So that's when you saw Putin start to move his forces more aggressively to the Ukrainian border. And then two days before Putin actually invaded, Jens Stoltenberg, the secretary General, gave a speech talking about how important it was for NATO to project power eastward across Asia. and that clearly referring not just to Russia, but to China and trying to grow Naito into South Korea and Japan. So this is really something that has been pushed and agitated. (09:33–09:43)
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