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Up? >> reporter: there is a lot of resilience. we do stories about that. you see it, but you could really feel it. it is palpable. people here believe that so far the ukrainian military has done an extraordinary job resisting. they are encouraged by the people power that has come out across this country where crowds will just walk up to occupying russian troops and call them occupiers to their face. in some cases the russians are firing over their heads. there was a famous video where a russian soldier was walking through a crowd of ukrainians and he was holding two grenades in his hand, a mes...

Haven't mentioned so far that is important in the whole calculus is nato, the alliance. here the good news is the alliance is energized, it is flowing troops, the nato response force, tens of thousands of troops, ships, aircraft, moving toward the borders of russia. that is what vladimir putin hates. by the way, discussions in helsinki, finland, stockholm, sweden, about bringing those two very high-end military, high-end techno democracies into the alliance. it would be a nightmare for vladimir putin. that's the third leg of the "what can we do after economic and resistance to ukraine." the th...

Borders of the russian federation, strengthening. finally, joy, look outside nato. i wouldn't be surprised to see, for example, finland and sweden, two super combat powers, powerful economies, techno democracies knocking at the door to join nato. the nato membership card looks pretty good these days. putin is creating exactly his own worse nightmare. >> i wonder, ambassador taylor, for china this feels like an opportunity. you know, if they're going to be two sort of great powers, if you're playing the great power game, you know, there's no reason for china to help save russia. why save them? ...