Good thing Vivek Ramaswamy is a nobody & a clown.
This comment is a breath of fresh air.
Finally figuring out that war is economics with violence. Our sanctions have been half assed from the start, and need to include some serious pressure on any country not abiding by them.
We've known that...
It's why these were already things with other countries like North Korea.
Fuck russia, including the republican traitor filth.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The order will provide the Treasury Department with authority to issue so-called “secondary sanctions”, which will target banks and other financial institutions that facilitate the business of companies involved in the importing of technology required for the assembly of arms and munitions for Russia’s military.
Previously, such secondary sanctions authority had been primarily used against companies working with corporate and other interests tied to Iran and North Korea, and has been credited with the effectiveness of isolating those countries from the US financial system.
Several candidates for the Republican nomination including most notably Vivek Ramaswamy have embraced a skepticism of the US’s strategic alliance with Ukraine and oppose sending further aid to the Ukrainian defence effort.
White House officials at the press secretary’s daily briefing as well as on a background call Thursday also expressed the urgency for Congress to pass legislation authorising further financial support for Ukraine, explaining that money was running out and that the US risked seeing the Ukrainian military’s gains against Russia lost in the months ahead as a result.
Though the effectiveness of sanctions against Russia’s economy remains up for debate, the White House insisted on Thursday that the Biden administration’s efforts to punish the Russian defence sector were irrefutably working.
This week’s announcement followed an expansion of existing sanctions authority to more than 150 third-country private entities connected to the Russian arms trade earlier in December.
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