nato allies. some units are already on a heightened state of readiness. i don t know of specific orders that general walters gave to increase the readiness posture of other unit in europe. i go back to a core principle here. we take our nato commitments seriously. we are going to be consulting with allies as we have been in coming days. if there are ways to bolster their capabilities to help their defensive postures, we will take a serious look at that and not all of that has to come or necessarily will come from state side. three quick follow-ups. does walters have the ability to
6 u.s. f-15 jet landed yesterday. today we learned that 4 f-15 fighter jet flew there but not enough to deter putin from going beyond ukraine. what the united states is doing is modest. ukrainians are facing the russians alone. the steps by nato are intended to insure the allies they have your back. it will defend nato members. the u.s. has 80,000 troops based across europe the bulk in germany and 5,000 in poland and the balt ticks.
delivering gas to europe over this tension. it has still been a very difficult day and russia markets, russian stocks have stumbled and the ruble is down against the dollar quite significantly. the kremlin have been fairly bullish about this but affect incompetence. diplomacy isn t over yet, waiting to hear from america on the written demand to russia and russia response will probably dictate whether russia decides to continue with diplomacy or whether it ta kes a takes a different, potentially more aggressive path. she is live with me from washington. good to see you. help me understand the politics of this in washington. other republicans and democrats on similar ground? trio. republicans and democrats on similar round? ., , ., republicans and democrats on similar round? ., ., ground? no, they are obviously both very concerned ground? no, they are obviously both very concerned about ground? no, they are obviously both very concerned about this ground? no, they are obviously b
and really focus on that domestic policy. here s where it gets complicated, russia obviously is a huge supplier of oil and natural gas in europe and around the world. we see gas prices in the united states already high, where dealing with record high inflation in the united states was up there is a fear that if a conflict were to emerge between russia and ukraine right now, that could impact the economics here in the united states and the american peoples pocketbooks. right now we do know that the state department is meeting with various energy companies around the world and other foreign governments such as qatar and norway to really come up with some sort of a contingency plan to figure out what to do if russia were to weapon eyes is a natural gas stockpiles. to weapon eyes is a natural gas stockpiles to weapon eyes is a natural gas stockiles. ., ., , , stockpiles. before you go, is this breakin: stockpiles. before you go, is this breaking into stockpiles. before you go, is this b
members in europe. this map on the nato website. there s russia in the east the light blue coloured countries are all nato members. some of them are former members of the soviet union. something putin says is a broken promise. we won t move one inch towards the east they told us in the 1990s, and what happened? they deceived us. they brazenly tricked us. the west denies this, but russia remains outraged. not least when ukraine takes part injoint military exercises with nato. or when the the eu says this: as ever, the european union stands by ukraine in these difficult circumstances. we are very firm in our resolve. russia wants nato to pull back, nato says it won t. russia wants ukraine to turn away from europe, the eu says it canjoin. and if those are three longer term reasons, here are three reasons why this has escalated.