to bring other forces in on his side, or whether putin s chain of command, shoigu s chain of command really will rally and crush the forces moving toward moscow. very quickly, general clark, because we are almost out of time, but you re the former nato supreme allied commander, what should u.s. and nato allies be looking for right now? how does this affect them? well, the concern would be that there would be some opportunity, some need on putin s part, to raise the stakes, to get the russian people more involved on his side, by claiming some nato provocation, by raising the nuclear war posture, by going into some country like latvia, to say that there s been a threat from latvia, to try to rally russia to his side. so we got to be very alert to that. very careful indeed. the stakes right now are enormous. retired general wesley clark, thank you very much for joining us. coming up, world leaders are