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they feel like belarus would be where a potential invasion would be launched from. so, another 24 hours going by without violence, that s a good 24 hours, as one white house aide put it to me, but they feel like they are far from out of woods rights now, which is why the president wanted to address the nation today. colonel vindman, there s some reporting in the washington post that i suspect, again, if you were in government, you would be intimately involved in. they write this. behind the scenes is the tiger team s private planning and strategizing, which has not been previously reported to ensure that not just the white house but all the agencies that would need to respond to an outbreak of hostilities are primed and ready to go. the playbook itself goes far beyond battlefield scenarios, looking at questions like how to address ukrainian refugees who might stream into poland and romania, how to secure the u.s. embassy in kyiv, exactly what sort of sanctions to impose on moscow a
trauma. much of the world is crying for ukraine and its children what will you some day tell anna about the world she was born into she s a child of war. she ll be okay. right? yes you guys will be okay now to nato s front lines in the baltics. what secretary of state antony blinken today called a democratic wall against autocracy. in latvia, u.s. forces are taking part in nato military exercises. josh letterman is there with exclusive reporting on their training reporter: tonight, american troops barely 100 miles from the russian border, ready to take on any threat. running through drills in latvia alongside nato allies, preparing for a range of battlefield scenarios.
once, and the most important part is for them to filter out all the distractions and everything like that, the call to prayer, the gunshots, the explosions, the instructors yelling at them and everything. reporter: roughly one hundred thousand military members have trained here so far. some have already served tours of duty overseas. from my personal experience i didn t have to experience anything like that when i was over there myself. having gone through it now i feel more prepared for the area i m going to in a few months. reporter: the whole idea is a systematic approach to training with multiple battlefield scenarios playing out all at the same time. they are learning here as well as down range which is the most important point behind it. it s about as realistic that you can possibly get other than being in real combat. reporter: bill, it was incredibly realistic. i ve been in the middle east, we everee been in the middle east, my photographer has been there as well. w
of duty overseas. fortunately from my personal experience i didn t have to experience anything like that when i was over there myself. having gone through it now i feel more prepared for the area i m going to in a few months. reporter: the whole idea is a systematic approach to training with multiple battlefield scenarios playing out all at the same time. they are learning here, versus down range which is the whole entire point behind it. reporter: it s about as realistic as you can possibly get, other than being in real combat. reporter: this is the last stop for many of these marine and corpsman before they go oversees. we ve done some of these trainings around the country the last five, six, seven years, this one by far the most realistic and the props department, they used to make props for the movies and television shows, they are now making stuff that is as real as you can believe. my photographer and i have both been overseas a loo a lot of times. i can tell you you fe