James Stavridis on Ukraine/Russia: NATO Should Be Standing Strong in the Face of This

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SCARBOROUGH: "Yeah. And admiral, I guess my question is this. Those 50,000 troops in western Europe, how many of those troops should Joe Biden move from western Europe into Poland, western Europe into other countries moving closer? Again, not because we want to provoke anybody but just because we want to say, 'Listen, if you are going into Ukraine how do we know you are not going to continue going west?'" 
STAVRIDIS: "Exactly right. And you could pull those U.S. troops out of Italy, out of western Germany and move them into Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. Again, show Vladimir Putin his bad behavior is going to be rewarded on the other side of the coin. Last thought, we haven’t mentioned it but there’s another audience at play here and that is China. Both sides are signaling to China and in particular Putin’s play here is a signal to Xi that he, Putin, is a big actor on the international stage. That’s another reason NATO should be standing strong in the face of this because there are challenges elsewhere in the world as well.”