So we are standing by the assurance that we basically granted by being a signatory to the Budapest memorandum to do everything we can to maintain the border integrity of Ukraine.
Part of the rationale was we certainly did not want to do anything that could provoke Vladimir Putin.
we need to deter Vladimir Putin, and we need to do that in a very forthright and resolved way.
That is not significant. That is not a demonstration of resolve. That communicates hesitancy to the Russians.
I think you are exactly the kind of folks we ought to be talking to in depth, in detail.
I appreciate your holding this hearing.
You, to me, spoke the magic words here--prevention and deterrence.
I am just looking forward to the testimony from the witnesses.
This is just a good government piece of legislation.
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