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We'll stay in touch. with us to share important insights retired major general, the author of "hunting the caliphate." grateful for your time today. i want to start with the idea russia puts out one defense ministry showing some troops pulling back, perhaps -- perhaps -- nato has plenty of assets in the region to keep an eye on this. what is happening from u.s. military command post to essentially put vladimir putin's words to the test? >> good afternoon, john. it's slightly encouraging that russian military units may, in fact, be moving away from ukraine, but they're moving to positions whe...

Vladimir putin, will say or will, you know, kind of hold as true and that means that everything below him is even easier. so deception operations are engrained into russian kind of strategic operations. so the fact that they're saying one thing about withdrawing forces and in fact they're -- merely repositioning forces is not a surprise. yesterday they kind of try to sense some interesting signals about the first tank army starting to retro grade back to bases. there is no evidence to suggest that. it seems like more repositioning. and the only forces that may be going back to bases are the on...

I studied russian military history as well as russian military doctrine for decades, and in some way this is classic in its deception operations called maskarovga, which is at the technical operational strategic level. so it does appear that the movement of troops away from ukraine could in fact be deception. we have seen through satellite imagery and other imagery the movement of a number of forces. in fact, an increasing of forces, over 150,000 surrounding ukraine. so i tend to agree that it looks like an invasion is imminent. and part of that is because no matter -- we talk about off ramps ...

Information ops, they have a word for it. i hope i don't mispronounce it. it's moscowrovka, it's the deception operations they continually conduct not only in their military affairs, but in their state affairs were. as a military guy having served in europe for a long part of my career, we expected that. wechever i dealt with the russians as a senior commander in europe, we knew that was on their mind to push us in the direction we didn't think they knew about. so you know, all of this is typical russian activity to me and some of the things we brought up throughout the campaign while one of t...

Terrible accident. they didn't try to hit a commercial airliner. if it it's not the sort of hinge moment in this crisis for russia and the separatists. >> quickly, general mccaffrey, the united states' response is sanctions enough? >> i think it's primarily a european problem. it's a localized conflict. it's not going to end. i think michael has it entirely right. there's going to be a giant struggle for the cities of eastern ukraine. these are russian people that live there. i've, in and out of the region and there's clearly a difference in view of the national central government. so we have ...