what would they be doing? is that a deterrent? would they be doing any fighting? i don t think they spelled that out well enough. certainly putin s objectives as we ve discussed many times, he doesn t want a flourishing democratic society on his border that is only 300 miles from moscow and that s what his interest in ukraine has been from the outset. second major interest is to undermine and weaken nato itself. what the president has done he made a major policy shift here. we have been talking about for weeks that we should be doing preemptive action to deter putin. not just threats of actions, that we ll take after an invasion, do something before. we provided some military aid, not nearly enough in my view. and now we ll put some troops in nato countries to reinforce those countries. not just troops. i understand air power and warships as well from the