your escalation is reinforcing the flank. some suggest this might anger putin and escalate the crisis further. are you concerned about that? well, if we learned anything from 20 and 14, that it is a flawed logic to handle president putin from the perspective that, let s do nothing in order not to make him angry. no. this is not how it works. strength, resolve, deterrence. these are the three elements that work with putin. reporter: on the other side of the border, yet another show of force from russia s military with the missile systems on display. the russian defense ministry says the exercises are, quote, to check the troops battle readyness. few here have any doubt that russia is ready to go to war. but the question remains whether that is its intention. so do you believe there will be a military escalation here in