sent already to eastern poland. joining 1700 of their fellow soldiers there. those 82nd airbnb orne troops s up border transit points as americans come out of ukraine and the most likely route right now is to the west, into poland. they will set up border control points on the polish side of the border and assist americans in making their arrangement to get back to the united states or wherever they want to go. regardless of the pldiplomacy, u.s. in the position of telling americans it is time to leave. listen, they don t want a repeat of what happened in afghanistan. that s very clear at this point. barbara starr, thank you. joining us now to discuss all this, cnn military analyst colonel cedric layton, intelligence officer. cedric, good to have you on this