situation in ukraine. we are joined by retired four star general barry mccaffrey. thanks for being here. good to be with you, ari. as you understand it, what is the status on the ground and what is the status from the united states position? well, virtually you have to say that statement by president biden was extremely well thought out, balanced, a lot of deterrence, nato unity, more importantly spoke directly to the russian people. it was really an excellent statement. we look at what s going on in ukraine. last night i looked at video of sp military two millimeter road marching into position. astonishing. nothing has changed. 150,000 russian troops are poised, coming from the south, seize the ukrainian ports from the east, massive russian armor, from belarus in the north.
is that working best you can tell now? yeah, i think so. secretary blinken and austin and the president and other team members have really pulled together an in coherent nato left to us by mr. trump that was in disarray. looks to me like they have, most important thing about ukraine is not just direct threat of military aggression by the russians against the 41 million person country, but also the notion of who is next. putin has gone into georgia, syria, seized the crimea. this guy has a history of armed aggression. so the baltic states, poland, romania, the biden administration has sent in sort of token forces, but other nato allies are joining us to indicate we will stand by article 5 with our nato
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"There were two important things happening at the conference: one was the West affirming its unity, which was nice to see," Anne Applebaum told DW. "The dissonance, the problem, is that the Ukrainians, who are also here in large numbers, feel that's not enough."