issues are. i think the opportunity that president biden will take to have this conversation is a good one. again, as your reporters have indicated, there is a line to be drawn between panic on the one side, which we don t want, and the ukrainians don t want and president biden doesn t want, and on the other side, preparations. so preparations militarily to move forces, to demonstrate again to mr. putin that we re serious, that we re ready to fight, if this is necessary, if he were to attack all the way into nato, we re ready to reinforce our nato allies. we re also ready to provide additional forces, even more to additional weapons and equipment, even more than we have so far to the ukrainians. this is, again, a deterrent. the message here is, you should not invade. if you do, it will be very, very
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he said that those 8,500 remain on a heightened state of alert. that that number could grow, but that this was 3,000 forces, 1,000 again in europe already, 2,000 here in the u.s. that would be traveling to help support, the word he kept using throughout this was to deter aggression and to be there to help defend our allies. none of this was an offensive positioning. it was all in defense or in an effort to deter russia from trying to invade or expand any invasion to some of our allies in that region. most notably, as he said today, romania, poland, and ultimately germany. and jonathan, what s the message they re trying to send with this deployment? certainly, it s a tougher tone. they re not going to let vladimir putin just walk into ukraine unopposed. the obama administration came under sharp criticism in 2014 for not doing enough, for not readying more forces in a defensive posture when putin moved in on crimea and president biden doesn t want to be seen as
this needle given the guidelines that putin has already laid out in. first of all what we note is that not all what have president putin said there is necessarily true. big shock there. the russians had been placing intermediate range missiles closer and closer to european borders. that s the reason that president trump uses for pulling out of the intermediate forces agreement a few years ago, so the russians also have missiles pointed towards europe. they do suddenly seem to be focused on the american capabilities in europe. the second interesting question for biden and more to your good question is how does biden do this without saying that nato would withdraw its weapons from the region. first of all, that s not completely within president biden s authority to give. nato is a multi-nation alliance
road, and that s where the patient is in need of help or preventing the need for help. here to share their reporting and their insights, are our guests from the no, and politico. kind of extraordinary to watch the shift which has been driven by the different variants over the course of the last several months but take a listen to how anthony fauci, the president s top medical adviser, explained the newest cdc guidance. so you either shut down the the society which no one wants to do, or you try and get a situation where you can safely get people back particularly to critical jobs without having them be out for a full ten days so long as they are without symptoms. so what s so interesting about this, we ve seen some particularly on the labor side push back that this wasn t necessarily entirely science-based but it s the bshlg