that means that nato now considers the nato-russia founding act is obsolete? or are nato member states still bound by this document? thank you very much. sec. gen. stoltenberg: nato leaders decided today and stated clearly the fact that russia has walked away. nato-russia founding act is based on core principles enshrined in the founding act. that is, respect to the integrity and sovereignty of all countries, including of course ukraine. this has been violated not once but twice. it has been constantly violated since 2014 with the annexation of crimea and the continued presence of russian forces and russian-backed separatists in eastern ukraine. this was further violated with the invasion of ukraine the last couple of days. so, what we see is that russia shows no respect for the nato-russia founding act. if you have a founding act between two partners, nato and russia, and one part does not respect that agreement, the agreement does not work. it does not function. it does not help us to improve our relationship with russia. even if the founding act has good pr

whether it belongs to nato, or not belong to nato. nato respects those decisions, regardless if it is a yes or no to joining nato. we value close relationships with finland and sweden. we see how closely we work together and increase our ability to operate together in profitability and also close political consultations. therefore, i have invited sweden and finland to the russian -- nato summit tomorrow, the nato summit tomorrow. so at the nato summit, we will have sweden, finland, and the presidents present showing they are very strong unity. >> we we will go to radio. >> if i may, follow a question. when exactly these high regiment sentiments of the nato response force may be deployed? is it after the summit for tomorrow? >> first of all, we have already deployed thousands of troops. two poland there are more u.s. forces, there are forces from the united kingdom, there also nations deploying more forces to poland. and also to other countries in the eastern part of the alliance. warships in the baltic sea. and more lanes protecting o

nato ally. because for nato allies there are absolute guarantees and enshrined in nato and we demonstrate that commitment, the commitment to our security guarantees by increasing the presence in the eastern part of the presence in the eastern part of the alliance. yesterday we activated our defence plans to make it possible to deploy the nato response. possible to deploy the nato response-— possible to deploy the nato resonse. ., ., ., i. ., response. how worried are you about further action? _ response. how worried are you about further action? you _ response. how worried are you about further action? you said _ response. how worried are you about further action? you said in _ response. how worried are you about further action? you said in the - response. how worried are you about further action? you said in the newsl further action? you said in the news conference he wanted to defend every inch. does that mean intelligence you have suggest nato members are at risk? mil you have suggest nato

>> nato is not the threat. nato is a defensive alliance. we have proven for more than 70 years that we are there to protect and defend. we are concerned about what we see that russia is modernizing its nuclear capable missiles. we have seen this in belarus. these are dual capable missiles that could carry nuclear warheads. the reason why we are concerned and why we have been concerned for long time is because this is the path that has taken place over several years. one of the most important agreements of nato allies that they have reached and made with russia was the treaty banning all intermediate range weapons globally but also in europe. and russia deployed missiles and that has undermined it security. we are taking the necessary decisions and steps to be able to protect all of our allies including close by russian nuclear investments. >> thank you. could you to us was tap -- what has to happen on the ground so that nato can state those are real fines of de-escalation? russia is apparently about to hand over their response to the u.s. p

a hideous attack we see in ukraine as speed over onto any nato allied country, or the nato allies have provided support to ukraine in many different ways over her last year. suspicious, instant 40, and ne does help them with the cyber defenses. we also help them with the width on different trust funds for different activities and, and on top of that and, and different capacity building measures to help them to, to strengthen or including their naval forces. i'm and, and, and other elements of their own forces. but then on top of what nato's done as the nines nato allies also provided and military equipment, including defense, weapons and, and all the types of support training. and it will be a national decision in what way allies continue to prod as support so. so that's, that's what an in for the individual nato allies to decide. or the confliction is extremely important for us. ah, that has been context between our military commanders and the on the on the ocean will continue to reach out to them to make sure that we do everything we can to ensure the conviction will next go to housi

