nato's core responsibility, _ nato territory? nato's core responsibility, our - nato territory? nato's core responsibility, our main . responsibility, our main responsibility, our main responsibility is to protect and defend all nato allies. so 1 billion people in 30 different countries. and to ensure that we also do that now in a more dangerous security situation in europe caused by the invasion of ukraine by russia, we have increased the presence in the eastern part of the alliance, increased the readiness of troops and we are deploying more capabilities, especially to the eastern part of the alliance. so an attack on one ally will trigger a response from the whole alliance, and we will protect and defend every inch of nato allies' territory. when we see more military activities, when we see actual fighting going on close to nato borders, there is oyster risk for incidents and accidents. —— always the risk. therefore must prevent such incidents and accidents, and if they happen, to make sure that they don't spiral out of control and create really dangerous situations. we a

the nato charter has that people who could contribute to nato security and share nato's values are welcome to join in the future. it would be a mistake to come up with an artificial closing of the door to certain states but not others in terms of what nato does in the future. i will leave it at that. >> i have a quick question. if you had to guess today, given where we are with the conflict, as nato more relevant or less relevant given where we are? i'd start with you, kim. >> it is much more relevant. it caused nato to come zooming back as a powerful alliance. no other country in the world besides the united states have ever had this kind of strong alliance. it is remarkable. >> michael? >> vladimir putin has revived nato. >> this administration came in and they wanted to focus on china. putin has united nato, brought the united states back to seeing a role for itself in europe and nato is a stronger center. >> great. i would like to turn to our first questioner. i please remind the members that this is on the record. the operator will remind you. >> ladies and gentlemen, as a reminder to

concerning nato, nato allies are ready to increase military spending. it is very important for the future. -- for the future, in order to increase our capacity to defend ourselves and our allies. we will strengthen especially the eastern flank of nato. and that means we have for nato battle groups in this daily at -- groups in estonia, latvia, lithuania and poland. we doubled the groups from four to eight and there will be four additional battle groups in slovakia, hungary, romania and moldova. in general, we will increase the natural presence -- the nato presence in countries with more than 40,000 soldiers. 40,000 people will join already -existing nato forces here in the eastern flank. it is very important -- it is a very important result of our meeting yesterday, but only a preparation for the ordinary meeting of the heads of state of nato in june in madrid. this extraordinary meeting was necessary because of the russian war against ukraine. and we demonstrated our unity. missy: let's talk about latvia. how many nato forces are present in latvia? and

president levits: we have nato military personnel from 10 other nations. 10 other nato nations here. and we have several thousand from others, nato member states, and we have also of course our own military forces. so that's for the moment it is enough. but because of a change of the strategic situation in europe, we need more troops and we need to strengthen all eastern flank of nato and of course latvia is part of the eastern flank. and we will prepare our proposals so that we have more emphasis to defend fence, and -- defense, and of course for the employment of -- deployment of nato troops in our region. baltic region, but in general in the eastern part of europe. missy: it's interesting to see nato's leadership make these decisions following president putin's invasion of ukraine that many countries in eastern europe have been calling for years. we know the baltic nations have warn the west for a really long time about the threat of russia and the need to provide a stronger deterrence, posture in eastern europe. do you think leaders in western europe, in other parts of the trans-

concerning nato, nato allies already increased military spending. it is very important for the future in order to increase our capacity to defend ourselves. we will transcend the eastern flank of nato, so that means we have for nato battle groups in the eastern flank countries, in estonia, latvia, ukraine, and poland. they intend to double battle groups from 4 to 8 and there were be for additional cattle roots in slovenia, hungary, romania, and bulgaria. in general, we will increase nato presence in eastern flank countries with more than 48,000 soldiers. 48,000 people will join nato forces here in the eastern flank. i think it is a very important part of our meeting yesterday but it is only a separation for an orderly meeting of the heads of state of nato in june in madrid. this extraordinary meeting was necessary because of russian war against the ukraine and we demonstrated our unity. missy: let's talk about latvia specifically. how many nato portions -- forces are present in latvia and are you satisfied with nato's military presence in the baltic

and nato allies. they are sending altogether accounts under we haven't seen all that much movement yet there on that a stage for that press conference of again. so we're going to let you go gather some more impressions and will bring you back a little bit later in the show. and we have our chief political correspondent, lender crane with us. so looking at the bigger picture here, melinda, as we're waiting for that press conference with the sultan burke to begin some of the issues that we just talked about with alexandra. this is a difficult position in a way for nato allies, for you, member states to find common ground on pushing back adequately against russia, but also not engaging in a direct direct conflict with russia. particularly in the face of appeals from president zalinski of ukraine, saying you haven't sent us fighter jets. you haven't sent us enough. anti tank weapons you haven't sent us of the weapons that we can use to repel attacks from ships at sea. so very, very direct appeals to one n

