evidence: The U.S. has long opposed the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, President Biden threatened that "[i]f Russia invades...there will no longer be a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it." Earlier, Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland (who has worked hand in glove with the Biden family on Ukraine matters since 2014) stated that "[i]f Russia invades Ukraine, one way or another Nord Stream 2 will not move forward." After the explosion, the Biden administration expressed satisfaction. Nuland said, "the administration is very gratified to know that Nord Stream 2 is now...a hunk of metal at the bottom of the sea." Secretary of State Blinken stated that the pipelines' destruction provided a "tremendous strategic opportunity for the years to come." [...] Even if Biden followed his own current rhetoric, an attack on the Nord Stream pipelines would still demand congressional approval. The Russian invasion of Ukraine did not, and does not, pose an imminent threat to the United States. Destroying a civilian pipeline serving German consumers and industry would normally constitute an act of war. The fact that Russia is currently armed with thousands of nuclear weapons and is engaged in a brutal war in Ukraine belies any claim that the use of force at issue is "of a limited nature, scope, and duration."