. >> nato secretary-general also addressed reporters at nato's headquarters. he said there's no sign of a russian military withdrawal or de-escalation along the ukraine border pretty said russia's military buildup on the border is continuing. good afternoon. nato allies a continue to strong diplomatic efforts to find a political solution to these crisis. triggered by russia's a buildup in and around ukraine. despite moscow's claims we have seen no sign of withdrawal or de-escalation so far. on the contrary, russia's a build up appears to continue. we continue to monitor developments very closely. we call on russia to do it they said and withdraw their forces. from the borders of ukraine britt this will be an important first step towards a peaceful political solution. today we met with our close partners ukraine and a georgia. we address the continue threat of russian aggression and made a strong political and practical support for both countries.e nato and allies are helping a crane boost its ability to defend itself. self-defense is enshrined in the un charte

those nato members. the board of russia we have, for example, 6 f, 35 jet fighters, stuff like just they have been sent to the baltic nations and also space out of remain. yep. and that's by the u. s. and the u. s. of also send extra apache helicopters in the last 24 hours 20 going to the baltic nations from germany where they were based and 12 going to poland from greece where they were previously based on the number of troops, the number of us troops now in europe. ready another $7000.00 on thursday, spring, $15000.00 extra just in recent weeks, bringing a total of $90000.00 us troops currently in europe. so this is the one thing that to be put in said he didn't want, was nato expanding, closer to his board is what his actions mean. it's continuing, we'll let this meeting order even more trips to the area. that's not clear. but the one thing that is clear is that none of these trips will actually be going to ukraine, despite the increasingly loud calls from ukraine for extra help. that will not be mili

are you inferring that the troops would immediately transition to nato control should nato decide to activate the response force? another question about, the deployment ongoing right now. had they been extended beyond the current and state of this week? thank you. mr. kirby: i don't have anything on those teams. i can ask about that. my hunch is no, there's no plans to extend them. let me check on that. to your other question, these forces are going under bilateral arrangements between the united states and the country -- countries in question, in this case poland, romney and romania. they will remain under u.s. chain of command. that is a separate and distinct mission than the nato response force, which we've talked about our contribution to that being the bulk of that 8500 we talked about last week. that would be under nato command and control structure. i'm not going to hypothesize or speculate about the future for these u.s. units and what it is going to look like going forward. there's so expectation at this time that they would necessarily have to fall under some sort of nato c

and so we know that he also bristles at nato, about nato. and he has made no secret of that. we are making it clear that we're going to be prepared to defend our nato allies if it comes to that. hopefully it won't come to that. nobody wants to see -- as i said, conflict is not inevitable. there's no reason for there to be armed conflict, in ukraine or anywhere else on the european continent. and mr. putin can go a long way to serving that end by taking seriously the proposes that we have put forward, diplomatically, and by de-escalating by moving some of those troops away. >> but is there any evidence that he plans to -- that anything you're seeing, that suggests those troops that are outside ukraine might carry on to poland, romania? >> what we see, jen, is clear evidence, every day, that he continues to destabilize the environment by adding more forces in the western part of his country and along belarus. in addition to additional naval activity in the mediterranean and in the north atlantic. so he clearly is providing himself many options, lots more capabilities, for exact

of nato?_ troops in ukraine when it is not a member of nato? that is difficult. this is a matter _ member of nato? that is difficult. this is a matter of _ member of nato? that is difficult. this is a matter of discussion - this is a matter of discussion between ukraine and nato. at the moment i do not see any move in that direction. ~ ., ., , ., moment i do not see any move in that direction. ~ ., ., i. , direction. what would your message be to vladimir— direction. what would your message be to vladimir putin _ direction. what would your message be to vladimir putin right _ direction. what would your message be to vladimir putin right now? - direction. what would your message be to vladimir putin right now? 0ne| be to vladimir putin right now? one messaue. be to vladimir putin right now? one message- one _ be to vladimir putin right now? owe: message. one should de—escalate and take trips away from the border of ukraine, and start diplomatic way of negotiation with nato, and the us, how

nato. we are an alliance of 30 democracies standing as one. we will protect our people and our values. democracy will always prevail over autocracy. freedom will always prevail over oppression. and then i am ready to take your questions. >> thank you. secretary-general, we all know that nato will not fight for ukraine. but don't you think it's time for nato to build onto putin's coalition? thank you. >> nato stands in solitary with ukraine and nato allies are enforcing severe costs on russia for their reckless invasion of ukraine. nato allies come in nation with european union partners all over the world, are now imposing severe economic sanctions on russia to demonstrate that we -- follow-up on what we said and it will be a high price for russia to pay. nato allies for a very long period of time have also provided support, military support, to ukraine and help ed them to build russia stronger and much better trained armed force today than ukraine had in 2014. and i'd like to recognize the