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there is no threat from nato. nobody can possibly call while anything nato was done as a provocation to russia. whenever mister bruce has in mind, that's only in his mind, but he is an aggressive state. and one of the problem is coming out of this is there is no western stake coating united states that will ever again be able to deal with mister. rush wants to have a healthy relationship, rush is going to have to take care of it on leadership. we're going to discuss that also in a moment. i'd like to get your take on what happens next. but 1st work, signor, if you can just give us some context of this because why would natal want to move east in the 1st place? you know, since 99714 more countries have joined the alliance mainly in the east. well, it's not written, it's the one i repeat. what i said earlier. it's not that natal wanted to movies. it's the fact that there were countries in eastern part of europe that asked to join nato. so therefore there was an organic expansion. there was no great game plan to us,

of the nato. but the group i'm, we have doubled a number of battle groups in eastern part alliance. so not on the double the size, but those are double the number about the groups. close to $40000.00 troops on the delta dental command. and then on top of that, increase the presence by united states on others, on a, within the volatile arrangements. so until talented, this is a significant reinforcement. oh, our presence in the east including is the now where the air see and land forces on the we have, we are ready and we are there to protect on the fans, olives for it is to respond massively to in the potential effects attack against any nato ala country, this has already happened, so this is, this is this reinforcements as, as all, is taking place. and we will then also to morrow make decisions. and they declare those of a dead. we have deployed for more about the groups to to slot your hunger hungry bulgarian, on the, on, on the remain young. then these need toll suggest a more long term consequ

banking on nato being split. my earlier conversation with him in december and january it was clear he didn't think we could sustain this cohesion. nato has never, never been more united than today. putin is getting exactly the opposite what he intended to have as a consequence of going into ukraine. we have built that same unity with our european union and with the leading democracies of the g7. >> the leaders of the military alliance approved plans to send 40,000 more troops to eastern europe tackle what they describe as the biggest security crisis in a generation. four new nato battle groups are to be sent to the eastern flank to to slocum, hundred garry, bulgaria and romania. >> we are resetting nato terms and defense for the long term. with more troops,ith more air assets and more capability. we will increase the presence in the east and today we send four new battle groups and the leaders agree to provide options for a long-term reset of our presence, military posture in the alliance. >> nato is also steppin

nato and the u.s. previous impose no-fly zones such as iraq and bosnia and the 1990's as well as liby'as civil war in 2011. >> let's go ahead and bring our guests from kyiv, a member of the ukrainian parliament and deputy head of the parliamentary majority. from brussels, a senior fellow at the -- foundation in poland, also a former nato official. and from perth in australia, and associate professor of national security and strategic studies. a warm welcome to all and thanks for joining us on "inside stor " ." let me start with you today. you and i spoke two weeks ago on this program. at that time you were calling for a no-fly zone. what does it mean to you today that despite repeated calls from president zelensky and so many others in ukraine, officials in nato have continued to refuse to impose a no-fly zone? >> listen, i will tell you what no-fly zone means for ukrainians, innocent citizens. it means thousands of thousands of innocent ukrainians, women, children, elder people, will be saved. you kno

concerning nato, nato allies already increased military spending. it is very important for the future in order to increase our capacity to defend ourselves. we will transcend the eastern flank of nato, so that means we have for nato battle groups in the eastern flank countries, in estonia, latvia, ukraine, and poland. they intend to double battle groups from 4 to 8 and there were be for additional cattle roots in slovenia, hungary, romania, and bulgaria. in general, we will increase nato presence in eastern flank countries with more than 48,000 soldiers. 48,000 people will join nato forces here in the eastern flank. i think it is a very important part of our meeting yesterday but it is only a separation for an orderly meeting of the heads of state of nato in june in madrid. this extraordinary meeting was necessary because of russian war against the ukraine and we demonstrated our unity. >> let's talk about latvia specifically. how many nato forces are present in latvia and are you satisfied with nato's military presence in the baltic nations, specif

