presence of combat troops right near the border with ukraine in the last two weeks. somewhere in the 100,000, 130,000 range and they ve been moving closer to the border in field camps. they ve been moving up. the kinds of resources that you would need to actually make a military attack and so i think to talk about de-escalation is not where we re at right now. doesn t mean it s impossible to foresee but it s not happening right now. president biden has said several timss that if russia invades, then the nord stream 2 gas pipeline from russia to germany won t go ahead. listen. if russia invades, that means tanks or troops crossing the border of ukraine again, then there will be there will be no longer a nord stream 2. we ll bring an end to it. the german chancellor during his visit to the white house
waiting for sue gray s publication there may be an element of waiting for the police s conclusions as well. so it is a complicated picture, but, overall, worth stressing, we have been waiting a long time for these findings to come out, we will learn more today than we knew this morning or yesterday in terms of what went on and what sue gray has been investigating. so it is likely to be a big moment for borisjohnson, who has been under enormous political pressure, not just from opposition parties, but from some of his own mp5 as well. we from some of his own mps as well. we have been waiting for some time and, as the clock has carried on ticking, so the government is turning its attention to other issues and amongst those one of the headline stories today is about whether mandatory vaccinations will or won t go ahead for nhs staff, that is something else borisjohnson has
thanks for asking it. china is watching what s going on in ukraine. despots all over the world are watching. north korea, the missile launch, iran bombing the uae. china flying 74 fighter aircraft into taiwan s airspace. everybody is watching this. you ask why now. well, because of the weakness president joe biden showed in afghanistan, terrible withdrawal. it s empowered them. we can t let it continue by empowering them again. with troops in belarus on the polish border, a nato ally, so i think this is very important. by the way, twice last century americans waited too long and the conflagration in europe got so bad that it cost us too much. we can act now and perhaps create enough deterrence that putin won t go further, maybe we
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through economic measures as well. this won t go well for mr. putin should he decide to invaid again. the other thing is what he s seeing is a more unified west and nato. what he said he didn t want to see. which is a strong nato on his western flank. all of these actions, all of this uncertainty has unified the alliance. charles: what have the nato response forces activated? that s a north atlantic council decision. if it s activated, it s a force of 40,000 members. we have a contribution to that in the united states. as you know, weeks ago, secretary austin put 8,500 troops on a heightened alert posture. they re dedicated to the response force. so if it s activated, the united states contribution to the nato readiness force will be ready to