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Ron Johnson: “Sanctions are going to be very difficult to have any effect…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Senator Johnson on C-SPAN's Washington Journal

Published | Video Starts at 00:27

But you are on the Foreign Relations Committee as well. So let's start with Ukraine in this latest round of sanctions. The fourth round isn't enough. Probably not, but Sanctions are going to be very difficult to have any effect anyway. It's very difficult to target sanctions that don't also hurt Western interests as well. So as a result, you're never going to have Europeans signing on to real strong sanctions. (00:27–00:31)

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Asserts that sanctions against Russia are unlikely to be effective.

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