and nato really doesn't have any. all that, i mean, the united states kind of at least address that issue, but not in a very effective way in their response. but the indivisibility of security means precisely what is what he said, which is nato cannot go on expanding at the expense of russia and was threatening russia. and so now you move nato in the us, not really addressing brushes concern to us at least, and said ok, well we're willing to talk about the deployment of short range, intermediate range miss. we promised we're not going to launch. we're not going to station miss on ukrainian territory, but they don't address rushes or interest or directing it, but they promise not to expand one into the kremlin and you get this letter, which of course is a far more nuanced in the ridiculous nonsense. the nathan replied, but you know, if i were in the kremlin, say, when you, you said years ago that you wouldn't do it and you did this and that in this, in the me, it must be people on the credit must be exasperated and the

leads nato in s tony appeared you contribute to nato's air policing and an aircraft carrier leads nato's maritime force. all of this shows we will defend and protect our allies. we also have diplomacy with nato leaders working to get russia to de-escalate. i welcome your support to ukraine and your recent contact with president putin and the foreign secretary of moscow today. this morning, i have sent a letter to the foreign minister reiterating my invitation to russia to continue our dialogue in a series of meetings to find a diplomatic way forward. we are prepared to listen to russia's concerns and ready to discuss ways to uphold and strengthen fundamental principles of u.n. security that you all have signed up to appeared we have proposed neutral briefings on exercises and nuclear policies, ways to increase transparency and reduce risks in military activities. reduce space and cyber threats and serious conversation on arms control, including nuclear weapons and ground-based intermediate and short range missiles. these areas present an agenda for meaningful dialogue. nato will not comp

leads nato's battlegroup in estonia. you contribute to nato's air policing. and the aircraft carrier hms prince of wales leads nato's maritime high readiness force. all of this sends a clear message that we will defend and protect all allies. we also have active diplomacy right across the alliance, with nato leaders working to get russia to de-escalate. i welcome your support to ukraine. as well as your recent contact with president putin, and the visit of foreign secretary truss to moscow today. this morning i have sent a letter to foreign minister lavrov, reiterating my invitation to russia to continue our dialogue in a series of meetings in the nato-russia council to find a diplomatic way forward. we are prepared to listen to russia's concerns, and ready to discuss ways to uphold and strengthen the fundamental principles of european security that we have all signed up to. we have proposed mutual briefings on exercises and nuclear policies. ways to increase transparency and reduce risks in military activities. reduce space and cyber threats. and a serious c

leads nato's battlegroup in estonia. you contribute to nato's air policing. and the aircraft carrier hms prince of wales leads nato's maritime high readiness force. all of this sends a clear message that we will defend and protect all allies. we also have active diplomacy right across the alliance, with nato leaders working to get russia to de-escalate. i welcome your support to ukraine. as well as your recent contact with president putin, and the visit of foreign secretary truss to moscow today. this morning i have sent a letter to foreign minister lavrov, reiterating my invitation to russia to continue our dialogue in a series of meetings in the nato-russia council to find a diplomatic way forward. we are prepared to listen to russia's concerns, and ready to discuss ways to uphold and strengthen the fundamental principles of european security that we have all signed up to. we have proposed mutual briefings on exercises and nuclear policies. ways to increase transparency and reduce risks in military activities. reduce space and cyber threats. and a serious c

in the meeting today with _ nato. thank you. in the meeting today with nato _ nato. thank you. in the meeting today with nato leaders, - nato. thank you. in the meeting today with nato leaders, it - nato. thank you. in the meeting today with nato leaders, it was i nato. thank you. in the meeting| today with nato leaders, it was a very strong message of unity. a very strong message of resolve, that we need to stand together, not only in words, but also in deeds. so we agreed a strong statement calling on russia to stop the attacks on ukraine to withdraw its forces, but also, we agreed to continue to provide the support to ukraine and also continue to strengthen our presence in the eastern part of the alliance to prevent any attack on a nato allied country. we have a defensive presence in the east. we are increasing our presence, not to provoke a conflict that to prevent one. as long as there is no doubt about nato's readiness to protect and defend all allies and our commitment to the core message, the couric task for nato, an attack on one ally will be regarded as an attack on a

