Vice President Kamala Harris exchanged platitudes with world leaders at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Friday as Russia continued its military buildup along the border with Ukraine — and America’s own border crisis showed little sign of slowing down.

The veep did not take any questions from reporters after a day of meetings with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, Latvian President Eglis Levits, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda and Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas.

In canned remarks during her meeting with Stoltenberg, Harris insisted the US would hit Russia with “severe consequences” if Moscow chose to invade Ukraine.

“We remain, of course, open to and desirous of diplomacy, as it relates to the dialogue and the discussions we have had with Russia,” she said, “but we are also committed, if Russia takes aggressive action, to ensure there will be severe consequence[s] in terms of the sanctions we have discussed. And we know the alliance is strong in that regard.”

“I also welcome the fact that European allies are stepping up, also increasing their presence in the eastern border of the alliance and also investing more in defense,” Stoltenberg dutifully intoned. “So the reality is that North America and Europe are doing more together now that we’ve done for many years.”

The snooze-inducing statements took place as the US envoy to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe estimated that Moscow has massed between 169,000 and 190,000 military personnel “in and near” Ukraine, up from approximately 100,000 as of Jan. 30.

By contrast, the US has sent 5,000 troops to Germany and Poland to bolster NATO forces, while shifting 1,000 more forces from Germany to Romania — like Poland, a NATO member that borders Ukraine. President Biden has repeatedly stated that no US forces will enter Ukrainian territory in response to an invasion, even to assist Americans who wish to leave the country.

Harris’ trip to Munich has drawn ire from Republican lawmakers who questioned why the veep was chosen to represent the US during a European border crisis given her notable lack of success at stemming the tide of illegal immigration across the US-Mexico frontier.

“She can’t even get our southern border secured, which Biden made her responsibility months ago!” Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) tweeted Thursday.

“It would be great if Kamala Harris did her job and secured our southern border before flying to Ukraine to help secure theirs!” Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.) said in a post. 

Harris was tapped by Biden last March to lead the administration’s effort at stemming the flow of migrants. Instead, encounters along the southern border skyrocketed in 2021, reaching a record high of more than 213,000 migrants apprehended in July.

On Tuesday, two days before Harris departed for Munich, the Department of Homeland Security revealed in a court filing first obtained by Fox News that nearly 154,000 illegal immigrants had been taken into custody last month — a drop of 14 percent from the number apprehended in December, but nearly twice as many as the 78,414 encounters in January 2021 and more than four times the number of encounters from January 2020.

Biden did not accompany Harris on her European trip this week, instead staying back on Thursday for an event in Ohio. 

The president, however, did not shy away from giving a stark warning of a Russian invasion, telling reporters he believed Moscow would invade Ukraine in a matter of days. 

“They [Russia] have not moved any of their troops out, they’ve moved more troops in, number one,” he said. “Number two, we have reason to believe that they are engaged in a false flag operation to have an excuse to go in.”

“Every indication we have,” Biden added, “is that they are prepared to go into Ukraine, attack Ukraine.”

On Friday, the White House hastily added a 4 p.m. speech on Ukraine to the president’s schedule, with Harris set to give a major speech of her own at the Munich conference early Saturday.