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Second, we would support ukraine to build support for ukraine in the International Community, and reassure our allies and partners, and let me spend a few minutes on those. With regards to russia, the goals were simple and straightforward. We needed to impose costs for the actions russia had taken. We saw to deter russia from taking further irresponsible actions, and we hoped to shape the decision space that Vladimir Putin and the russian government would take going forward. You all know the litany of things that happened in the immediate weeks following the incursion into crimea. There was the suspension from the g8, the efforts in the United Nations to isolate russia politically, and we saw that with the very significant vote withe security council, china even abstaining and not siding with russia, and then wi ....