Antony Blinken actually said...

"I think this partnership has the potential to be one of the most important and foundational partnerships that we have going forward, over the next decades."

"I think a number of factors came into play. I think he saw Ukraine moving inexorably to the west, to Europe, and he saw nothing that was going to interrupt that process."

"This is, as Chairman Leahy said, a very, very dramatic problem that already existed of course, and has been exacerbated by Russia's aggression, by the invasion."

"Very simply, end this aggression. End it now."