like the italian have who can go in and retake a building with nato and not just leave it to the latvian police force. this process is already under way. there are already leaders in eastern europe who are afraid, let s say, to assist ukraine with its urgent plea for assistance. putin might escalate. that s part of the russian tactic. he wants you to believe that if you try to resist it s futile to resist. he wants to frighten the west with the fear of escalation. we dealt with this adequately during the koerldcold war. we have a new generation of leaders, political leaders from across europe and in the united states who aren t familiar with the tactics. they don t understand it. it s not accompanied by the same component that it had during the cold war. this is not global marxism.
aggressive moves, if you will or isis and the other terrorist organizations? well in the immediate future right now, the terrorists if they could get a bomb on an airliner would do it and we would consider that an immediate threat. but the more significant threat is actually russia because the structure of the post cold war global order depends on the united states and its relationship to europe. it depends on nato and the european union. we have to have our allies in order to deal with the rising power of china and help china integrate peacefully into the future 21st century world order. how we play all this is very important in the long run. isis and the fight against terrorism will go on for three years or a decade. our influence on that is limited. we don t want u.s. troops on the ground. that inflames the situation.
increased risk in our ability to defend north america against russian air, maritime and cruise missile threats. russia has doubled its long-range bomber patrols around u.s. coastlines in last year. now, ten a year. more than 100 around europe. the most flights since the cold war. in the last month, several u.s. officials publically sounding warning. russia s provocations are only move worrisome in light of putin s intense focus on building up and modernizeing russia s military forces. there are those dual use weapon systems that could very easily be nuclear or non-nuclear. our ability to tell the difference between one and the other is very tough. this is very worrisome. reporter: now those increased
what he wants to do is walk a fine line between projecting russian power, making sure russian russia is feared in the w0r8dorld and taken seriously without it becoming too isolated. you heard brian todd s report saying that kim jong-un may be going to moscow. his first trip as leader of north korea. supposed to be a year of friendship between russia and north korea. before russia used to do years of friendship or cultural exchange with european countries. one year they did this with the u.s. one year with holland, with italy, with france. now those countries have sanctioned russia. you can t really do years of friendship with those countries. you have to turn to the countries that haven t written you off yet or blocked you on their friend list. what s really interesting if you look at russian poles, they show that they reflect what russian people are being shown on tv. anti-american, anti-european
the baltic states they are under hybrid warfare attack right now. these aircraft flying around are part of that hybrid warfare. let s say there was a demonstration in latvia and buildings were taken over. the government says these are russians that have come in. someone says no i m a latvian citizen who speaks russian. what would nato do? those are the questions that bother our allies in eastern europe. if it were to start that way as it started in ukraine, we don t know how it would end. that s the threat that nato must deal with not only the threat of a conventional invasion or some long-range cruise missile taking out radar, but the fact that through these hybrid warfare tactics nibbling away at nato he could undercut the credibility of the alliance. general, julia wanted to weigh in. one thing i was going to say is russia is already testing nato in the baltics.