U.S. weighs tougher Russia sanctions after evidence of Bucha killings

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“This should open the eyes of those in the West that we should push harder on sanctions. There is no excuse to continue funneling billions of dollars to Putin through oil and gas sales,” said Edward Fishman, a former State Department official who worked on Russia sanctions policy during the Obama administration. “I’m confident we will end up with maximalist 10 out of 10, Iran-style sanctions on Russia. Events like this galvanize the West to do so. … I don’t see any rationale in waiting.

Current and former U.S. government officials and journalists on April 3 described the apparent withdrawal of some Russian military forces near Kyiv. “We need a 5th round of strong E.U. sanctions as soon as possible,” said Kaja Kallas, Estonia’s prime minister, on Twitter.The Ukrainian government has for weeks been urging the White House to expand its sanctions campaign to more dramatically cut Russia off from the global economy.

“The real problem they’re going to have with the sanctions response is it will be seen as insufficient pretty much no matter what you do. The humanitarian atrocity committed will always be much worse than a sanctions response,” Nephew said. “There’s nothing proportional to a massacre being committed.”

Take Russia’s toilet paper.

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After what you saw in Bucha, Irpen and Gostomel, buying Russian oil and gas is like buying human fat soap and leather lampshades from the Reich in 1943. The scale is different, but the essence is the same.

What's to consider? Do it, or be complicit in atrocities.

Biden should have placed the absolute stiffest penalties and sanctions on Russia from the outset instead of this weekly increasing of sanctions.

The time for looking at options is over. Action now. Help Ukraine now. Every day counts. Don’t waste days. Don’t hesitate and waste lives. Freedom deserves better than what we are offering.

How many more Ukrainians need to die and how many more Ukrainian women and children have to be raped to justify a decision to stiffen penalties? The time is now!

Create a no fly zone over Ukraine now or get down to history as those who let Putin winn and let the ukrainians die 😡 and Putin wont stop 😡

'Never again' means nothing to POTUS SecDef SecBlinken NATO vonderleyen BorisJohnson OlafScholz Bundeskanzler JustinTrudeau SecDef EmmanuelMacron. Stop cowering in the corner and send 🇺🇦fighter jets, drones, air defense systems, & long-range weapons.

'Stiffening the penalty' jesus christ already - PENALIZE RUSSIA. Make them face REAL consequences. We have been dragging our feet forever!!!!!

A hypocritical, despicable and hypocritical world. Where are you when America and NATO terrorists killed millions of people.. Curse on you because you never won and the world has multiplied into poles

What more do you need to see/consider Cut them off from swift entirely and full embargo!!

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