I mean, what they announced today is that we're preparing to lean forward, get units ready to deploy, but we haven't deployed anything yet. Well, I agree with everything my colleague said.īut the response so far has been kind of underwhelming.
Phil Karber, President, The Potomac Foundation: So, I think, for all of those reasons, to shore up the credibility of the alliance and to prepare for potential scenarios, these steps by the Biden administration and NATO allies are important ones and welcome. And this is signaling the United States' willingness to move beyond sanctions and to change the security environment in which any revisionist actor would face. And I think he and China is going to be watching very closely to see the United States' ability to marshal a coalition to respond. I think we want to be crystal clear with President Putin that the alliance has the resolve to respond, so that he doesn't look to test any other NATO member states.Īnd I will just say, I also think there is one broader audience, and that is Xi Jinping. I also think a key goal and objective of prepositioning forces like this is to signal alliance resolve. We want to be prepared for those possibilities. So, I think the key is kind of preparing for scenarios in which conflict between Russia and Ukraine could spill over into NATO member states, particularly Poland and Romania. So, I think this is a real shift in their footing and how they're thinking about the likelihood of conflict between Russia and Ukraine. And so they're starting to preposition forces and take these steps to prepare for scenarios in which conflict could potentially spill over or tax NATO member states.
I think, at this point, the key for the Biden administration and its NATO allies is to ensure that this conflict, should it happen, remains contained to Ukraine. And so they're shifting to a more proactive footing to help prepare for that conflict. To me, this signals that they see that conflict is becoming more likely in the coming weeks. So far, they have been talking a lot about deterrence and laying out the cost for Putin if he should take action. How much of a change in posture is this for the Biden administration to be making this announcement about troop readiness? And what is your sense of how meaningful this troop deployment could be?Īndrea Kendall-Taylor, Center For a New American Security: So, I think this signals a shift in the way the Biden administration is approaching the conflict. And we welcome both of you to the "NewsHour."Īndrea Kendall-Taylor - excuse me - to you first.
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