LIVE: Secretary Blinken press conference with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba
[starting soon]
The press seems to always eventually be thrown out of that fake set room that Biden appears in.
Blinken: President Putin's deeply disturbing speech yesterday, and his statements today, made clear the world how he views Ukraine. Not as a sovereign nation, with the right to territorial integrity and independence, but rather as a creation of Russia, and therefore subordinate to Russia.
Blinken: "International rules-based order"
[that phrase has been said numerous times recently by various 'officials']
Kuleba [Ukrainian Foreign Minister]: Russian aggression has brought the world to the largest catastrop since World War II…[President Putin] attacked the world order.
Blinken: This is about the total subjugation of Ukraine to Russia. It's about reconstituting the Russian Empire, or short of that , a sphere of influence, or short of that, the total neutrality of countries surrounding Russia.
Reporter: What's it going to take to target Putin directly?
White House advisor at press conference: I'm not going to telegraph exactly what it would take, and under what circumstances that would occur, but no option is off the table.
Psaki: The world is standing with the United States against the actions of President Putin.
[World = International Rules-Based Order]
Psaki refused to reconfirm that 'climate change' is the greatest threat, as they have previously claimed. kek
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Psaki just said that de-escalation is now necessary for diplomacy.
Psaki appearing gleeful when asked what Russia would have to do to trigger the fullest extent of U.S. sanctions.