Linda Thomas-Greenfield: “To me, that represents the progress and the promise of America.”

So, we don`t want to treat them, even though they are a permanent member of the security council, they are not behaving with the responsibility that we would expect of a permanent member of the Security Council.

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 absolutely support Israel's right to defend itself from this brutal attack on its own territory that we all witnessed at over the weekend.

President Putin miscalculated. He miscalculated how strong our partnership with Europe (INAUDIBLE), and he miscalculated NATO.