as many as 8500 u.s. troops are now on high alert to be deployed to eastern europe to join nato forces. a decision ukraine s foreign minister commit throw kuleyba says he welcomes. i think it s a message to putin, that listen, whatever you re trying to achieve, you get the opposite. if you want us to withdraw from central europe, withdraw nato structure from central u.s., our response is reinforcing the eastern flank of nato. some have suggested, though, that this shift might actually anger putin and escalate the crisis further. are you concerned about that? well, if we learned anything since 2014 is that it s 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.