by nato, carried out by nato, is what we are supporting? we must be clear what a no—fly zone is. a no—fly zone means that somebody has to shoot on the planes which are not complying with that, som in fact, whose planes are going to be shooting down russian jets and russian bombers? if these are going to be nato planes then nato is going to be in direct war with russia. this is a direct implication of those who say that nato should police the no—fly zone. so, yes, we press for all the sanctions in all the european fora... but not the no—fly zone? we press for all military assistance to ukraine and, yes, i think we should be thinking about enabling, giving ukrainians the military hardware to enforce a no—fly zone. that's to say, to regain the skies. but it's very important, a no—fly zone is not a silver bullet, it's not a panacea. there are cruise missiles, there are artillery which the no—fly zone is not going to affect. ambassador, what do you think when you hear this, what's your response? i think that we need to start immedi

by nato, carried out by nato, is what we are supporting? well, we must be clear what a no—fly zone is. a no—fly zone means that somebody has to shoot down the planes which are not complying with that. so, in fact, whose planes are going to be shooting down russian jets and russian bombers? if these are going to be nato planes, then nato is going to be in direct war with russia. this is a sort of direct implication of those who say that nato should police the no—fly zone. so, we — yes, we press for all the sanctions in all the european forae... but not the no—fly zone? ..we press for all military assistance to ukraine and, yes, i think we should be thinking about enabling — giving ukrainians the military hardware to enforce a no—fly zone — that's to say to regain the skies — but it's very important, a no—fly zone is not a silver bullet, it's not a panacea. you know, there are cruise missiles, there are sort of artillery which the no—fly zone is not going to affect. let's be very clear about that. ambassador, what do you

ambassador to nato, julianne smith. she spoke with david ignatius about the russian invasion of ukraine. this is about 20 minutes. >> welcomes the washington post life. i'm david ignatius, columnist at the post. continuing our recent discussions of the war in ukraine i'm pleased our guest today is america's ambassador to nato, ambassador julianne smith . understandably ambassador smith has many engagements at nato headquarters and she'll only be able to join us for 20 minutes so i want to jump right in. thank you for joining us. >> happy to do so, thank you. >> let's start with some information on the situation on the battlefield. today'sreports suggest russian forces are continuing to attack hard from three sides . kyiv and karkiev have not been taken but the mayor of mariupol describes the situation as armageddon. i want to ask you what your assessment of your nato colleagues is about how long the ukrainians can hold these cities. >> first of all let me say that this is not exactly going as planned for russia's milita

he wants less nato at his borders, he's getting more nato at his borders. he wants to divide nato. he has actually united, is uniting nato. but there's still a limit as to what nato is willing to do. it stands ready to defend its members, but it won't be using its military power to intervene in ukraine. jonathan beale, bbc news, narvik, norway. sean corbett is a recently retired senior royal air force officer and the ceo of strategic advise company intsight global. these military exercises, how much we read into the significance those first of all? i we read into the significance those first of all? ~' ., we read into the significance those first of all? ~ ., ., ., . first of all? i think not too much at this stage- — first of all? i think not too much at this stage. as _ first of all? i think not too much at this stage. as you said - first of all? i think not too much at this stage. as you said in - first of all? i think not too much at this stage. as you said in the | at this stage. as you said in the clip, these were preplanned and would have been planned very much in advance.

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ambassador to nato, julianne smith. she spoke with "the washington post's" david ignatius about the russian invasion of ukraine. this is about 20 minutes. david: welcome to "washington post" live. i'm david ignatius. a columnist at the post. continuing our recent discussions of the war in ukraine, i'm pleased that our guest today is america's ambassador to nato, ambassador julianne smith. understandably ambassador smith has many engagements that -- at nato headquarters and only be able to join us for 20 minutes so i want to jump right in. ambassador smith, thank you for joining us. ambassador smith: happy to do so. thank you. david: so let's start with the situation on the battlefield. today's reports suggest that russian forces are continuing to attack hard from three sides, kyiv and carrive have not been taken but the mayor of mariupol in the south described the situation in his city as armageddon. i want to ask you, madam ambassador, what is your assessment and the assessment of your nato colleagues is about how long

nato summit. they do prove that there are, let's say, misunderstandings or not complete unity of how nato sees things about the out chrome dreamer outcome of the war. at the moment inside nato there are different complications and scenarios how they see the future going on. so nato allies focus on not tempt in the russian federation with some tactics. therefore, the question of lethal weapons supply orjust heavy weapons apply is not under discussion any more and i think i was one of the points being discussed. with the ukrainian ministry of defence and the foreign affairs minister. they spoke with mr bidenjust right now, the meeting finished a couple of minutes ago. so there are all so nato ally members who definitely support and saying that not only the defence weapons should be supplied to ukraine. in this regard with very thankful with the united kingdom position on the polish position. the discrepancy is that there are with inside the nato alliance, it was seen actually during the summit and t

