Linda Thomas-Greenfield: “I expressed to this committee early on my strong and, frankly, it was unacceptable, what I saw in terms of what the…”

We are stronger than we ever were before in terms of the European Union, NATO. All of this was not part of Putin`s plan. I think he thought that we would start to fray around the edges very, very quickly.

We have used the Security Council, we have used the General Assembly to isolate Russia, to condemn Russia, to kick Russia off of the Human Rights Council.

We certainly should look at what he`s doing in the same way. We saw the beginnings of what Hitler was doing. He has built a strategy around destroying a country, destroying a people, human rights violations have been committed, sexual…

But we have used the Security Council, we have used the General Assembly to isolate Russia, to condemn Russia, to kick Russia off of the Human Rights Council.