within the past hour, the us president hasjoined european leaders for an eu council meeting also in the belgian capital. let's begin with nato and joe biden�*s verdict on the unity of that alliance over the crisis. putin was banking on nato being split. my early conversations with him in december and earlyjanuary, it was clear to me he didn't think we could sustain this cohesion. nato has never, never been more united than it is today. putin is getting exactly the opposite of what he intended to have as a consequence of going into ukraine. we've built that same unity with the european union and the leading democracies of the g7. the leaders of the military alliance approved plans to send 40,000 more troops to eastern europe to tackle what they describe as the biggest security crisis in a generation. four new nato battlegroups are to be sent to its eastern flank, to slovakia, hungary,