Tradeshohow in washington. First, russia has been modedernizing its military and improving trning as it continueues to intimidate neighbors. It has a surfaface aion Group Operating office area. It is fielding off of syria. It is fieldingew wararships. We met with ththe commander r of u. S. Nav forceces in europe and africa, admiral mark ferguson, leads the joint command in naplples. Wewe spoke before the mosc Cruise Missile sike. I asked him to explain which of russias capabilities are of st concern. Ferguson i start at the arctic, with h the buildg of bases along the northern side and other militarizationctions that are taking place in the arctic. I come down to grad, where we see a military buildup that encompasses the baltic sea. You en move downwn to crimea, where they have announced a 2 billion Expansion Program of t black sea fleet. We saw the firstilo submarine transit to the black sea. Ey are expanding what i call an arc of steelhat ggoes from the Arctic Circle to the crimea. F