If you google around enough, you can find these satellite images of stuff building up

on the border between Russia and Ukraine.

You know, it's publicly available, it's not classified.

Slates Fred Kaplan says military folks, they know what this stuff is, battalions of troops,

weapons of war.

But these latest satellite images from Russia suggest Moscow is now engaged in an unprecedented

buildup near the Ukrainian front here, enough to mount an overwhelming invasion.

Well, it shows that about 90,000 troops, a lot of tanks, some of which have been moved

to the Ukrainian border from as far away as the far-south eastern part of Russia.

The front line between Ukraine and Russia is on high alert tonight, all leave cancelled

for the troops who will be spending the holidays in the trenches.

Yeah, I mean, if this was happening on our northern border with Canada or southern border

with Mexico, yeah, it would be alarming, it would be alarming.

If you've heard anything about this troop buildup around Ukraine, alarm is probably what's

resonated the most.

Alarm that Vladimir Putin is testing the West, alarm that Russia might expand an ongoing

military operation inside Ukraine.

But I wanted to talk to Fred, because alarm was not his first reaction to this news.

What I'm about to say is the kind of thing that if I'm wrong, could be played back six

months from now and make me look really stupid.

But I don't think that he's going to invade Ukraine.

I don't think that's what's going on.

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