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yeah, yeah, they'll open up the nato. busy russia who, fe in, in brussels, that you know, you know, that's about their throwing, i guess, i'm sorry, go and jump in on. i was just going to say, i keep purpose. i think on this it talks to begin with is that even the commission, if they get a mission from the united states, that they don't have to be a threat to russia? i think that in, on his own would be a great victory. because if you listen to michael, mike, also the world essentially saying this is no way they do different russia. but if this is the case, if russia never reacting to nato that mean no, the west can never be a threat to russia. that means all the rushes policy can only be driven by internal ideas. which means you know, dream on restoring the soviet union put in a democracy, trying to hold on to power. and again, these are the only arguments to have because to count it well if it's only internal reasons for russia to do this, maurice and never reacting tomato. these are kind of the silly arguments you get.

so, given that ukraine is not a nato member, is the, the nato plan to sort of stand by and watch this happen while i'm arming its own eastern defenses. i won't lie. it's a question i asked in that briefing myself. because again, this news is, is absolutely just so breathtaking li, bad for ukraine, that it's, it's hard to imagine that people are tracking this and not able to do anything about it limited by the constructs of, of the situation. the fact that ukraine is not anita member. and so no, no nato allies are going to go fight on the ground for ukraine. they've given them defensive weapons. they've given them training. but, but again, one of the, one of the points that was made was that ukraine is no longer in control of its own air space. so that is a huge deficit in ukraine's ability to defend itself. but the nato is not going to to defend ukraine. so what they're looking at now here at nato headquarters is how to make sure that this instability, the insecurity. the aggression does not spill over the borders of ukraine, into nato territory, into the baltic states, into, into pol

because he did not like nato. he wanted to destroy nato. biden got those countries working with them and believing in him. he is not embarrassing them with foolish rhetoric. he is friend of democracy. that is what we need. that is what everybody wants. host: we will go to john in salem, illinois. caller: good morning. we have as much right to avenge ukraine as russia has two invaded. -- in the 1990's and 2000's were interested in -- democracy in the middle east. that did not work at all. here we have in ukraine, a democracy and all we are doing is defending it. we are not trying to create one. the unfortunate thing here is that vladimir putin is going to have to save face. i do not know, he is pretty much going to have to have some military -- he is not going to withdraw with his tail between his legs. we have as much ukraine to -- we have as much right to defend ukraine as they have to invaded. in the last 20 years -- to punch vladimir putin in the face. really embarrassed him in front of the world. i do not understand the ambivalence. --

of the nato. so they're putting money to the nathan, he's not especially asserting their grain. so concerned made all the money and the reference, but it will not serve the credit and trust me. yes, but, but, but, but the general reaction to this image was demonstrated yesterday in the buddhist talk. i mean, make it almost impossible to spread this unity between the european union and in between nato, because germany was always considered to be a weak link. i mean putin has a special linked germany. he was not educated, but he worked and traced neza k g b officer and so on. he speaks german. so you always, always try to pull away germany from the rest of europe. and it's not as germany as the hungary, for example as well. orland was a close, i would say almost friend of putin and he was joining the swift. thanks as well. okay, i'm afraid that's what we're going to have to leave it. thank you very, very, very much for sharing your thoughts with me. i hope we've given our viewers plenty of food for

so nato is very much united in its response. host: should ukraine be part of nato? guest: nato declared in its 2008 bucharest communicate that at some point in the future, ukraine and georgia will become nato members. at the moment the position is that ukraine is not ready to become a nato member because of the conflict in the east. president zelensky has argued at the munich security conference that this is what ukraine once and he demands an answer from nato members but actually at the moment this is something very unrealistic and just not on the agenda that ukraine will become a member. host: one of the things we know that should happen in the next few days is a meeting between the u.s. secretary of state and the russian foreign minister. the hill newspaper has a story that briefly summarized what's going to happen. the state department announced on thursday that secretary of state antony blinken has accepted a meeting with sergey lavrov. blinken proposed the meeting and russia gave dates for late next week. the meeting will take place in europe provided there is