and i, well, nato, of course, is, is very worried that this will spread to nato territory. they're also going to provide more capabilities for ukraine to battle, these kind of attacks themselves chemical, biological, nuclear, radiological, we don't know exactly what kind of support that will be, but the secretary general mentioned this several times. so once again, i, nato is, is building up along the eastern plank. and stilton berg said several times. this is now going to be what nato's future looks like. he has called this the new normal rushes instability. the instability created by russia's attack on ukraine is going to last for a long time and some of these troop reinforcement, some of these equipment reinforcements he said, are going to be long term now. terry, he was asked a few times by several reporter about possible red lines that could pull nato out of its defensive posture. and, and he made very clear that nato does not want to enter into a direct engagement here with rush. i mean, tell us more about what he said on that front. yes, nato does not want to enter i

but this is the nato general secretary. he was asked in two different arenas about the use of chemical weapons. first by andrea mitchell and then by lester holt. so take a listen. >> any use of chemical weapons would totally change the nature of the conflict. it will be a blatant violation of international law. and it will have wide ranging, severe consequences. >> do you take anything off the table when it comes to responding to chemical weapons? >> we are in a very dangerous situation. if i speculated about different options, i would only make it more dangerous and more unpredictable. my main message is we are there to protect and defend every inch of nato territory. >> i think the challenge that a lot of people have in watching what's happening, in the case of the u.s. invasion of iraq, the u.s. went to the united nations and said we know they have chemical and biological weapons and we suspect they have nuclear weapons. we have to act to top them from acting. in the case of syria, we know for sure they used chemical wea

if these are going to be nato planes then nato is going to be in direct war with russia. this is a direct implication to say that nato should police the no—fly zone. so, yes, we press for all the sanctions in all the european fora... but not the no—fly zone? we press for all military assistance to ukraine and yes, i think we should be thinking about enabling, giving ukrainians the military hardware to enforce a no—fly zone. that's to say, to regain the skies. but it's very important, a no—fly zone is not a silver bullet, it's not a panacea. there are cruise missiles, there are artillery which the no—fly zone is not going to affect. ambassador, what do you think when you hear this, what's your response? i think that we need to start immediately with air defence systems in ukraine and with providing assistance with airjets to ukraine from nato. we need them for yesterday. and that will be a decisive move by our partners. let's see what the audience think. put up your hand if you think nato should enforce a no—fly zone over ukraine to stop civilians being hammere

i was there in brussels and followed the nato summit, all 30 nato leaders were there as well. as you know, the current nato secretary general jens stoltenberg said any use of chemical weapons by russia in ukraine would flatly be unacceptable and in his words, stoltenberg, i'm quoting him now, it would totally change the nature of the conflict. is that the line drawn between where things stand right now potentially between and maybe god forbid some sort of third world war? >> i, with my deepest soul, hope that will not be the case, wolf, but i think what we could expect to see is increasing efforts by the nato allies to build up resilience to chemical attacks in ukraine and that is already going on. that's something that's talked about preparing that, if heaven forbid, they should have to deal with a chemical attack but i think the way in which russia has been piling up outrage against the international legal regime, this would only be renewed because russia is a member of the chemical weapons in theory, they agreed to ban chemical weapons so once again, they would be, i think,

when it comes to nato . they've already done a great deal of those nato countries individually have supplied weaponry to the ukrainians, but also they boasted their own defenses, those countries that are closest to russia. one of the things they going to be discussing at this meeting is making some of those changes more permanent. this is what the nato secretary general had to say. also, address them or long term consequences. long term other taishan, our alliance. how to further strengthen our, the terms of the fence and to remove any room for miscalculation or misunderstanding must go about our in this to protect them, defend all allies. and nato has the responsibility to ensure that this crisis do not escalate beyond ukraine. and that's also reason why we have increase the presence in houston pot reliance. so some of the things they're likely to discuss to recent incursions by drones into nato territory that attack in ukraine, but close to the polish border on a base where we believe that there were forei

