Ben Cardin: “At some point the public rebels and all of a sudden does not support any longer which is otherwise such a positive step”

We imposed sanctions on the individual.

I introduced the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act as a way of saying that we will hold abusers accountable even if their own country does not.

You have found the Achilles hill of the Putin regime. They rape, torture and kill with impunity and keep their ill-gotten gains in the West.

If Putin hates this so much, we're sure that there are a lot of other dictators who would hate this as well.