what purpose do the sanctions serve? up until today, the white house said the sanctions are meant to be a deterrent. we re not going to announce them until russia invaded ukraine because the hope is that the threat of these sanctions would stop russia from invading. zblfr now the u.s. is saying they determined that russia has begun to invade ukraine. that the first attempt at deterence using the sanctions, they were a failure, right? so going forward what the u.s. would like to see is that the threat of more sanctions would deter further invasion of the kind of invasion that would cause mass casualties, horrific scenario where an invasion could attack and really take aim at a city like kyiv. but that is the hope right now and so far those attempts at using sanctions as deterrents, that didn t stop the beginning of a russian invasion.
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going to be headed their way. but a question that the white house is now grappling with is what purpose do these sanctions serve? because, don, remember, up until today, the white house said the sanctions are meant to be a deterrent. we re not going to announce them until russia invaded ukraine because the hope is that the threat of these sanctions would stop russia from invading. so now we know because the u.s. is saying they are determined that russia has begun to invade ukraine that the first attempt at deterrence using these sanctions, they were a failure, right? so going forward what the u.s. would like to see is that the threat of more sanctions would deter further invasion of the kind of invasion that would cause mass casualties, horrific scenario where an invasion could attack and really take aim at a city like kyiv. but that is the hope right now and so far, again, those attempts at using sanctions as deterrents, that didn t stop the beginning of a russian invasion.
extracted a sort of guarantee of security from president lukashenko that this ukrainian delegation will be safe when they troofl to go and meet with this russian delegation. meanwhile, though, the situation on the ground has been a continuous barrage from the russian side, but they have definitely been finding themselves encountering much stiffer resistance, as you mentioned, according to u.s. intelligence sources. but just what we re seeing on the grounds, the expectation had been that a city like kyiv would fall in one today fours. we re now on day four. they ve thwarted russian tanks in the western part of the city. while we did hear a lot of explosions last night, one that particularly targeted a fuel depot, it is now earlier it was pretty noisy. but now it seems to be a bit quieter. that may be because every side
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