And we haven't taken off any of the Sanctions that we have on all the Russian sanctions are still in place. I think what everybody has to remember, however, is that The minute we impose sanctions on Russia, if we did what everybody here wants us to do, and that is come in and crush them with more sanctions, we probably lose our ability to talk to them about the cease fire. And then who's talking to them? Because they don't talk to anybody else in Europe. They don't talk to anybody else in the world who is on our side of this thing and views it the way we do. (15:06–15:16)
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Asserts that imposing more sanctions on Russia could hinder ceasefire negotiations.
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