sanctions, a strategy that failed in the past to prevent russian aggression. russia is still in control of crimeia, still present in eastern ukraine. why stick with that strategy, given it has not successfully deterred russia in the past? , you correctly described what we ve seen on the border and i ll remind you it was the united states that has raised alarm bells what was an increasing and is an increasing russian military presence on the ukraine border and what russia might be willing to do with the forces. we ve been saying that publicly and going out in tremendous detail to our partners and allies and making sure they share the same assessment we have, based on intelligence of what exactly the situation is, but i think you have undersold what we have said will be our response to this situation if russia goes in. significant, severe economic sanctions are a part of our response. we also described an increase in nato force posture, in allied states and described that we will increa
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