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China's response to the crisis. jumanna caratachea is tracking the war. and jim bittermann in the european union. jim, a major shift for a lot of countries in europe coming to ukraine's aid. fill us in. >> reporter: absolutely, michael. in fact t as' a techtonic shift. germany says they are going to up their defense spending in general because of the invasion into ukraine. 100 billion euross to be committed over the next years to increase the german defense posture, something that the americans have been pleading for with the germans for decades, probably three or four decades along the line t...

Forces on high alert, i think it's the most extreme example of that. the view of u.s. defense officials talking to nbc news, our colleagues at the pentagon, is that this is likely saber rattling rather than a real side the vladimir putin has any intention of launching a new color weapon. we don't know what's his orders mean on the ground. we don't know how many additional warheads may not be on high alert. the united states does not comment on his defense posture, on the new color posture. so we don't know what the u.s. is doing in response to this. but, this is certainly, an unlimited moment ...

Targeting civilians. one could be forgiven that thinking that civilians are very much in the crosshairs, and the issue here, jonathan, is that at this war tips from its opening dates, its first salvos into a longer defense posture where the russians seem to be on the back foot, things are just getting more and more dangerous and that's because vladimir putin and his army are more frustrated. their morale is dipping and they seem more determine to win in the face of unification from the west and crippling sanctions from the west. he has nothing to lose. vladimir putin has bet the farm on this. ...

This may revitalize europeans to take the kind of forward leaning defense posture you advocated when you were secretary of defense. >> this is another one of putin's miscalculations. he's given nato a new sense of purpose and unity. increasing militar y forces he's driven ukrainians to be even more forward. >> secretary gates, stay with

That much about the core issue of national security. but today countries around the world that took security for granted, from canada to germany to japan, are thinking anew about their defense posture and forces. military security is only one part of the way in which politics is trumping economics. countries are searching for greater national security in their supply chains and economies more broadly. this is a trend that began some years ago from brexit to buy american, the policies being adopted by many of the most fervently free market countries are animated more by populous nationalism tha...