so there are a couple things here. nato leaders, specifically us president joe biden has said that nato will protect every inch of its territory. so that's the number one priority on behalf of nato. now, countries bilaterally can do much more to help you crane rather than the nato alliance as a whole. you saw the united states approved in $800.00, a new $800000000.00 aid package to ukraine. that includes more javelins, more stingers helmet, pistols, rifles. there's talk about potential as 300 surface to air missiles from vakio, potentially going to ukraine. so the help here is more on a bilateral basis between countries rather than from nato as an alliance. now it's being said, the trans atlantic partnership appears to be stronger today than it has been in perhaps decades. and the latter mere putin has actually united the west again, do you agree with that? i absolutely agree with that. what's interesting about hooton's decision to invade ukraine is that it's partially driven by the desire for fewer nato troops on russia's border. the desire for ukraine never to join the alliance. ironi

it's the unity of nato. it thinks that happened within the european union that were unimaginable just 6 weeks ago. also the direct shift and german security policy that i mentioned. i want to say one word about motivation. so, i mean, in the end we, we don't know what seems to be to correct some of the what he thinks, mistakes that have been been made after the end of the cold war. and that he kind of wants to re unite soviet state, referring to ukraine, referring to bit a ruth, but off to georgia, mold and, and others. and this is why this is not only about ukraine, but this is really about defending the west and defending western values. throwing as we all looked, brussel said, i wonder what the international community can do. i want to hear from a voice in ukraine about what they believe the world could do to help. this is demetrius sugar. he's a european program director at the international renaissance foundation. and ukraine the world can help to stop his blood. the russian war in ukraine by 2 ways. fi

in his address to nato this morning, president zelenskyy pushed nato to further ramp up military assistance claiming russia has used phosphorous bombs, an allegation that u.s. officials say they cannot yet confirm. in his press conference following nato's emergency meeting this morning, jens stoltenberg would not confirm the allegations either as he announced the deployment of four battalions to shore up the eastern side of the alliance and he aid the alliance was taking additional precautions. >> we agreed to do including cybersecurity systems and equipment to help ukraine protect against biological, chemical, radiological, and nuclear threats. our top military commander, general walters, has activated nato's chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defense elements and allies are deproi v ploying additional chemical and biological and nuclear defenses to reinforce our existing groups. >> nbc news has confirmed what was first reported by the "new york times," that the white house has assembled a team of national security officials to start mapping out how to respond if vladimir putin

g. 7, and nato are all meeting. not only to send a united message to the kremlin, but to impose and strengthen penalties on russia for its attack on a sovereign nation. biden says russia should be removed from the g 20 and has you asked ukraine to attend the group's meetings. he also says his country is ready to help europe resettle $100000.00 refugees in america and provide an aid package of $1000000000.00 to europe. and by reiterated that nato is more united than ever. good was banking on nate. obey split my early conversation with him in december and early january was clear to me. he didn't think we could sustain this cohesion. nato has never, never been more united than it is today. prudent is getting exactly the opposite. what he intended to have as a consequence of going to new craig on these new correspondence, her shoulder is at the alliance headquarters and brussels. terry. good to see you. now. biden's says nato is more united than ever before. he's in europe to show his solidarity with allies, but the all

they asked to join nato. a you couldn't, you could argue that maybe nature could have waited longer than 997 to let them in another 5 or 10 years to massage relations with russia. but on the other hand, there was a lot of pressure from these east european capitals to join nato. and perhaps they had a reason for doing so. andrea, would you like to respond? yes. first of all, i'd like to on the line on the fact risha of french in united states are ignoring the fact is that the, the present day, a government and but the, the rules of, or in keith they came originally in 2014 as a cool beta illegal, put a thought in this is reverse, but ok. oh good. i thought can happen, but it's a full day thought. a very specific nature and the, the, the people now occupy and the key positions they are nazi. so we think that a present day, a campaign, a vicious dipper ligation of our or war, which we case against the, the nazi germany, the nazi germany and the cold europe backed. we don't, we remember that, that all the europe

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by nato, carried out by nato, is what we are supporting? well, we must be clear what a no—fly zone is. a no—fly zone means that somebody has to shoot down the planes which are not complying with that. so, in fact, whose planes are going to be shooting down russian jets and russian bombers? if these are going to be nato planes, then nato is going to be in direct war with russia. this is a sort of direct implication of those who say that nato should police the no—fly zone. so, we — yes, we press for all the sanctions in all the european forae... but not the no—fly zone? ..we press for all military assistance to ukraine and, yes, i think we should be thinking about enabling — giving ukrainians the military hardware to enforce a no—fly zone — that's to say to regain the skies — but it's very important, a no—fly zone is not a silver bullet, it's not a panacea. you know, there are cruise missiles, there are sort of artillery which the no—fly zone is not going to affect. let's be very clear about that. ambassador, what do you

