“No One Expected Sanctions Would Prevent Anything”
Among the revealing data points in yesterday's news was President Brandon's remark to the press , “no one expected sanctions would prevent anything.” The story at the link asks the obvious questions: Huh, what? Then what has the Biden team been talking about, by threatening sanctions over the past month? If they thought that, why have they just been talking about sanctions? Why did Kamala Harris claim that the sanctions would deter Putin? Biden also tripped over White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, who said the same thing. . . . Biden’s statement was such a stunning lie and flip-flop on what his team had been saying that even CBS News’ Margaret Brennan called it out. “I thought that was so interesting when President Biden said, ‘No one expected sanctions to prevent anything, Brennan said. “Actually, that’s exactly what his foreign policy team said again and again, and it’s what his secretary of state said to me on Sunday.” My own view is that the remark is compl...