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Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin has the latest on the Russia-Ukraine war on ‘Special Report.’<\/p>\n
There should be no question that the American people stand strongly with the people of Ukraine. But Joe Biden has continued to meet President Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s requests for assistance with weakness and delay, restricting Ukraine\u2019s ability to defend its territory and resist Russia\u2019s invasion.\u202f <\/p>\n
\u202fDuring Zelenskyy\u2019s address\u202fbefore Congress, he called on President Biden to be “the leader of the world.” Unfortunately for Zelenskyy, Ukraine, the United States and the world, Joe Biden\u2019s lack of leadership has meant war through weakness, instead of peace through strength.\u202f <\/p>\n
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\n Republican conference chair Rep. Elise Stefanik speaks with reporters during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Nov. 3, 2021. While Zelenskyy is inspiring the world and rising to the challenge of a catastrophic crisis in his country, the Biden administration has been far too slow, not only in its implementation of sanctions, but in its lack of complete sanctions on Russian energy and businesses. <\/p>\n The Biden administration actually\u202flobbied\u202fagainst crippling sanctions on Russia that could have deterred the invasion of Ukraine. In May 2021, Joe Biden handed Putin a geopolitical gift when he\u202fwaived sanctions\u202fon the Russian Nord Stream 2 pipeline. <\/p>\n This came on the heels of the week-long gas shortage because Russian hackers\u202fshut down the Colonial Pipeline\u202fin the U.S. Instead of holding Russia accountable, President Biden\u202fmet with Putin in June\u202fand gave him a list of critical infrastructure that he reportedly said\u202fshould be “off-limits” from Russian-backed cyberattacks. In all likelihood, Biden handed Putin a target list. He had many opportunities to hold Putin accountable and show strength, but Biden abysmally failed and handed Putin multiple wins.\u202f\u202f <\/p>\n Biden has played directly into Putin\u2019s hands.\u00a0<\/p>\n Biden once promised that he could go\u202f<\/u>toe to toe\u202fwith Vladimir Putin. However, since he took office, Joe Biden sold out American energy independence to our adversaries and threatened our national security. Biden has played directly into Putin\u2019s hands. <\/p>\n And Putin is not alone. Our adversaries around the world have been assessing and measuring Joe Biden’s abysmal failures on the world stage, especially since Biden’s catastrophic withdrawal and surrender in Afghanistan. Now, Europe is facing the most significant national security crisis since the end of World War II. The world is in chaos because Biden is incapable of leading, creating a vacuum that Vladimir Putin is hoping to fill.\u202f <\/p>\n Biden should have taken swift and devastating actions to cripple the Russian economy and imposed severe, irrecoverable consequences on Putin’s corrupt regime a long time ago. Instead, his delayed\u202f<\/u>ban on Russian oil\u202fcame far too late.\u202f <\/p>\n Predating Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, House Republicans have been united in advocating for strong, tough sanctions for months. And we stand strongly in support of making sure that the weapons and ammunition needed get to the Ukrainian people as quickly as possible. <\/p>\n
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