that russia s safety and its citizens is an absolute priority and security will be provided in any circumstance. so probably what you didn t quite hear there, there was actually a round of applause from the doomer when he gave that speech. he didn t specifically say it was going to be a military response. we ve heard that before from others who say if one of the other interesting details the look at the broad picture today just a little bit here, those other nations that might take supplement u.s. and nape toe troops that we talk about in eastern europe. just five days ago, the russian foreign ministry said all foreign troops should be pulled out of romania and bulgaria. they are getting the written proposal of how they might be areas to cooperate but are
pentagon press secretary john ki kirby. thank you for being with me. putin says we are not moving towards nato. nato is moving towards us. he s not approaching a border, nape toe nato is broaching a border. he s got well over 100 tro,000 troops on the border. what s your response? it was russia who decided to well north of 100,000 troops over the several weeks around the border with ukraine. that wasn t nato. that was mr. putin. nato is a defensive alliance. we re doing what we believe we need to do to help assure our allies about how seriously we take our commitments to that alliance. we re just suring up capabilities there on the eastern flank as we said very publicly that we would do. mr. putin can deescalate this very quickly.
it s very hot. they have not moved any of their troops out nape of moved more troops in, number one. number two, we have reason to believe that they are engaged in a false flag operation. every indication we have is they re prepared to go into ukraine, attack ukraine. number one. number two, i ve been waiting for a response from putin to my letter in my response to him. i have not read it yet. i cannot comment on it. [ inaudible question ] yes. my sense is we ll have something in the next several days. is there any diplomatic forward available? yes, there is. that s why i asked secretary blinken to go to the united
colonel level, the yun ukrainia are finding them and killing them. the russians have not trained at the level that you would expect for them to get ready to do an invasion. they are not ready for this. that s really interesting to hear. mean meanwhile, it does sound as if putin is upping the ante because he said he s putting his nuclear defense on alert. what does that mean? well, i listen to ambassador earlier and agree completely with him that president putin, to threaten nukes cost him nothing. to use them, that will cost him everything. i think part of this is for the russians to try to dissuade us, nape toe
works hard, she studies hard, she was brilliant at harvard. she was someone who convened people around here, starting study groups to really have people talk and an intellectual process. they said, if you had to describe her as someone who was in a race, she would be the anchor of the race nape also called her the glue, the captain. they say that she is someone who has been training for this and dreaming of this moment her whole life. one of her friends, antoinette coakley, actually told me that in their harvard dorm room, she told judge jackson that she would be the first black woman on the supreme court. and why did she say that, and she told me, it s because she really saw the desire and the work ethic in her friend. another thing to note is that she s someone who really values her african-american heritage. i was told by lisa fairfax, who s going to be introducing her, that she wanted people to make sure that they said her name right. that ketanji and what it meant to her was somet