and all of this is against the back drop of our response to nato s to russia s aggression and to help ukraine defend itself. united states is rallying the world to stand with ukraine. allies and partners around the globe are making significant contributions. sect austin just brought together more than 50 countries, more than 50 countries pledging new commitments and this is a global effort to support ukraine. nearly 140,000 anti-tank systems, more than 600 tanks, nearly 500 artillery systems, more than 600,000 rounds of artillery ammunition, as well as advanced multiple launch rocket systems and air defense smexs. and again the united states is leading the way. we provided ukraine are nearly $7 billion in security assistance since i took office. the next few days we intend to announce more than $800 million more including new advanced western air defense systems to ukraine, more artillery and ammunition, counter battery radar and the launch system we ve given ukraine and mo
he cannot do that. so i think he s now changed his tactics but not his ultimate aim of seizing all of the ukraine or as much as he can. so sadly, i think we re in for a long conflict. and i think it is great that you brought the press conference in its entirety. i think what we just watched is one of the most important press conferences of his presidency. it was on domestic and foreign policy. domestically he talked about ending the filibuster and foreign policy, we re stationing permanent troops in poland, we re expanding the reporter with russia by 800 miles. we re in a new world. so that was a major press conference both domestically and foreign and i m glad you let your listens hear all of it. all right. thank you so much. she s the author of book not one inch, america, russia and the making of post-cold war stalemate. we appreciate it. retired u.s. army lieutenant general stef twitty. thank you as well. thank you to both of you for
all domains. land, air, sea, cyber and space. we reaffirmed that our article 5 commitment is sacred and that an attack on one is an attack on all and we ll defend every inch of nato territory. every inch of nato territory. for our part, the united states is doing exactly what i said we could do if putin invaded and enhanced or forced posture in europe. we ll station more ships in near in spain. we retationing more air defense in italy and germany. more f-35s in the united kingdom and to strengthen our eastern flank, now headquarters for the army fifth corp in poland. in addition, an additional brigade combat team positioned in romania. and additional rotational deployments in the baltic countries. things are changing. so we re adapting to the world as we have it today.
different investments being made in nato. troops being moved. being added on permanent locations in poland, et cetera, et cetera. he also made a direct line between gas prices here in the u.s. and russia later in his comments. let s bring in professor of history or cal studies at johns hopkins university school of advanced international studies and associate at harvard university, mary elise sarrot. and with us military analyst former deputy commander of the united states european command and retired u.s. army lieutenant general stef twitty joins us. good to have you both with us today. and i ll first, general twitty, ask you a little bit about the state of nato right now after listen to the president s comments. i mean, this is a real turn around for the alliance. but also the significance of permanent u.s. troops now.