if we go to my computer, this is nato. you can see the darker colors to left for the earlier countries. and now it's been encroaching easterly and as all the way up into the former soviet states that the baltic states which are connected. and i'm gonna put my mouse over this for you guys. that's about a 40 mile border right there. and it's a weak spot in the eastern flank of nato. so are we talking about moving troops there? and this is starting to sound. i mean, it has always been a military organization, but it also kind of feels a little bit like a sleeping giant waking up in force is actually coming into play that have only been terrorized for a long time. can you touch on that run you? sure. i mean, we're talking about the bowl takes, but we're not only talking about the bowl takes. nato already has 4 battle groups in place in the 3 baltic countries as well as in poland. that's about where you, your mouse was hovering, but to day still to mac was announcing the deployment of for more. a battle groups her the in the so

, the extent to which the nato summit today was really about protecting nato. i mean, obviously, sending additional equipment and weaponry to ukraine was top of the agenda but the real reason for today's meetings was about what can nato do to protect themselves given this brand-new, very, very challenging, they say, security environment in europe. wolf? >> natasha, stand by. kaitlan, you've been getting some new reporting on this so-called tiger team that the u.s. has put together to deal with this horrible contingency, this contingency of russia using chemical, biological or god forbid, nuclear weapons. >> this is basically a group of national security officials inside the administration. they're called a tiger team. they formed a version of this back in the fall when they thought russia might invade ukraine to prepare what that might look like. clearly that paid off given what's happened and four days we learned after the invasion started they authorized another version of it. this time focusing on if putin takes the extreme step of deploying chemical weapons

nato, g7 and the european council. in nato meeting look for areas where we see daylight between countries, some countries support a nato fly zone. there is fear of driving us into wider conflict or world war iii, the nato response would have to respond. is there talk of a no fly zone? that issue if we see that being resolved and the team come together firmer that is something china will be looking for. if nato is giving a lot of talk to support and resolve and not backing it up with red lines, then i think china will see that as weakness for lack of a better term. >> todd: the world leaders gathering for what is referred to as family photo. you saw justin trudea on the left of the screen. the reason we are seeing that russian aggression and the discussion about china, we are seeing china act the way it does is because nato and the entire continent of europe have not shown strength. guys, you need to put more into national defense so bad things don't happen. well, bad things have happened, not only in ukraine, but with

territories, but nato. it consistently reminds everyone that its duty is to protect those countries that our nato allies, the baltic states and poland. we've just seen the alliance activate for the 1st time ever in collective defense. it's rapid reaction for sending several 100 troops to romania. so nato's job is to defend its own territory. at the same time, everyone is watching what's happening in ukraine with extreme concern, and especially when it comes to nuclear safety. this certainly is not limited to national borders, and i think that's going to be something that is discussed at a very high level today at the foreign ministers meeting. and also at the meetings with the g 7 and the european union. terry, thank you so much as always our course monetary sholtes there at nato headquarters in brussels. all over ukraine, civilians are bearing the brunt of this military assault. and for those in frontline cities like mario pole, the situation is worsening. a warning, this report contains disturbing images.

simple reason there is no consensus in nato on nato membership. george w bush pushed very hard, but if i now listen to president biden i do not think that nato membership for ukraine was very high up before this war broke out on the biden agenda. it is high up before this war broke out on the biden agenda.— the biden agenda. it is great to talk to you. _ the biden agenda. it is great to talk to you, thank _ the biden agenda. it is great to talk to you, thank you - the biden agenda. it is great to talk to you, thank you so i the biden agenda. it is great to| talk to you, thank you so much. the biden agenda. it is great to i talk to you, thank you so much. some breaking news. the uk is announcing further sanctions against 65 individuals and entities. the latest round of sanctions include the wagner group of missionaries, russian railways, also the stepdaughter of the russian foreign minister, sergey lavrov. the wagner group of mercenaries, it is a group talked about potentially being in that ukraine, a group that works to support russia. they are

the anti nato, or, the nato mirror image. the warsaw pact had a closet mirrored nato's article five. an attack on any member nation would be considered an attack on all. the warsaw pact endured for around 30 years, but in 1989, as the berlin wall came down, and communist governments across eastern europe fell, one by one, the members left the warsaw pact, until it was formally dissolved in 1991. but, nato, the greatest military alliance in the history of the world, took up the slack. all of those warsaw pact countries, ultimately, along with many other former eastern bloc nations, joined nato. but, not ukraine. ukraine has never joined nato. in 2019, it has the constitution to admit itself to, eventually joining nato. of course, russia cited the threat of joining nato, as one of the justifications for its invasion. as far as the nonsensical reasons for the nonsensical attack on ukraine goes, is one that holds almost water. much more during a denazification of ukraine, or the protection of russians inside ukraine, or being sub

