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Flank. and we talked specifically about what we care deeply about in terms of our commitment, the united states' commitment to article 5. i have said it many times, i will say it again. the united states commitment for article 5 is ironclad. the united states is prepared to defend every inch of nato territory. the united states takes seriously that an attack against one is an attack against all. we are here today to restate that commitment but also to do what we must do to reinforce our support of poland. and our allies through the eu and nato alliance. in particular, as it relates to troop de...

Bold action that has been taken through the nato alliance to do what is necessary to sandy clear signal that there will be, as we promised, severe cost and consequence for russia's aggression to the point that we have now seen a free fall of the ruble. to the point that we have now seen that russia's credit rating has been rated as junk and what we know to be real economic consequence to russia because of putin's war. as you know the president of the united states also made the decision to do what was necessary in terms of the purchase of russian oil in the united states, again, we will contin...

>> pete: that's right. from his point of view, very little consequences internationally from the americans for doing so. and as a result, could have been a predicate and staging area for what we are now seeing. >> brian: keep in mind he takes georgia, gets some sanctions able to keep those two provinces moves in 2014. takes portions of the ukraine. really no problem. so then he says to himself why not just invade and take the whole thing. >> pete: you look at this whole timeline, brian, what vladimir putin clearly under estimated was the sense of independence that ukrainians have today away fr...

Kutcha he ends up taking over for about 10 years. as they continue to push west, in comes vladimir putin and poison. >> pete: poison, that was in 2014. victorian covic. part of the orange it. russia denies it. he wanted. this is a key point comes into play. pro-nato expansion that becomes a key part of ukrainian politics starting in the 1990s, 2,000s, 2010. do they join nato or not. putin pushes russian stooges they get pushed out and ukrainian independence waffles back and forth. >> brian: as they rise up and remember john mccain in that reasoning. we cut to it a few times on "fox & friends."...

And she is demonstrating that depth of the trans-atlantic and [inaudible] demonstrating engagement and commitment of the united states to the security of nato's eastern flank [inaudibleage let me stress very forcefully there is no doubt whatsoever that united states and our other ally went framework of the north atlantic alliance and along with the entire free and honest world we will ukraine and we will try to do our best to make sure that ukraine can be defended. thank you very much madam vice president for coming. thank you. for our meeting today for the conversation that we have had we