Rep. Meijer says Russia sanctions don't go far enough: Biden's messaging 'similar to Afghanistan'

Rep. Peter Meijer sits on the House Foreign Affairs committee joined ‘Fox & Friends First’ to express frustration with the sanctions on Russia from Biden. Meijer states how sanctions need to be ‘merciless’ including economic isolation.

REP. PETER MEIJER: Just two weeks ago, national security adviser Sullivan said that they were intended to deter. And yesterday, President Biden said that no one should have been under that impression. So I think there is similar messaging as in Afghanistan, where they're trying to backwards rationalize that the sanctions that were unveiled yesterday were good. They should have been the sanctions unveiled a week ago. I'm frustrated that they did not go far enough. These were not the ‘mother of all sanctions’ that we were promised. These did not include de-linking Russia from the SWIFT global currency system. It did not involve direct sanctions against Putin himself. We need to be merciless in terms of the economic isolation of Russia, of Vladimir Putin, of Belarus, Lukashenko, most especially of the billionaire oligarchs that have enriched themselves off of corruption and Putin's Russia.

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