These are about deterrent and defensive measures. They are in -- precisely in response to the current security environment in light of this increasingly threatening behavior by the Russian Federation.
Price explains the rationale behind the deployment of troops as a defensive measure against Russian aggression.
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Anderson, we are providing our Ukrainian partners, with precisely what they need, to fight, and to engage in self-defense. They've been doing so, with courage, with bravery, and with dignity, and will continue to do that.
If we don't stand up, to what the Russians are trying, to do, in Ukraine, we will undermine that international system, that international order.
If they do invade in the coming days, it will make clear they were never serious about diplomacy.
Well, war crimes are spelled out very clearly, any number of fora, including the Geneva Conventions. But what is - what we are doing, what is important to us, and what we will continue to do, are a couple things. One, to provide our…