Democrats and the GOP slam Putin for ignoring western warnings and moving forward with a evil full-scale invasion of Ukraine and demand Biden issue crippling sanctions on Russia.
The U.S. expelled from Washington Russia s second-ranking diplomat in the U.S., Minister Counselor Sergey Trepelkov, a State Department official revealed Thursday.
Many aides to Biden felt from the get go sanctions would not scare Putin into changing course and not invading Ukraine, despite officials spending five months debating and crafting the punishments.