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John Thune: “It doesn't do any good to have the United States…”

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Published | Video Starts at 14:04

And I think it'd be, I think it'd be very useful for us to send that message to the Russians, but we also need to have it amplified by the Europeans. And that's one of the things the administration is working on. It doesn't do any good to have the United States unilaterally going to all these countries and sanctioning them and then having the Europeans buying energy from them. That undermines the effort entirely. So but I think that, you know, this is a obviously one of those issues where I think there's bipartisan support and I think support for Ukraine in their war against Russia is something you'll hear a lot more about. (14:04–14:14)

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Asserts that U.S. sanctions are undermined if Europe continues buying energy from sanctioned countries.

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