forces, rebels, belarussian forces are now kind of surrounding ukraine. reporter: matthew, thank you for that real imrecall and thanks tore sharing in this ongoing geopolitical battle. here to break it all down is ian bremer. the fact that the white house is weighing new options, thinking about sending more arms to ukraine, ammunition, mortars, anti-take mifshlgs et cetera, is this then an expected piece of the deterrent straptgy? does it signal an invasion is imminent? what s your read? no, it signals that they are very concerned about the possibility of an invasion and they don t know what putin is going to do, and i m not sure that putin knows what he s going to do. certainly the people you talk to, they are close to the russian president saying they