the pentagon announced that some 8500 us troops are in height and preparedness. the alliance in the streets of their activated our defensive end they are for frontline nato states, how does this protect ukraine? how does a stop them from going into ukraine? it is designed to reassure our nato allies quick. how does the protect ukraine? it s in the very clear signal to mr. putin that we take our responsibilities to nato seriously. to be continued, explaining that height and preparedness does mean that troops are gearing up to go fight the russians. all we are doing today is telling these units that we need to get ready and you need to be ready to go on a shorter timeline then maybe you were before. no deployment orders have been find yet. we want to make sure that they are ready in case they are asked . the pentagon insist no
nato and to the article 5 commitment inside nato. how will you know when the military goals are achieved? again, barb, there s been no mission assigned. this is about getting troops ready and back to what we are trying to achieve is a couple of things. obviously we still would like to deter vladimir putin and the russians from another incursion, number one. number two, it s to make sure that we are bolstering and staying unified with the alliance, the appliance stays strong. and so the large bulk of the reason for this, these prepare to deploy orders is really to make sure we are ready to bolster the nato alliance and prove the solidarity of the appliance. those are the two sort of big outcomes here but no mission assigned to the troops, no deployment orders have been sent to them. what the secretary has ordered them to do is be ready to go in some cases on a much shorter
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