Obama balked at Biden's assertion that Russia should 'pay in blood and money' after 2014 invasion: book
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The former president disagreed with Biden's stance that Russia should pay a high cost after the Crimea invasion in 2014, a new book reveals.
"The Obama administration did little in response except to provide Ukraine with defensive weapons, sanction the Kremlin, and kick Russia out of the Group of Eight, turning the G8 into the G7," writes Ward. "The United States might have done more had Barack Obama's vice president, Joe Biden, been in charge. Russia should 'pay in blood and money' for its actions, Biden told his boss as the 2014 invasion began. Obama disagreed, but he made Biden his effective ambassador to Ukraine during the crisis." Jamie Joseph is a writer who covers politics. She leads Fox News Digital coverage of the Senate.
Later, Obama told Biden not to "overpromise anything" to Ukraine, the book states. But the chasm between the two continued to widen as Biden continued to foster his alliance by further pledging his support for the Eastern European nation.
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