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Telling statement on thursday while visiting lithuania. >> madame president, mr. president, the reason i travel the baltics was to reaffirm our mutual commitment to collective defense. president obama wanted me to come personally to make it clear what you already know. that under article 5 of the nato treaty, we will respond. we will respond to any aggression against the nato ally. >> earl, can you explain how this concept of collective defense works? >> sure. nato in its inception, it was supposed to be the counter to the soviet juggernaut. you can just look at any map and see how big it is a...

This is a wake-up call. for the euro-atlantic community, for nato and for all those committed to a europe free and at peace. this is the greatest threat to european stability and security since the end of the cold war. >> that was secretary-general of nato on wednesday. russian's military incursion leaves nato weighing its options to help ukraine. ukraine is boreded by many nato states including estonia, latvia and lithuania which joined nato in 2004. though president obama has ruled out u.s. military involvement in ukraine, keep in mind, it's not a nato member state. vice president biden made...