presence of combat troops right near the border with ukraine in the last two weeks. somewhere in the 100,000, 130,000 range and they've been moving closer to the border in field camps. they've been moving up. the kinds of resources that you would need to actually make a military attack and so i think to talk about de-escalation is not where we're at right now. doesn't mean it's impossible to foresee but it's not happening right now. >> president biden has said several timss that if russia invades, then the nord stream 2 gas pipeline from russia to germany won't go ahead. listen. >> if russia invades, that means tanks or troops crossing the border of ukraine again, then there will be -- there will be no longer a nord stream 2. we'll bring an end to it. >> the german chancellor during his visit to the white house