During news coverage on the eve of President Joe Biden’s press conference following the emergency NATO summit in Brussels, ABC World news tonight Russia has completely ignored Biden’s retreat about the purpose of the sanctions. Biden switched sides on Thursday, saying they would not allow Russia to invade Ukraine. Despite ABC’s silence on Biden’s flip-flop, both CBS Evening News And NBC Nightly News Biden’s comments have been publicized.
As Newsbusters previously reported, Biden bathed CBS News correspondent Christina Rufini when asked. “Do you think that Vladimir Putin must change based on the steps you have taken today?” Biden then cried: “Let’s get straight to the point, do you remember, if you cover me, I didn’t say from the beginning that sanctions would actually stop him. Prohibition never stops. You keep talking about that. Sanctions never stop. ”
After dusk, CBS Evening News The White House aired part of the exchange in their report on the new proposed sanctions “The so-called main offensive capability, which includes dozens of Russian defense companies and Russia’s lower house of parliament, the Duma, has more than 300 members.” They then hyped up part of Biden’s exchange with Rufini:
Biden: Sanctions never stop.
Nancy Cordes: The president acknowledges that the crippling international sanctions imposed so far could destroy Russia’s economy, but has not forced Putin to change course.
Biden: We’ll keep doing what we’re doing, just next month, not next month, for the rest of this whole year. That is what will stop him.
NBC Nightly News During their coverage, Biden’s confession adds much to the fact that Russian sanctions do little to deter them, as well as play a role in Vice President Kamala Harris’s insistence that they work.
White House Chief Correspondent Kristen Welker explains how The United States and its NATO allies have imposed significant sanctions on Russia over the attack, but those sanctions did not deter Putin. Welker added “The goal was initially stated by White House and Vice President Harris.”
Harris: The purpose of the embargo has always been and continues to be a deterrent.
WELKER: But today when the President is asked when bristling that strategy is not working.
Biden: I didn’t say that sanctions would stop him. Prohibition never stops. You keep talking about that. Prohibition never stops. The predominance of prohibition, the predominance of prohibition, the increase of pain. That is what will stop him.
Welker is certainly correct that the Biden administration insisted that sanctions would work to deter Putin from attacking. Newsbusters Associate Editor Kyle Drainen reports in the link above, “Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has explicitly told multiple media outlets that the economic sanctions were intended to deter Putin.”
On CNN Union StateSaid Palak “In the first instance, sanctions are intended to prevent Russia from going to war.” NBC time Meet the pressBlinken argued that the sanctions were structural “To do everything we can to stop him [Putin] From the course he is setting now. “
Biden’s flip-flop ABC blackout on the effectiveness of the Russian ban was made possible by Jersey Mike and Pacific Life. Their information is attached.
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CBS Evening News
3/24/2022
6:34:59 pm EastNancy Cordes: The White House has also unveiled new sanctions, calling it a key offensive capability, which includes dozens of Russian defense agencies and more than 300 members of Russia’s lower house of parliament, the Dumar.
President Joe Biden: Sanctions never stop.
Cordes: The president acknowledges that the crippling international sanctions imposed so far could destroy Russia’s economy, but has not forced Putin to change course.
Biden: We’ll keep doing what we’re doing, just next month, not next month, for the rest of this whole year. That is what will stop him.
NBC Nightly News
3/24/2022
7:02:53 pm EastKristen Welker: After warning that Vladimir Putin could use chemical and biological weapons in Ukraine tonight, President Biden announced at the emergency NATO summit that the United States would take action in the event of a chemical attack.
President Joe Biden: We will respond if he uses it, the nature of the response will depend on the nature of the use.
Welker: But there is no definite information on whether the military is on the table when the pressure is on.
Biden: It will trigger a kind of reaction. Whether you are asking whether NATO will cross or not, we will decide at that time.
Welker: The president is sending a vague message to Putin about the summit with NATO, G-7 and EU leaders.
Biden: He did not think that we could maintain this unity. NATO has never been as united as it is today. It’s the exact opposite of what Putin wanted.
Welker: Mr Biden and NATO are announcing new sanctions against Russia, including new sanctions on Russian lawmakers and বিল 1 billion in humanitarian aid for Ukraine. That money is part of a recently approved fund. But Ukrainian President Zelensky sharply criticized the United States and NATO for doing nothing more than speaking via video at the summit, saying Ukrainians were dying and had not yet shown what they could do to save lives by asking for NATO, quotes, tanks, fighter jets. . , And a no-fly zone. Zelenskyy says Ukraine is waiting for real action. Mr Biden, meanwhile, said he would push Russia out of the major economic bloc known as the G-20, and that China, which, like Europe, still buys Russian oil and gas, has not given Russia more troops. Help.
Biden: China understands that its economic future is much more closely linked with the West than with Russia. And so I’m hopeful he won’t get engaged.
Welker: So far, the United States and NATO allies have imposed significant sanctions for aggression against Russia, but those sanctions have not stopped Putin. The White House and Vice-President Harris initially said something that was the goal.
Vice President Kamala Harris: The purpose of sanctions has always been and continues to be a deterrent.
WELKER: But today when the President is asked when bristling that strategy is not working.
Biden: I didn’t say that sanctions would stop him. Prohibition never stops. You keep talking about that. Prohibition never stops. The predominance of prohibition, the predominance of prohibition, the increase of pain. That is what will stop him.