{"id":1091338,"date":"2021-12-06T19:46:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T00:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1091338"},"modified":"2021-12-06T19:46:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T00:46:47","slug":"dem-rep-himes-bidens-sanctions-threat-on-russia-isnt-enough-need-to-arm-ukraine-get-europe-to-stop-buying-their-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-rep-himes-bidens-sanctions-threat-on-russia-isnt-enough-need-to-arm-ukraine-get-europe-to-stop-buying-their-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem Rep. Himes: Biden&#039;s Sanctions Threat on Russia Isn&#039;t Enough, Need to Arm Ukraine, Get Europe to Stop Buying Their Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">42<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdem-rep-himes-bidens-sanctions-threat-on-russia-isnt-enough-need-to-arm-ukraine-get-europe-to-stop-buying-their-energy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1091338&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Jim-Himes-fingers-pinched-ap-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Monday\u2019s broadcast of CNN\u2019s \u201cSituation Room,\u201d Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) stated that the threat of sanctions alone isn\u2019t enough to deter Russian aggression towards Ukraine and urged President Joe Biden to make it clear to Russia that the U.S. will arm Ukraine with defensive weapons. Himes also said that Biden \u201cneeds to make sure that Vladimir Putin understands that the Europeans will stop buying energy, that the sanctions will be global, and that going into Ukraine could mean the end of his regime, it would be that costly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Himes said, \u201cWhen Vladimir Putin moved into Crimea, he got slapped on the wrist, or at least he perceived that as a slap on the wrist. And now, if he sees an opening to move into Ukraine, where does it stop? And so, the stakes are enormously high. Vladimir Putin and Russia cannot invade Ukraine. The world cannot sustain a norm where, just because you, as Vladimir Putin, happen to think that the Ukrainians aren\u2019t a real country, well, geez, that\u2019s excuse to go in.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>He continued, \u201cSo, no, Wolf, I don\u2019t think the threat of sanctions are enough. A wise Russia hand once said to me that when you\u2019re thinking about sanctions on Russia, remember that these are the people who survived the siege of Stalingrad, right? One of the worst moments of World War II. So, I think two things are really critical: Number one, this cannot be sanctions only. I think the president needs to make it very clear to Vladimir Putin that we will arm the Ukrainians with defensive weaponry, that we will do everything we can to make sure that if he goes across the border, the cost in lives and money to the Russians will be huge. The other thing he needs to do is he needs to make sure that he\u2019s speaking on behalf of the world, right? This is not a U.S.-Russia thing. The world can\u2019t sustain a new, Putinesque norm that says that countries can invade each other. So, the president needs to make sure that Vladimir Putin understands that the Europeans will stop buying energy, that the sanctions will be global, and that going into Ukraine could mean the end of his regime, it would be that costly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Ian&nbsp;Hanchett on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IanHanchett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@IanHanchett<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday\u2019s broadcast of CNN\u2019s \u201cSituation Room,\u201d Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) stated that the threat of sanctions alone isn\u2019t enough to deter Russian aggression towards Ukraine and urged President Joe &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}