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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/sports/guy-benson-biden-administration-messaging-on-sanctions-incoherent/vi-AAVuEva

https://www.newsweek.com/biden-says-sanctions-werent-meant-deter-putin-invading-ukraine-1691590

"Sanctions never deter," Biden said during a Thursday press conference at a NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium. "The maintenance of sanctions, increasing the pain and the demonstration [is] why I asked for this NATO meeting today, is to be sure that after a month, we will sustain what we're doing, not just next month, the following month, but for the remainder of this entire year."

"The single most important thing is for us to stay unified and [for] the world continue to focus on what a brute [Putin] is, and all the innocent people's lives are being lost and ruined....That's the important thing," he added. "If you're Putin and you think that Europe is going to crack in a month or six weeks or two months, [that] they can take anything for another month....We have to stay fully, totally thoroughly united."
(Compiled by columnist Jordan Candler, 3/25/22)

“I did not say that in fact the sanctions would deter [Vladimir Putin]. Sanctions never deter.”
- Joe Biden, 3/24/22

“The president believes that sanctions are intended to deter.”
- National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, February 11

“The purpose of the sanctions has always been and continues to be deterrence.”
- Vice President Kamala Harris, February 20

“The purpose of the sanctions in the first instance is to try to deter Russia from going to war.”
- Secretary of State Antony Blinken, February 20

“We want them to have a deterrent effect, clearly.”
- Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby, February 21

“Sanctions can be a powerful tool. … Yes, our intention is to have a deterrent effect.”
- White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, February 22

“Sanctions are not an end to themselves. They serve a higher purpose. And that purpose is to deter and prevent.”
- Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics Daleep Singh, February 22