Disagreements emerge over timing of sanctions on Russia as Kremlin shrugs off the threat
As the Biden administration pursues diplomatic options to prevent a Russian invasion of Ukraine, officials have loudly talked up a favored tool of coercive foreign policy: sanctions.
The economically “devastating” sanctions President Biden has threatened could make the projected cost of war so steep, it should make Russian President Vladimir Putin rethink any plans to attack, officials have said.
But analysts caution that the deterrent power of even the most hard-hitting measures is only as strong as the United States and its allies are explicit and unified about the consequences of invasion. And so far, some say, that clarity and unanimity are lacking.
Disagreements over whether to impose sanctions on a significant number of Russian officials and entities now — as opposed to waiting for Russia to attack — have complicated action in the U.S. Senate, where Democrats and Republicans have been negotiating an agreement to impose some mandatory sanctions on Russia. And though the Biden administration has stressed that planned sanctions would target at least some of Russia’s largest state-owned banks, they have been reticent to name which ones specifically.
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