nato response to protect a country that is not a nato member? let me start by just reminding everyone on that nato s core responsibility is to protect and defend all nato allies. 30 countries and 1 billion people and we do that with the fact that we have increased readiness of hundreds of thousands of nato forces. there are now hundreds of thousands of u.s. forces in europe and something that was result of a decisive reaction from the united states and allies. and there are 10s of thousands of troops on the direct nato command, supported by air and naval assets. i say this because this is our core responsibility, to protect nato allies. then we support ukraine, which is a highly valued partner. and any use of chemical weapons would totally change the nature of the conflict.
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have you and nato been able to confirm the use of phosphorus bombs? i will carefully go into every report we see about the use of different types of weapons. but what i can say is we ve seen what the rest of the world has seen is that civilian infrastructure, residential areas have been attacked again and again. and we re seeing a high number of civilian casualties. and this just highlights the importance of ending this war. and therefore, we re putting maximum pressure on president putin, partly with sanctions and partly with increased presence of nato forces in eastern part of the alliance to make sure that he ends the war and we draw all the troops and engage in good faith in diplomatic efforts. what would be the trigger? what would vladimir putin have to do to ukraine to trigger a
he will move on to nato frontline states. so, nato is the strongest alliance in history. we represent 50% of the world s gdp and 50% of the world s military and with an increased presence of nato troops and forces in eastern part of the alliance, we demonstrate we eare ready to protect and defend every nato ally. and that s the message we re sending and the united states has been very much a part of sending the message. american troops in poland and romania in the last weeks and it s extremely impressive and reassuring to see the commitment and professionally some of american troops in europe and european allies are stepping up and we re doing more together. so, that s the way to prevent an attack. our deterrent is not to provoke a war but prevent an attack on
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