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That eastern flank providing reassurance and deterrence. the u.s. also now watching to see what nato does next, if nato activates its reaction force, we could see more u.s. troops headed east. brianna? >> barbara, we know you'll be watching. thank you. all right, joining us now retired major general james "spider" marks, head of geopolitical strategy at academy security. spider, this is the map we have been looking at for days, 190,000 russian troops ringing ukraine. there's really a new focus this morning. >> there really is. here is where luhansk and donbas region we have been talking abou...

Moved in, and essentially took over that peninsula in 2014, without a shot being fired. and because the population hadn't seen destruction and devastation like we've seen recently, and because the population was more immune-able to joining russia, generally, historically, culturally, linguistically, i think they managed to pull off that referendum at the time. now, trying to do that now is a completely different thing. so russia peers to be, you know, going and that direction, at least feeling out the possibility of trying to stage some kind of political referendums that will give legitimacy t...

Endure. >> do you think this is a turning point in relations between russia and the west? do you think that period of post-war calm as come to an end? >> i think no. i hope not. >> reporter: he was right. the western backlash against a resurgent russia never came, until this. in 2014, protesters toppled a pro-russian president in neighboring ukraine, and putin moved quickly to secure russian interests. >> astonishing developments in crimea because without a shot being fired, russia has moved into the ukrainian territory. and despite international condemnation, effectively brought it under its ...

Zone. the big question is how far will they go? then as now the invasion provoked international scorn. but just after the short georgia war putin sees confidence, relations in the west would endure. do you think that period of post-war calm has come to an end? >> i think no. i hope not. >> reporter: he was right. the western backlash against a resurgent russia never came until this. in 2014 protesters toppled the pro-russian president in neighboring ukraine, and putin moved quickly to secure russian interests. what astonishing developments in crimea because without a shot being fired russia ha...

Walls of where there's truth and where there's not. a lot of what we are seeing here in the commission, a lot of this nefarious activity that seems to be coming from institutions and outside players, not knowing what is the truth and what isn't, what kind of playbook do you feel that trump's people and trump himself may have taken straight out of the kremlin? >> well, it's interesting because the russians developed an information warfare strategy back in the early 2000s that was develops by the chief of staff of the armed forces and it's known as the ger as mow of doctrines, an informing warfa...