we are making the biggest contribution of nato —— to nato because we understand the importance of collective security. just as our european friends stood by us after the russian state used a chemical weapon in salisbury, so britain will stand by you. but we must accept that these measures by the uk under and allies, draconian sanctions, fortifying ukrainian friends, they may not be enough to deter russian aggression. it is therefore vital that we learned the lessons of 2014. whatever happens in the next few days and weeks, we cannot allow european countries to be blackmailed by russia. we cannot allow the threat of russian aggression to change the security architecture of europe. we cannot permit a new division of our continent into spheres of influence and we must now wean ourselves off dependence on putin's oil and gas. i understand the costs and complexities of this effort and the fact that it is easier said than done. i am grateful to chancellor schultz's assurances about this. the lessons of the last few years and of the obvious manipulation of european gas supply, it cannot be ignored.

so because there is nothing either in the nato, java, in the nato 3 or in the parish chapel, new euro, which come pals and obliges nato to include all the guy that wants to join, make them right. it is awful. they are lions to make decisions which confident, which inspires to join nato. a joyous is able to join him and which ones, which is which mobile. so on the russian perspective, when they go claims that you cannot simply can more exclude the prospect of your grade in georgia, joining nato in the future. it means simply that the alliance uses a breaking up short break. well, your discussion on some real estate with mark ah, ah, with i'm isn't showing in this the world's most over fish. see unsustainable exploitation of its fish dogs, which maureen biodiversity under great thread issue medicine is the lesson the given a quote on sure you understand the system you cut our system. i'm not going to pull nicky, careful with tech and want to put our lives despite the ease. promise is to end over fishing by 2020. the situation is changing to slow. well, i'm very disappointed with attriti

is the main security player in europe within, within nato. and i think russia will combine diplomatic negotiations with the united states also with france and germany. perhaps with the believe i am continuation will be of the miller to refresh because military pressure is the only way unfortunate lead to make russia or, you know, to make russian concerns. they consider that by the way, i do not agree fully. such a response would have been written even without reading the prosecutor to the mos. i think that there has been a certain movement on secondary shoes. but over the now, the united states are willing to talk about issues with russia, with which they have not been willing in the american response. they agreed, yeah. they real quick. what other tricks can we expect 25 seconds because it seems like there's no boxes empty because net prices and i show with such a red bull failure. i just saw some news stories from yesterday saying that there are, you know, u. s. mercenaries in the dom bass region, you baby stirring up trouble. so who knows

--nato give? sec. gen. stoltenberg: we see the full-fledged invasion of ukraine from multiple directions with air, sea and land capabilities. this is aligned with what our intelligence services predicted because we saw the buildup around ukraine with air, sea and land forces. we see them moving towards kyiv. we also see the rhetoric, the messages which is strongly indicating the aim is to change governments, to change and remove the democratically elected government in kyiv. we are in close contact with the government of ukraine. we are monitoring the situation very closely. it is still a fluid situation. what we have seen is that the ukrainian forces are fighting bravely and are actually able to inflict damage on the invading russian forces. again, it is a very fluid and evolving situation. nato allies expressed at the summit today that they provide support for ukraine. they are ready to continue to provide support to ukraine. military support, humanitarian support. i think we all have to judge how things

that's nato's job. but of course, when you see this instability, when you see people running for their lives, that also is going to have an effect on nato countries. and many of them have said they stand by ukraine. nobody's going into fight on the ground with the ukrainians . but we just lost terry there. unfortunately, she was just giving us the latest from brussels on that press conference for nato secretary general in stoughton book. some interesting words there from the secretary general saying that her democracy will always be something that they will protect as an organization that all of its allies, that all of its allies will work in a kinda in conjunction with each other. that piece to day has been shattered by the movements made by russia. unfortunately, it's a horrible situation that we've got to report to you today. i'm but let's try going back to brussels, where terry is standing by and see if that line is back up. um, it's a very oh, very fluid situation right now and nobody's telling me

meaning whether it belongs to nato, or not belong to nato. nato respects those decisions, regardless if it is yes or no to joining nato. we value close relationships with finland and sweden. it is important for nato and important for finland and sweden. we work with the north atlantic council and we see how closely we work together and increase our ability to operate together in probability and also close political consultations. therefore, i have invited sweden and finland to the virtual summit for nato tomorrow. so at the nato summit tomorrow, we will have sweden, finland, and the eu presidents present showing they are very strong unity. >> we will go to polish radio. >> if i may, a follow-up question two terry's question. when exactly these high regiment elements of the nato response force may be deployed? is it up to the leaders if you have the summit for tomorrow? thank you. >> first of all, we have already deployed thousands of troops. for instance, to poland, there are u.s. forces, there are forces from the united kingdom, there also n

