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Russian tool kit. it runs the gamut from a large conventional invasion of ukraine to these kinds of destabilizing activities in an attempt to topple the government. >> reporter: republicans including the top gop lawmaker on the foreign affairs committee warning president putin isn't taking the u.s. seriously. >> i think this has been a passive deterrence, right? i don't see putin changing his course of action. it's getting very aggressive. the noose is tightening around ukraine. >> reporter: jake, the white house says u.s. citizens in ukraine should leave because there are no plans at this tim...

Serious threatful will this potential troop deployment, could that change his mind? >> i think it helps. i'm glad the administration is finally listening. we've been urging them to do these joint exercise operations with nato, in these nato countries like poland, the baltic states, bulgaria. that would be a showing of deterrence. prior to this, it has been a passive deterrence. with respect to the 8,500 troops, remember, it is very conditioned on nato requesting, but secondly, only until after an invasion which, your analyst talked about president zelensky. his frustration, you're talking abou...

>> the near term is now. ambassador, we're fortunate you're still here. we learned what's happening. tell us what it means, what do you think? >> stephanie, i think it means that deterrence is working, that the active deterrence, not just saying we're going to do something if president putin sends those troops into ukraine, that's passive deterrence. active deterrence is when you actually take steps. when you actually deploy troops, and president biden is actively deterring president putin from that invasion. he is continuing the strong position that he and nato and president zelensky have tak...

Worked. your thought on that. >> a lot of talk and no action. no deterrence. passive deterrence at best. we've been advocating for active sanctions. it's an act of provocation even before an invasion. why did he wave nord stream 2 pipeline sanctions that congressman dated in the national security of the united states allows putin to build his pipeline in to europe? this was the beginning of this down fall. then we had afghanistan. putin looked at that and thought now is the time. president xi in china is doing the same thing. they have an alliance that we saw play out in the beijing olympics. ...

0 sure that personnel are safe amid this very uncertain time. national security officials are warning of war. the next few days are extremely uncertain, trace, sandra. >> sandra: trey, live in kyiv, thank you, and thank you for joining us. continuing coverage here on the fox news channel. i'm sandra >> martha: thanks very much. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum at fox news headquarters. a lot of briefings this afternoon on breaking news. the pentagon says that vladimir putin continues to advance his military capabilities and readiness. this just came moments ago that he's been told the day ...