massed on ukraine's border. in bret at this point it's not a matter of if, but one. how far does putin go? it's not a coincidence that he's doing it after north stream two comes online. he knows that when he controls europe's gas, he can fracture you are sidelined them in terms of sanctions or military responses. we need the clarity that the united states will support the ukrainians and send stingers an error defense that the ukrainians have been asking for an other type of legal assets but instead we have seen some speak end as chris wallace said, blanket looks like he's reading from a teleprompter. >> bret: ukraine's technically not a part of nato so it doesn't fall under article five. there's a lot of concern about the u.s. getting in a proxy war with russia.