nato has to respond. we continue to strive for a dialogue for de-escalation and we believe it is important to talk. nato believes in diplomacy. we believe in dialogue. therefore, we will call on russia. >> thank you. can you tell us more about the meeting with georgia in march? the second point mr. zelensky said today ukraine is welcome to nato, yet not all members of the alliance, how would you respond to that? >> we had a good meeting both the defense minister of georgia and the ukraine. i think in that meeting allies have support to both countries and wrote integrity to sovereignty. and support to georgia and ukraine in different ways. there'll be an exercise in georgia later on this year. of course, nato will be part of that. the black sea region is strategic importance for nato. what happens that there, we are very close partners of georgia and ukraine. to work closely with them it is important to us and important for partners. >> well, our position has not changed. the position remains. the focus an

nato? guest: you make a very good point, nato has basically absorbed the former warsaw pact eastern european states, but since the breakup of the former soviet union it has cut its forces. this is true of the united states and each of the european countries. the former warsaw pact states that joining nato never really joined forces to u.s. equipment. you have seen a steady decline in european and u.s. capabilities now for something on the order of nearly 20 years. and for all the talk in the previous administration, to the extent there was an increase in the expenditure, it did not reflect any major nato capabilities. after 2014, some important steps were taken to deal with the serious problems after the brick above the former cv union, but those only begin -- soviet union, but those only began or affected the limited ability to actually defend the forward area of nato in eastern europe. and they gave the u.s. virtually no capability to quickly intervene in the ukraine. host: the center for

, for example, that nato, the full force of nato, will be upon russia. and so don't even think about it. so it's really about deterrence. it's about preventing war. that's why we spend so much money on our military, and that's why we're deployed in so many countries all over the world. it's not to make war. i mean, i understand there have been times when we chose to make war and those have been controversial moments, but essentially, the reason we have a standing military, counter to what our founding fathers actually envisioned, is because after -- especially after world war i and world war ii, we said, my god, we have to stop these global wars. the only way we could come up with to stop them was to have a strong enough military, that we could stop war. and by and large, on the global level, we have stopped global wars. but that's really what's at stake here now. if putin continues, we may see this become a much nastier situation to include even by accident or on purpose, if he attacks a nato ally, a global war. so it's really dangerous. >> i invited yo

to join nato? even in 2010, when i was in the government, i was at the nato summit in portugal, and the president was there at the time. i encourage you to go back and read that he said that. he did not say anything about nato expansion. he had no concern about that. he was talking about missile defense cooperation between russia and nato. i could tell you those tidbits because it has not been a constant. what triggers concern about nato expansion? it is when there is a so-called color revolution. around the borders. that is what vladimir putin is worried about. back in 2002, i want to remind people, we were allies. allies is a too strong word, but we were collaborating after 9/11. that expansion was not a big event. rep. welch: what happened in 2014? do you want to give your point of view on this dr. question mark --, on this, dr. question octor? dr. kendall-taylor: if things were different, i don't and through be such a demand. it is notable to see that even in finland and sweden, there are peopl

nato country summit. we welcome you both to democracy now! reiner braun, let's begin with you. we are looking now at a post -angela merkel germany at this moment in time with this escalation of militarism in -- towards russia in regards to ukraine. talk about the german peace movement and where it stands rit now and what this new government is about, which is in coalition with the greens. >> the german government has two parties which are probably into russian parties. the greens and the liberals. and both a trying to push against a more aggressive behavior to russia. this includes no to the pipelines, which include the stop of sending military equipment to create -- this needs more confrontation. in the german peace movement is campaigning for peaceful relations to russia, pretty negotiation come in for filling the obligation of the agreement. the agreement which first said we need a new constitution in ukraine which makes the country much more federal. we need negotiations between the two parts of ukrai

