diplomatic resolution. at the same time warning that the prospects of a russian military invasion remain very, very high. and they haven t they tried to avoid getting any more specific than that. there is a sense that this is a white house that has tried to project this united front among nato allies with russia and has been struggling to do so lately, particularly yesterday after that meeting with the german chancellor, we saw president biden repeatedly saying that there is no need for germany to win back trust, as he was responding to a question saying that there is complete trust between the united states and germany, insisting there is no daylight between the two, and at the same time we heard president biden say clearly that nord stream 2 pipeline will not move forward if indeed there is a russian invasion of ukraine. the german chancellor would not go that far. he wouldn t say specifically and directly that that pipeline wouldn t go forward, despite repeated questioning. we did