U-S Senator Bill Cassidy supports strong economic sanctions against Russia as reports indicate Russian forces have moved into eastern Ukraine and Cassidy says this establishes Russian President Vladimir Putin as an enemy of freedom. He says sanctions worked against Russia when President Ronald Regan was in office.
“He got the Saudis to flood the world with cheap oil, all of sudden the Russians who are a petrostate did not have the income to support their Army,” said Cassidy.
Cassidy says Louisiana can help play a role in weakening Russia financially as that country relies heavily on revenue from natural gas.
“If we are shipping our natural gas from our shore via LNG tankers to the European Union and if we help pipelines go from countries like Israel into the EU then the Russians have less money,” said Cassidy.
President Biden announced new sanctions against Russia on Tuesday afternoon that he says go beyond what was implemented against them in 2014. He says the United States is cutting off Russia’s major financial institutions from the west and sanctioning Russia’s sovereign debt.
Louisiana Congressman Mike Johnson blames the Biden Administration for not doing more sooner.
“We’ve been saying for a long time there are many steps that could have been taken along the way to prevent this moment that we are facing right now, but the White House failed to act, and so now we are in this dilemma,” said Johnson.
Johnson says it’s probably too late to avoid a conflict at this point.
“President Biden has had what appears to be an appeasement strategy and that is the worst possible thing you can do with a bully like Putin, all he responds to is strength,” said Johnson.
Biden says he’s authorized additional movements of US forces and equipment to strengthen their Baltic allies, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
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