Brooks: Sanctions Against Russia Are ‘Weak’ and Russia-China Alliance Is ‘Strong,’ But Biden’s Done ‘Quite Well’https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqwRYSpwsLI&t=596s&ab_channel=PBSNewsHourIan Hanchett 26 Feb 2022
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said President Joe Biden has done a good job of handling the crisis in Ukraine, despite the “weak” sanctions that are due to Europe and the U.S. relying on Russian energy and the “reasonably strong” alliance between China and Russia.
Host Judy Woodruff asked, “A lot of people watching President Biden very closely because of what happened in Afghanistan. But what’s your assessment of how he has managed this, handled this so far?”
Brooks responded, “I think quite well. He’s organized the alliance. For once, we won the information war. He really leaked all the intelligence, and it was all vindicated. Our intelligence community was excellent in predicting what the Russians were going to do. And they went ahead and did it. So, he did that part well.”
Brooks continued, “He is playing with an extremely weak hand. Putin is willing to commit troops. We, wisely, are unwilling to commit troops. That’s one disadvantage. Second, we’re unwilling and our European allies are unwilling to impose sanctions that would impose any costs on Putin. To do this right, we’d have to go after the Russian economy, which is essentially going after the energy sector. We’re not going to do that. Because European and American economies don’t want to impose any costs on themselves. So, I think the sanctions are weak.”
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