Jeanne Shaheen actually said...

The Black Sea region has been a critical area of focus for Vladimir Putin as he pursues his aggressive agenda and revisionist history.

I want to start with that because in the strategy the State Department acknowledges that a visible U.S. and NATO naval presence in the Black...

We are there with a coalition. I think we are indispensable to shaping what it does and how it does it.

I think it makes a lot of sense to have--to recognize how important that is as we are doing the strategy.