“No one expected the sanctions to prevent anything from happening.” Biden said Thursday, as he announced new sanctions on Russia in response for its invasion into eastern Ukraine.
Yet on Sunday, Vice President Kamala Harris had taken a different tune.
“The purpose of the sanctions has always been and continues to be deterrence,” she said.
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The chaos in Ukraine marks Biden’s second major foreign policy disaster of his presidency, the first being the chaotic and deadly withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan last August.