there is no reason. And, you know, those people in the leaderships of Western democracies for so many years, I must say, turned a blind eye to the abuses of democracy, human rights, and rule of law by Putin domestically.
Western leaders ignored Putin's domestic human rights abuses.
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If one-tenth of those sanctions that were imposed over the past two weeks had been imposed a decade ago, we would not be here today.
And we know from history how the appeasement of dictators ends. It always ends the same way.
the only strategic solution to this, the only way to stop this unceasing streak of crimes, repressions, and wars of aggression is to have Vladimir Putin finally out of power.
As we discussed earlier, we believe that sanction tools such as the Magnitsky Act should not be exclusively used to countries like Russia.