{"id":1095490,"date":"2021-12-07T16:58:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T21:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1095490"},"modified":"2021-12-07T16:58:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T21:58:37","slug":"exclusive-speak-loudly-and-carry-a-small-stick-republicans-blast-bidens-response-to-putins-escalation-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-speak-loudly-and-carry-a-small-stick-republicans-blast-bidens-response-to-putins-escalation-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: \u2018Speak Loudly And Carry A Small Stick\u2019: Republicans Blast Biden\u2019s Response To Putin\u2019s Escalation In Ukraine"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fexclusive-speak-loudly-and-carry-a-small-stick-republicans-blast-bidens-response-to-putins-escalation-in-ukraine%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=1095490&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--><p>Republicans blasted President Joe Biden\u2019s efforts to prevent a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine as \u201cweak\u201d and \u201cembarrassing\u201d hours after Biden held a call Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans from all corners of the party criticized Biden after he only threatened an economic response should Russia move forward with an invasion of Ukraine. Both White House press secretary Jen Psaki and national security adviser Jake Sullivan refused to state whether the U.S. or NATO would be willing to take direct military action to defend Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Speak loudly and carry a small stick\u2019 is a weak game plan,\u201d Republican Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse told the Daily Caller in a Tuesday statement. \u201cBiden has given Putin the upper hand at almost every turn: letting Russia dictate reciprocal diplomatic representation, waiving sanctions on NordStream 2, and turning the page from Paul Whelan and Alexei Navalny\u2019s unjust imprisonment.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7332710\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7332710\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 DECEMBER 06: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks about the Build Back Better legislation\u2019s new rules around prescription drug prices in the East Room of the White House on December 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Biden administration removed former President Donald Trump\u2019s sanctions against the NordStream 2 pipeline soon after gaining office. The project, which is now virtually complete, allows for the mass transportation of oil directly from Russia to Germany. Biden is now using the threat of renewed sanctions against NordStream 2 to leverage Putin away from invading Ukraine, but former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley says that ship has already sailed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden should have already stopped NordStream 2,\u201d Haley said in a statement provided to the Caller. \u201cTo offer it as a threat now is weak and embarrassing. He already handed Putin exactly what he wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reporters also pressed the White House on the message Biden\u2019s Ukraine response may send to China at Tuesday\u2019s press briefing. China has long mirrored Russia\u2019s aggression toward Ukraine with its own threats to retake Taiwan by force.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome observers have described a nightmare scenario where President Putin invades Ukraine and also simultaneously President Xi uses force to reunify Taiwan with China. Is the U.S. prepared to deal with such a scenario?\u201d a reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y4EoJAGDt30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asked Sullivan.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States is going to take every action that we can take, from the point of view of both deterrence and diplomacy, to make sure that the Taiwan scenario you just described never happens, and to try to avert the invasion into Urkaine,\u201d Sullivan said. \u201cThat is the object of our policy right now. Those are the steps we\u2019re taking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump argued Biden\u2019s vow of economic action against Russia only confirms the message Biden\u2019s \u201cpathetic\u201d withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan sent to world leaders in August and September.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVladimir Putin looks at our pathetic surrender in Afghanistan, leaving behind dead Soldiers, American citizens, and $85 billion worth of Military equipment. He then looks at Biden. He is not worried,\u201d the former president said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Russian troops have continued to amass along the Ukrainian border, and U.S. intelligence officials believe that Moscow is prepping for a full-scale offensive against Ukraine as early as the next few weeks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/russia-ukraine-invasion\/2021\/12\/03\/98a3760e-546b-11ec-8769-2f4ecdf7a2ad_story.html\">according<\/a>&nbsp;to The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe troop movements have involved the addition of battalion tactical groups around Ukraine in multiple, different geographies around those borders \u2013 to the south, the west, and to the northeast as well,\u201d a senior Biden administration official <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/07\/joe-biden-russian-vladimir-putin-ukraine-economic-harm-sanctions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told reporters<\/a> in a Tuesday call. \u201cAnd we have also seen, as Secretary [Antony] Blinken said last week, a significant spike in social media activity pushing anti-Ukrainian propaganda, which is approaching levels that we last saw in the lead up to <span class=\"il\">Russia<\/span>\u2018s invasion of Ukraine in 2014. \u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans blasted President Joe Biden\u2019s efforts to prevent a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine as \u201cweak\u201d and \u201cembarrassing\u201d hours after Biden held a call Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin.Republicans &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"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-1095490","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\/1095490","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\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095490\/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=1095490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}