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In the prepare to deploy orders or are they completely separate because they are already scheduled deployment? one other. are there more -- are the troops that are going, are they under nato or are they unilateral u.s. troops? >> let me see if i can rubber those. the troops i'm talking about today will be going under u.s. command, but in the case of romania, we know that the french are going to be preparing to deploy troops there and we will find ways to couple meant that force presence. again, and full consultation with romania. i would not describe these as it unilateral moves. this is a bil...

Brigade in the deployment orders or are they completely separate because they're an already scheduled deployment? and then one other -- are there more -- are these troops that are going, are they under nato or are these all unilateral u.s. moves? thank you. >> let me see if i can remember all those. the troops that i'm talking about today will be going under u.s. command, but as i said, in the case of romania, we know the french are going to be preparing to deploy troops there. we will find ways to complement that force presence, again, in full consultation with romania. i wouldn't describe th...

Think ukraine should be very concerned. as for the baltic states, understandably, they are a lot more nervous. this is a russia which is showing its readiness to use military force. but one of the reasons i think you have seen nato or nato' members begin to increase their force presence in places, like poland and lithuania and romania, is to make very clear that nato will defend nato' territory, and they are trying to make that very clear message to moscow. >> yeah, good point. a lot of people have said, you know, let's go back to basics. why now, given the risk-reward calculus, what is it tha...

Countries, they have much bigger militaries than we do, they have much bigger force presence, much bigger countries than many small countries in the world, but at the end of the day, people do not want to live under authoritarian governments. they want to live in freedom and they want to have democracy. and i think that while they showed this big demonstration of brotherly love yesterday, it is because i think they know that they have got to cling together as some of the only authoritarian places in the world, and we shouldn't take the bait. what i do think is we need to make sure if russia pu...

Question of, okay, we have successfully gotten rid of the caliphate. what's going to happen to what we know on the map now is syria? >> well, syria is being kind of divided up between spheres of influence, by turkey, by russia, iran will be involved as well. and of course, there's another battle raging in the south between hezbollah aligned forces and israel. so the future of syria is very much in doubt. i think we were holding together the balance of power with our force presence there. we were a trip wire against turkey coming across the border. that's now over, and we don't know whether or ...