CNN CNN Newsroom With Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell February 23, 2022 19:56:00
If those sanctions had been stronger, would we be here today? >> i think it's a good question. i fear that perhaps we should've been stronger in 2014. the reasons that we weren't stronger in 2014, though, are many fold. as you heard earlier, we were surprised by the crimea annexation. we didn't expect that to happen. when we imposed sanctions in 2014, for the preceding 25 years the thrust of u.s. strategy toward russia from gorbachev on ward were to integrate russia into the global economy. this was a major sea change in u.s. policy toward russia in 2014. even though the sanctions in 2014 were...
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