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Walking past the microphones. didn t stop to speak at the microphones walking further into the headquarters alongside the secretary general. the president will want to ensure that these allies are on the same page as they re going forward. one of the things he also wants to do is sort of manage these differences that do exist between the countries to ensure that they re able to sustain the pressure campaign on russia going forward. one of the big announcements we expect the president to say today, bolstering nato s defense posture along the flank both in the short term of the defense battalions being sent to the southern countries along the eastern flank but also in the long term, they re tasking defense ministers to come up with plans to bolster the forced posture on the eastern flank on a more permanent basis to try and really emphasize the commitment to those countries that are closest to russia, that ....
The president was hoping for was this very dramatic visit. when you think about these types of summits, rosemary, ordinarily organizers have months and months to kind of come up with what the leaders will announce at the end of the summit, the so-called deliverables. this time president biden made known only about a couple of weeks ago that he wanted to meet these leaders face to face in person here in brussels. you ve seen the u.s. and european officials scrambling to put together a package of something they can announce at the end of the summit. you see him walking into the nato headquarters alongside the secretary general i ian stoltenberg. they ve gathered inside the doorstep of nato. we ll see if president biden stops, that s something of a tradition for leaders to stop there, whether they want to or not. earlier we did see the canadian prime minister. let s just see if he he s ....
Wagging a war of terror in ukraine. so i think pressure is building up to have an economy on a war footing. a big ask. i think that s what should happen and that would certainly be very, very strong message to vladimir putin. right. the u.s. is planning to help in that regard in providing assistance. ukraine s president zelenskyy wants them to go further with a no fly zone and aircraft that he s been requesting. that s not going to happen. u.n. secretary general ian staltenberg said that s not going to happen. how far should they go and how far do you think it will eventually go? ....
Russians. one of the big questions we ve been asking is what the red line is for nato to potentially get involved in the conflict. staltenberg said the use of weapons of mass destruction by russia would result in very severe consequences, something he reiterated when he arrived at nato head quarters, take a listen. president putin has made a big mistake. that was to launch a war, to wage war against an independent sovereign nation and ending use of chemical weapons would fundamentally change the nature of the conflict. it will be a blatant violation of international law and it will have widespread and severe consequences. so obviously the nato alliance is not previewing what the consequences would be if they did use the weapons of mass ....
The defense alliance has their back so the defense ministers will kind of come up with plans there, report back. when nato meets in madrid, they will meet and make a decision then. these are high stakes meetings. high stakes for president biden. high stakes for europe and high stakes for the world. the real question looming over all of this is what the take away will be for vladimir putin. watching from moscow, will he see a united alliance? certainly president biden s goal is to smooth over whatever differences exist and ensure the alliance remains united going forward. still got the camera on president biden there with the secretary general. the expectation is biden will push some of these european leaders to become less dependent on russian energy. ....