Ben Cardin: “The fact that Russia is enabling the Assad regime to break any form of standards as far as the use of chemical weapons.”

If we are going to carry this as a value on the international stage, that the United States stands up for human rights and certain values and the rule of law, is it not important that we be willing to apply these sanctions to accomplish…

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.

We need to consider how we deal with that.

It was originally a piece of legislation targeting the people who killed Sergei Magnitsky.