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Russia aims to intimidate with muscular military exercise

Not since the Soviet era has the Russian military showed off this much weaponry and tried to convince the world that the Russians are coming -- and they've already arrived. Russian forces have this week conducted its largest war games in a generation, and got some help from China. Nick Schifrin reports that the exercises are as much about projecting power as demonstrating it.