President Biden says “none of us will be fooled by the Russian incursion in Ukraine, that the U.S. is sanctioning Russian financial firms, cutting off Russia from relieving debt anywhere in the West.He say equipment +troops will be in place to protect Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.
President Biden announced the “first tranche” in a series of tough sanctions against 2 Russian banks, VEB and Russia’s military bank. He condemned what he called Putin’s “bizarre” recognition of two separatist republics. “He’s setting up a rationale to go much further.”
Biden said Russia’s sovereign debt will be sanctioned so Russia “can no longer raise money from the West and cannot trade its new debt on our markets or European markets either.” Biden said sanctions on Russian elites would be rolled out tomorrow.
“Who in the Lord’s name does Putin think gives him the right to declare new so-called countries in territories that belong to his neighbors?” Biden was firm that we will not have our troops fighting in Ukraine. And, we will feel a consequence of war, including higher gas prices.
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