09/12/2012
https://www.congress.gov...
"These sanctions may not have altered Putin's strategic calculus in the Ukraine, but they have raised a cost to his actions."
"I think it is a seminal event when a country launches cruise missiles from 900 miles away on a target that--on targets that are the people that we have supported, trained, and equipped, and sent in to..."
"How can the United States stand by and do nothing?"
"Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea forced a recognition... that we're confronting a challenge..."