White House’s poor #communication affects #NATO’s internal coherence, says Hodges

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[00:00:00]I'm guessing that this 5,000 is not some new 5,000, but it's the original brigade that was supposed to come.

[00:00:07]But, we don't know. So, we need the troops. They should be there in Poland. Uh, I think both Poland, uh, US Army Europe, they all were prepared for this capability, planned for the year year to come. Um, I'm glad that that also for the soldiers if that's who we're talking about.

[00:00:29]But, it's not it's not exactly clear which 5,000 we're talking about. It's not the fact that maybe 5,000 might or might not be there. It's how this whole process has unfolded, how it was communicated or poorly communicated. And that that generates friction, which then I think damages the coherence of NATO.

[00:00:52]That's That's the danger, not the 5,000 soldiers. And And so, the president and the whole administration have got to do a much better job of making it clear uh, to the to the Kremlin