we know tanks are coming in from poland. there s been a wide host of military equipment and weapons being sent from the u.s. government. can you characterize the position of the biden administration on what they think of a feasible outcome of the worries, which is to say, some say this is an attempt to bleed russia dry. the mckayla sprinklers possible. and there are others who say, no, this is an item three green to actually effectuate a military victory, and essentially digestible and story. what is the goal here of the biden administration would these arms? so, our goal is number one, we want ukraine to win. one of the be successful in the battlefield as they were in kyiv. want them to be successful everywhere and repel the russians from their country. and number two, we want to swear to be a strategic failure for russia. and that has been the goal of our policy. and that s why we have long weapons, who search weapons and keeping tell them the fandom selves, and then each of those
selves, and then each of those weapons have changed over time, as the nature of the battle has changed. and number two, we have imposed severe sanctions and other economic measures, passport control, and others, on russian delimited s ability, number one, to finance this war. and a limited stability to project power long term. so we targeted our measures at sectors of the russian economy that we know are important for president putin s ability due to project power. the defense sector, aviation sector, shipbuilding, because we know these are ways to limit his ability not just to win this war, but he uses power to threaten and coerce other neighbors in the region. quickly, is there tangible evidence that those sanctions are having the desired effect? yes, there absolutely is. if you look at the fact of the russian economy is expected to decline 15% this year, and that of the russian central bank came out just last week and said, we are now the point where the sanctions are really abo