President Biden condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as being “without justification or necessity” Thursday as he announced new sanctions and export restrictions against Moscow — but reiterated that no troops would be sent to Ukrainian soil, declined to sanction Russian President Vladimir Putin personally and admitted that America’s European allies were opposed to kicking Russia out of a key global banking system.
In remarks from the East Room of the White House, a visibly angry Biden called Putin “the aggressor” in Europe’s worst conflict since World War II.
“Putin chose this war. Now he and his country will bear the consequences,” the president added.
Despite the big talk, Biden was forced to deny that the threat of sanctions against Putin’s personal wealth was a bluff, insisting under questioning that such a move was “still on the table.”
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