how much of a help these nato deployments offer ukraine certainly show ukrainians, the value of nato membership that solidarity and willingness to support smaller countries and in times of tension. but of c, ukraine is not in nato and has no medium or short term perspective of becoming a member. so i think it's, you know, it's clear that ukraine will not get nature boots on the ground if russia were to learn some kind of intervention. i think a very important thing to bear in mind here is the scale. these couple of 1000 additional nato troops on the eastern flank are pretty, pretty small in terms of a comparison with the russians who have tens of thousands, if not more troops in the region, especially those russian exercises in belarus. nature general secretary stilton burg saying russia is planning, sent $30000.00 troops to those excise which are just of the board of the poland lithuania. so i'm not really comparable into the scale. yes it ukraine obviously needs or wants more direct military aid. it's appealing to germany. what difference would a german contribution make? why think

tomorrow nato will convene a summit. we will be there to bring together the leaders of 30 allied nations in close partnership to affirm our solidarity and map out the next steps we will take to further strengthen all aspects of our nato alliance. although we have provided 600 $50 million in defense of to ukraine just this year, this last year, let me say it again, our forces are not and will not be engaged in the conflict with russia in ukraine. our forces are not going to europe to fight in ukraine, but to defend nato allies and reassure the allies in the east. as i made crystal clear, the united states will defend every inch of nato territory with the full force of american power. and the good news is that nato is more united and determined than ever. there is no doubt that the united states and every nato ally will meet our article five commitments, which say that an attack on one is an attack on all. we have ordered thousands of additional forces to germany and poland as a part of our commitment to nato. tuesday, in

nato troops. this year, they plan no less than 10 drills, and it serves as a cover to increase the nato contingent in ukraine, especially in the efforts of airfields. it can be used to keep troops. the airspace for ukraine is open for reconnaissance and strategic plans of nato, drones that are used to monitor the territory of russia. the naval operations center built by the americans allows nato to use it as a port. it allows high precision weapons in the black sea, and our entire infrastructure on the black seacoast. some time ago, the u.s. wanted to build such infrastructure in crimea, but the population of crimea said no. we will remember that. now, i would like to remind you, in the 18th century, soldiers fork for the city and their bravery allowed the city to go to russia. in the 18th century, -- they want to forget this name. like they want to forget the deeds of famous commanders. ukraine itself would not have access to the black sea. you are renouncing -- be consistent. article 17 of the c

and another question about sir nato's about ukraine's potential joining of nato. the chancellor sholtes and cigar are the leaders of europe. not said that they are not a not ready to give guarantees that ukraine would not join nato, but as, as order by it may be there would be some sort of a moratorium, for example that sir ukraine would not join ada for the upcoming 10 years or so because that would be impossible to let him, i'm just following up with her. i neglected to love only because we discussed various subjects as for ah, alex, in the valley, my position is clear. his imprisonment. and if she is, sir, ah, thee the decision on his case? are there not correspond, sir, the legal to the legal standard? but it still wasn't working with me. so i guess i was given the chance to answer your question by or accounts. so the 1st thing about how russia is going to act according to the plan i used to work with the school. so why does this plan? so it all depends on the development of the situation locally who is going to see how it is going to develop? no one is it, it

second is the nato response force. this is a 40,000 troops strong response force that only the alliance can activate. we have obligations inside that, just like other countries, we signed up for a certain amount of contribution to that. it is not something that is off-the-shelf and you go grab it. you want to make it as short a tether as possible. they have not been given deployment orders, they have been told to be ready. in case the alliance activates that. as for ukraine, you are right. the principal threat right now from a military perspective is from russia on ukraine. which is why we continue to provide security assistance material for the indian armed forces. another shipment arrived on friday. there is more in the coming days. the brits do, the canadian zoo, trainers on the ground to improve the confidence. it is a multi tiered approach. the president has been clear, we are not going to see american troops on the ground in combat with the russians in ukraine. he has made clear that is not on the table. what we

nato allies are doing the same. germany took steps to halt the nord stream 2 gas pipeline from russia, something only a few weeks ago the country seemed hesitant to do. germany's new chancellor olaf scholz called vladimir putin's actions a serious break of international law. now there are also real concerns the unmarked military vehicles that began arriving in the streets of eastern ukraine overnight may only be the beginning after declaring the regions of luhansk and donetsk as independent states, vladimir putin announced he would recognize the breakaway regions, a much larger piece of territory than russian-backed separatists currently hold. adding to all of that tension putin received approval from his parliament today for use of military force. so far, though, he has stopped short of announcing an immediate military operation. joining me now is nbc's matt bodner in moscow, scott perry in poland and peter baker. so, matt, i do want to start with you and what is going on in moscow. russia is calling these troops p

