demands it's putting on the table and its ramping up troops. that he said, leads to a very dangerous situation. >> challenge is when you see these buildup combined with the rhetoric, combined with the threat of russia they have actually used force against neighbors before, georgia and ukraine, the capabilities, the rhetoric and the track record, of course, that sends a message that is a real risk for a new armed conflict in europe. >> reporter: the u.s. secretary of state antony blinken who was part of that meeting said that russia is creating a false narrative by saying it is u.s. forces, nato forces, that are a threat to russia close to russia's border. he said what russia is trying to do at the moment by taking the twin-track approach of talking to the united states, talking to nato separately, giving them separate security demands, he said that it in effort to divide