We are not going to allow this tactic, which is where Russia tries to invade half a country with provocations.

I think it would be a way of further destabilizing Ukraine.

We have article 5 obligations that if we do not fulfill, the NATO alliance is finished.

This is not an argument to abandon them in their time of need.

The future of Ukraine matters more to Russia than it matters to the United States.

He does not believe he needs to send tanks in in order to gain influence.

We should respond. We should be robust in that response, but we should not be expected to care about this as much as the Russians do.

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I am going to stay outside Ukraine and maybe use a quick second round to talk about Ukraine.

We need every child in this country to be able to fulfill their potential if our military is saying they do not have enough qualified people.

the door remains open. It is something we strongly support.

Today obviously circumstances have changed.

There is a battle for the hearts and minds of the people there as to whether they are going to orient toward Europe or back toward Russia.

This hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on European Affairs will now come to order.

I think the noisier we are about that longer term commitment, the better.

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the more successful we are making sure that that election is free and fair, the more worried we have to be about Russia's intentions once they see the writing on the wall.

Our response should be to do everything that Russia does not want us to do.

it is difficult to understand how the French could continue to sell ships to Russia that are identical to the ones that were used in the illegal invasion and occupation of Crimea.

I think we are beyond the point of treading lightly. I think we are beyond the point of worrying about provoking Russia.

We have one of these community health center residency programs in Connecticut, run actually by a former Congressman from Connecticut, Jim Maloney, in Danbury.

That is not, just as Senator Warren said, to create an advertisement for divesting in traditional residency programs.