On Tuesday, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said that President Biden and the US’s European allies will be announcing further sanctions against Russia this week as the Western powers continue their economic campaign against Moscow.
“He will join our partners in imposing further sanctions on Russia and tightening the existing sanctions to crack down on evasion and to ensure robust enforcement,” Sullivan said.
Biden is expected to make the announcement on Thursday when he is in Brussels, where he will attend an emergency NATO meeting and join a European Council summit. The following day, Biden will travel to Poland, where he will meet with President Andrzej Duda.
Sullivan wouldn’t specify what the new sanctions will entail but said they would enforce current sanctions by “ensuring that there is joint effort to crack down on evasion, sanctions busting, on any attempt by any country to help Russia basically undermine, weaken, or get around the sanctions.”
Besides the sanctions, Biden is expected to discuss the US and NATO’s military posture in Europe. There are currently more than 100,000 US troops in Europe for the first time since 2005 as the US built up its forces in countries that border Ukraine and Russia, and more could be deployed.
A Pentagon official said Tuesday that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who is joining Biden in Brussels and Poland, has not ruled out deploying even more troops to Eastern Europe.
Nonsense. They’ve shot their wad. There are no more sanctions they can impose that are in any way worse than sanctioning the Russian Central Bank. Go view Alexander Mercouris’ videos on this issue.
Sullivan, along with Blinken and Nuland, must be the absolute worst members of any “administration” which cared even a little for peace, cooperation, harmony, even life itself. How can such people even be employed in decisions of life and death for all of us? This is not an exaggeration, when we see Biden’s call with Xi Jinping then the arrogant, hubristic immediate “sanctions” on the People’s Republic of China.
At this point I expect Biden to announce sanctions against the planet Krypton.
No sh-t! It seems a bit maddening. Way over the top…
Superman is lobbying for that.
Even Superman has a breaking point (kryptonite)…
To borrow a line from the classic Russian film ‘Alexander Nevsky’ (which, even though it deals with issues dating back to the 1200’s, has some parallels with today’s events), “Even a sparrow will fight when cornered.” Those who paint Russia as a paper tiger and who think they can push and prod that nation any way they want could be in for a very rude awakening if Moscow, President Putin, and the Russian people see themselves with no option but to come out swinging- and we know they have the potential to land a devastating haymaker if they are pushed to that point.
I wonder if they actually undrstand that they are bat shit crazy.
They are in their own world. In time they might just strike a nerve with the real world and DC cherry trees will be decorated with nooses.
Is someone looking to start a war?
Yes, Biden is going to start a Sanction War…!
I guess we are getting back at Russia for their role in “encouraging” the world to condemn the 2003 criminal invasion of Iraq by imposing sanctions on the US and flooding Iraq with lethal weaponry. Oh, they didn’t?
Since we cannot fight them…Let’s sanction them…!
Pentagon said Russia combat capability is down 90%…! So they can be easily defeated by NATO, right…?! Why then Sanctions…???!!!
The headline I saw was that they said Russian combat capability was down TO 90%.
As to what that means, even if true, it’s hard to tell. If they’re using the military meaning of “combat effectiveness,” a conventionally organized military unit needs to get down to 70-80% of people and equipment capable of operating to be “combat ineffective.”
European allies are US satraps who do what we tell them.