Should Biden Be Tougher on Russia?

Here’s the Scoop

The Biden administration is facing demands from Capitol Hill for a swifter, harsher response to Russia’s land grab – even from some Democrats.

Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia said that the US needed to put down a flag and to correctly define the pending dispatch of “peacekeepers” to eastern Ukraine.

“That’s an invasion by any sense of the imagination,” he said, adding that the most consequential sanctions ever against Moscow must immediately follow.

Two leading Republican lawmakers laid into the Biden administration.

“As we’ve said for months, setting the trigger for meaningful sanctions to Russian tanks rolling across Ukraine’s border was a dangerous mistake,” said Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, the lead Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Mike Rogers of Alabama, the top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee.

“We must immediately impose real costs for this blatant act of aggression and flagrant violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. Unfortunately, the sanctions previewed by the White House thus far are the definition of impotence,” the two Republicans wrote.

Source: CNN