force on the ground, attention turned to the skies. apache helicopters buzzed our position. [gunfire] >> followed by two jets roaring through the sky. these troops the exercises only further unify fate na...