Ned Price: “President Biden likes to say that big nations don’t bluff. President Putin now knows that the United States wasn’t…”

These are about deterrent and defensive measures. They are in -- precisely in response to the current security environment in light of this increasingly threatening behavior by the Russian Federation.

Anderson, we are providing our Ukrainian partners, with precisely what they need, to fight, and to engage in self-defense. They've been doing so, with courage, with bravery, and with dignity, and will continue to do that.

If we don't stand up, to what the Russians are trying, to do, in Ukraine, we will undermine that international system, that international order.

These actions will severely impact Putin's inner circle, impede the Kremlin's use of its international reserves and limit its ability to fund ongoing destabilizing activities.