this is the sense of nato's union. missy: there have been repeated warnings in recent days to russia against using chemical or biological weapons in ukraine and statements from western officials that russia could be preparing to use those kind of weapons. from your perspective, mr. president, how do you think such an attack would or should change the nato military strategy in ukraine? and do you think it should prompt nato nations, you know, unilaterally or nato as an alliance to be engaged more directly in the conflict in ukraine? president levits: of course, this is the red line. and if russia would use nuclear or chemical weapons, it would be completely -- a completely new situation. nato should consider the new situation. and we have already stated the different statements. their response would be very impressive. so that russia would not be happy with it -- use of weapons. missy: just to press you a little bit more on that. certainly, everyone in the west would condemn such an attack, but would that or should that

, pull nato out of ukraine. why did you not just do that? and then call his bluff. but you didn't. it's like watching undercover boss watching the council on foreign relations and all you so-called experts that think you know what you're doing but when it really happens it doesn't -- you don't know what to do with yourself. what i'm looking at is if putin didn't have permission by the powers that be, he wouldn't be doing this. he had, a at the world economic forium, he said build back better. and this was what was going to happen. this is all part of it and you're playing the american people as fools to think that this isn't planned because they would not have turned our pipeline off the second day of this administration if they didn't want to do something on fuel. host: go ahead and respond. guest: i'm hearing a lot of paranoia and conspiracy mongering and name calling on the part of the caller. i'm not hearing a very cogent argument. to be clear, i'm not the person who talked in 2008 about offering nato member

good was banking on nato . be split my early conversations that december and early january was clear to me. he didn't think we could sustain this cohesion. nato has never, never been more united than it is today. prudent is getting exactly the opposite. what he intended to have as a consequence of going to ukraine. us present, they're speaking on the war in ukraine. we can take a now to nato h q. terry schultz is the covering events. there are tell you what stood out for you. i think as we heard in that sound by to president biden, was extremely bullish on the trans atlantic cooperation. and on the resolve that the alliance has had, he said that there were 3 main goals that they wanted to accomplish immediately after the invasion. and that was to help ukraine with military and financial assistance to impose harsh economic sanctions on russia. and sorry, sorry. and did these things, he says, have been accomplished, president biden said to bit brushes should not underestimate that the alliance is, is able to cont

look at nato and there's been a lot of heralding how unified nato is but you have france doing business with russia. you have germany looking the other way. we're not really ready to give up our russian oil. it's a huge part how we power our country. that will be a problem moving forward unless there's a better commitment on the part of the countries to change the behavior, isn't it? >> absolutely. they're getting there but they're getting there slowly with half steps at a time. i hope when he meets with the e.u. tomorrow, president biden pushes on this. we have the ability to ramp up our own energy production to help europe. they need to set a deadline and do it as soon as possible. yes, prices will rise in the short term. compare that to the thousands of lives lost and the millions of refugees displaced by russia's war in ukraine. we have to that i can that billion dollars a day going to putin and turn it off. >> martha: jamie dimon looks at the economy and clearly sees that's what can happen. he is asking for a plan to get europe less dependent on russia and that changes the power st

but nato as a whole? nato as a _ weapons. but nato as a whole? nato as a whole, _ weapons. but nato as a whole? nato as a whole, first _ weapons. but nato as a whole? nato as a whole, first of - weapons. but nato as a whole? nato as a whole, first of all, - nato as a whole, first of all, is there to protect the territory of nato, but also as a warning to vladimir putin, and one of the things i expect him to talk about in the meeting shortly at nato is in fact to have a discussion about how do we prevent vladimir putin from escalating further, in particular when it comes to the use of chemical or other weapons of mass destruction, including regular weapons. and to say, —— nuclear weapons. and decide if there is a line crossed would lead to direct nato intervention. we are closer to that than we were four weeks ago. i hope there is no further intervention, in fact, we all hope the walk and end as soon as possible and russian forces are withdrawn back to where they came from. but until such time, what is important is for nato to be ready to make clear that certain actions

