nations. first lithuania, he will also visit latvia and estonia as the u.s. tries to make very clear to president putin that every inch of nato territory will be defended. that if there is any idea from the uses that they plan to expand this campaign beyond ukraine, that would put russia into a direct conflict with nato under article 5 as we discussed. nato would be forced to defend its territory. so the u.s. wants to make very clear to its baltic allies who are very scared at this point that they could potentially be the next target, that they are going to have their backs guarded by the rest of their nato allies. we heard from secretary blinken before he got on that flight to the ball ticks while he was in moldova, another russian neighbor that has been experiencing an influx of refugees from ukraine. and in moldova, blinken said that the u.s. is now talking with poland about perhaps a