he even allowed a nato transit point to open on russian territory to allow nato to open up basically an easier path for nato to ship troops and material to afghanistan. they were joint russian nato exercises. there was constant dialogue. but as -- and nato kind of almost didn't have a point anymore and then he invaded ukraine and suddenly, nato was again an anti russian organization. and so much of this is a crisis of his own making, that he invented in his paranoid mind and he's doing everything to make a reality. a friend of mine in moscow pointed out that before 2014 and this is everybody has observed this but before 2014, ukraine was kind of split. it was this seesaw between the ukrainian speaking east -- west, which had a different kind of christianity in the east where people were more likely to be russian speakers and feel for the soviet union and the political system was a sea saw. one presidential election would elect a pro -- like one year would be a prorussia leader and next year would be a prowestern leader and would go back and forth and nato membership wasn't that popul

nato members to the east. we are all nato allies. and we stand as one. and we will always do what is necessary to protect and defend each other. moskow also wants to deny sovereign countries the right to choose their own path and their own security arrangements. for ukraine but also for other countries such as finland and sweden. and for the first time we now see beijing joining moskow in calling on nato to stop admitting new members. it is an attempt to control the fate of free nations, to rewrite the international rule book and impose they're own authoritarian rules of governance. the current crisis demonstrates the importance of the transatlantic relationship for european security. two world wars and a cold war has taught us that there's no real security in europe without the strong transatlantic bond. standing together in nato europe and america will continue to keep the peace and protect our democratic way of life as we have done for more than 70 years. nato is a defense alliance. we're not threatening ru

russian nato are at an impasse. both have presented their visions of pan european security. needless to say, there is no meeting of minds has diplomacy been exhausted? ah, to discuss these issues and more on joined by my guess, glen deason, and also he is a professor at the university of se or norway as well as author of the book, great power politics in the port industrial revolution. and in budapest we have george m, u l l e z, a podcast to read the gaggle which can be found on youtube and locals. are gentlemen cross up rules and effect, that means you can jump any time you want, and i would appreciate it. ok, let's start out with glen glen. as i said in my introduction, um, are we at the end of diplomacy here? at the end of negotiations or at the beginning of something? because we are obviously at an impasse. we have the leaked reaction to russia's proposal through a spanish media, which probably was intentional. the russians are not happy with it, at least a, as a reaction, not official reaction to it at this po

how concerned he is about nato. and this false belief that it is an offensive alliance aimed to contain russia or to threaten russia. again, false. but this is the narrative he's putting out there. and so, we want to make sure that our nato allies understand we take seriously our commitments to them. and so if they desire, they want additional capabilities, particularly in those eastern flank countries, to bolster their own self-defense, then we want to have that conversation with them and went to be willing to provide that for them. that's the unilateral movement and it is designed to ensure nato solidarity and quite frankly, to help bolster the capabilities of our allies. second and distinct from that is the nato response force. this is a 40,000 troop strong response force that only nato, the alliance can activate. we have obligations inside that just like other countries inside the alliance. we signed up for a certain amount of contribution to that. it is not something that's just off the shelf and you just go gr

and he went on to explain that, particularly nato member countries on the eastern flank of nato that would be poland, of course. but most particularly the baltic republics are very, very concerned about the harsh rhetoric that we've heard. and is, he said, this is not only an attack on ukraine. this is an attack on the entire security order, because we have heard of russia demanding that nato pull out its forces and its weaponry and infrastructure from fully half of the nato members. he said, those are, of course, the members that have joined since the fall of the berlin wall in that eastward expansion. that for mr. putin is such a red flag. so he went on to describe what this nato response force entails. thousands of troops. he said, i believe a 100 jets in constant readiness and several naval carrier groups as well. so air land see the same 3 prongs in fact that russia has been resorting to. and he said, and we are doing this to ensure that russia makes no miscalculation. we are prepared to defend, he said, all of our member states every inch of their territory. so a very, very cle