, germany, and nato. you know what, what you call a pacifist country is often referred to as a free rider. here at here in brussels, at nato, because germany of course, benefits from the security of the alliance. but many people see it, see it as not having contributed everything it could. and that did all change with this speech. i spoke with someone working in, in the defense establishment in berlin, who said that, you know, up until now without this procurement decision announced yesterday, we would be able to, to know that we could by sort of one quarter of an airplane. we didn't know if we would get the funding after that to buy the rest of the plane. i mean, these things that don't sound that important perhaps to the public ears are really important for german defense. i mean the spending above 2 percent of g d, p, as nato has requested of all allies. that's massive. that of course has been something germany was absolutely lambasted for during the trump administration, but also in softer ways by oth

of course, it has an influence of an on vladimir, put in when nato is sir showing strength. nato. it's showing it's acting. united nato is moving some additional troops to, to the eastern flank, to, to poland, to the baltic states, to reduce the romania m. this is something that for letting me put in, it really didn't want to happen. so this is something what he really achieved and it's the opposite of his, of his goals. this is, this is really remarkable. but i believe also these countries on the eastern flank like poland or especially the smaller countries like lithuania is tonia. they are really willing to get this attention from from natal. they want me to to, to be there. they want me to, to send the signals, even if it's a verbal signal saying we want allow an inch of, of our natal territory to be attacked by russia. or, i guess, especially for the smaller countries it's, it's crucial to have this, this, this service, even verbal securities are because the situation is, is unthinkable. we didn't expect this to happen just a couple of weeks ago. what's happening now. marcus,

and spoke to our nato allies. something that struck me is under the previous administration our relationship with our nato sh allies and become a bit frayed. i have never seen our partnership prospect. i've been working with our nato allies for many years now and i've never seen the partnership stronger. we acted in concert with our european allies. when i went to ukraine and spoke to president zelensky i got that message of unity and i was incredibly impressed at the will of these ukrainian people. i was a member of the on how mi services committee and i said if you have what you need to fight the russians and he said, he talked about what we had provided, what he could use and then he said i don't need troops on the ground because we will fight the russians. certainly the bravery we've seen from the ukrainians. the will to protect their homeland has truly been inspirational to me. >> sherrill says nato gave us every opportunity to change course. what course youthink vladimir putin is now on ? >> it seems pretty

whatever that may be from. >> if russia's provoked by nato, if they are attacked by nato, i do not know. we are in nuclear power. why not? >> you think that is a legitimate thing to be saying? then >> i don't think it's a lie thing to say. but it's not the right thing to threaten russia, and to try to interfere. so, when you're dealing with a nuclear power, of course you have to calculate all of the possible outcomes of your behavior. that's when i want to say. >> but is russia committing more crimes in ukraine? >> i don't think we are committing war crimes in ukraine. of course it's not up to me to assess, i'm not there, you are not there. you're looking at the media, the videos that could be fake news. >> are you saying that the civilian hospitals, theaters, have not been targeted? >> no. they were not targeted. and you know it very well. we said it from the very beginning, that our military is not a threat for the civilian population in ukraine. >> can i show you what the u.s. believes as warcrimes? >> these are pictures taken by our colleagues in the associated press. these are apar

war has reached the nato border. so says the times, which carries a picture of the aftermath of the attack on the yavoriv base. the express calls the attack a "significant escalation" of the war, taking place so close to the border of poland — a nato member. and, the metro reports that volunteers in the uk are being urged to take ukrainian refugees into their homes. so, let's begin. the daily mail will focus on its front page. it has putin's deadly warning to the west. the male is saying that they've seen uk intelligence reports which suggest that the choice of this target that is so close to the border is clearly deliberate and illustrates what they're saying russia is willing to escalate should they not cease their supplies. this is a supply route to hardware into ukraine but this intelligence report is worrying and if so highly targeted and with insinuating. it if so highly targeted and with insinuating.— if so highly targeted and with insinuatina. ., , , ., , ., insinuating. it would suggest as a warnin: insi

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of course it has an influence, often on vladimir, put in when nato is sir showing strength. nato. it's showing it's acting. united nato is moving some additional troops to the eastern flank, to, to poland, to the baltic states, to return to romania. m. this is something that vladimir putin really didn't want to happen. so this is something what he really achieved to. and it's the opposite of his, of his goals. this is, this is really remarkable. or, but i believe also the cert countries on eastern flank like poland or especially the smaller countries like lithuania is tonia. they are really willing to get this attention from, from natal. they want me to, to, to be there. they want me to, to send the signals, even if it's a verbal signal saying we won't allow an inch of, of our natal territory to be attacked by, by russia. and i guess especially for the smaller countries it's, it's, it's crucial to have this, this, this is even verbal securities or because the situation is, is unthinkable. we didn't expect this to happen just a couple of weeks ago. what's happening now. marcus, as