russians pulled a similar move. they marshaled troops along their border and eventually as tensions grew, they withdrew. there were also major war games in that same region by the russians over the fall. this is not new, what's new now is that both sides, the u.s. and the russians are saying that the tensions are reaching sky-high levels. and that's why we heard that vladimir putin and joe biden met virtually to have a discussion about what was going along on the border. and these discussions, they didn't yield any breakthroughs. there were no major decisions. nobody made any big agreements, but it was the first time that these two met in a couple of months, and it shows that there is some level of dialogue. it was kind of almost a throwback to that cold war dance, where both sides raised tensions and then kind of meet and diffuse them together. but it doesn't sound as if there were any major breakthroughs like that this time around, though this meeting of the minds did yield what a lot of good