...not going to win him any friends in the MSM.Remarks by resident Biden on Russia’s Unprovoked and Unjustified Attack on Ukraine
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
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SPEECHES AND REMARKS
East Room
1:43 P.M. EST
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/02/24/remarks-by-president-biden-on-russias-unprovoked-and-unjustified-attack-on-ukraine/ Q Thank you, resident Biden. If sanctions cannot stop President Putin, what penalty can?
THE RESIDENT: I didn’t say sanctions couldn’t stop him.
Q But you’ve been talking about the threat of these sanctions
for several weeks now —
THE RESIDENT: Yes, but the threat of the sanctions and imposing the sanctions and seeing the effect of the sanctions are two different things.
Q Okay, but —
THE RESIDENT: They’re two different things. And we’re now going to — he’s going to begin to see the effect of the sanctions.
Q And what will that do — how will that change his mindset here, given he’s attacking Ukraine as we speak?
THE RESIDENT: Because it will so weaken his country that he’ll have to make a very, very difficult choices of whether to continue to move toward being a second-rate power or, in fact, respond.
Q You said, in recent weeks, that big nations cannot bluff when it comes to something like this. You recently said that the idea of personally sanctioning President Putin was on the table. Is that a step that you’re prepared to take? And if not —
THE RESIDENT: It’s not a bluff; it’s on the table.
Q Sanctioning President Putin?
THE RESIDENT: Yes.
Q Why not sanction him today, sir? Why not sanction him today, sir?
Q Mr. resident —