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Ankara faces increasing pressure to choose between Moscow and Kyiv.

Dr. Dimitar Bechev is a lecturer at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies and a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe. He was previously a fellow with MEI's Frontier Europe Initiative.

To violate some of their commitments, like, for example, they're going to keep material that could be used for a weapon in country. it's not iran that's a nuclear threat. because president trump engaged in diplomacy with north korea, without requiring a trefreeze o their nuclear program, they probably have more nuclear weapons today than a year ago. at the same time, president trump has withdrawn from arms control agreements with russia which means they can probably produce and pre-position previously banned weapons more readily than before. china is continuing to modernize their nuclear force...

How nato spending and how the nato budget is funded. nato members are supposed to pay 2% gdp. the u.s. spends more on nato spending because we have other priorities around the world. that again is our choice. there's something macron said getting less attention, christi, that president trump references in the tweet which is macron grouped the united states with russia and china as threats. imagine france, one of our allies in world war i, world war ii and through the present day is grouping us with russia and china. russia tried to murder someone using chemical weapons on european soil, china ...

Is andy russian. >> translator: diplomatically speaking if i can put it in two words it's of an attacking nature. and if we use military terms it's no doubt aggressive. we need to take that into account into our practical work. >> reporter: trump mentioned russia as a challenge to strategy on monday. >> we also face rival power, russia and china, that seek to challenge american influence, values and wealth. >> reporter: the document which his national security team wrote went further saying putin's government is using, quote, information tools, in an attempt to undermine democracies. there are...