we didn't see the chancellor from germany yesterday when he came to washington to basically say, and i was waiting for him to say, "if putin invades, we will shut down the nord stream ii pipeline." i didn't hear that from him. now the president, biden, said that... yeah. ..but not germany... but that, with all due respect, congressman, is surely the key point here, thatjoe biden not only has a duty, as he sees it, to talk tough to vladimir putin, he also has a really important obligation to keep the western alliance together. he can't move far further forward than the french, the germans, or other key players in nato are prepared to let him move, because if he does so, the nato alliance will look completely fragmented, completely weakened, and that will only benefit vladimir putin. so there's some very nuanced and important diplomacy here that antony blinken and joe biden have to achieve.