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Level. thank you for that. ahead, we are all back with you, jon wolf and i back with emergency leaders, how can they deter vladimir putin and prevent ukraine from russia's brutal aggression? our cnn continuing coverage is next.
And so one of the things that alliance leaders are talking about today, what should it look like? here in the united states, i mean, we had before the war 80,000 troops in europe, we now have 100,000. those are on temporary deployments. we are in the pentagon looking at what the future footprint ought to look like to make sure we can bolster nato's eastern flank. >> i look at the numbers as a former pentagon correspondent myself very closely. along the ukraine border, the eastern european nato allies, the number of troops have gone from 20,000 to 40,000 within a matter of a few weeks. >> that'...
Appreciate, understand what is going on, how many thousands of russian troops has are getting killed in this war? >> mr. putin, shall we say is in control of the information space. they did let out a statistic the other day, i can't believe it was intentional, but popular support for what russia is doing so far at least is high. and my own prediction at some point is the russians may -- rather than put more troops into ukraine, might take troops out to reduce casualties and instead simply focus their war effort on the continued bombing, using missiles and the like of civilian populations. >> a...
Any air space riissues. there haven't been any close calls with nato aircraft. it is nice to know we have that line. so far it is still working. >> our chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is reporting right now, i think this is also pretty significant if you see what is going on that there are -- there is at least some discussion at a very, very serious level what does the u.s. military -- what does the biden administration do if the russians were, god forbid to use chemical, biological or nuclear weapons? a whole group out there that discusses this all the time, right? >> i think,...
Would be a significant response. not just from the united states, but the international community. it is better if we don't speculate about what that response would be, we haven't seen the indications now, and, again, we continue to cull on mr. putin to do the right thing now, end the war. he can end it right now. >> you're not going to explain what the response would be because it follows this concept of deliberate ambiguity, let the russians worry about what that response would be. >> we'll just stay away from speculating. >> without speculating at this point. admiral kirby, thank you for jo...