US-Russia Conflict: Russia will pay the price for invasion of Ukraine

American President Joe Biden told Russian President Vladimir Putin that the United States is prepared to launch strong economic measures should Russia invade Ukraine — signaling that these new measures would pack a bigger punch than the sanctions issued in 2014 that failed to stop Russia from occupying Crimea.

American President Joe Biden told Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin that the us is ready to launch strong economic measures should Russia invade Ukraine — signaling that these new measures would pack an even bigger punch than the sanctions issued in 2014 that failed to stop Russia from occupying Crimea. Biden and Putin finished a videoconference and discussed the Ukraine crisis.

The call with Putin came at a sensitive time for Biden, who once helmed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and had some diplomatic duties as vice chairman to Barack Obama. Because of its size, regional influence and military might, Russia may be a perennial headache for Washington. The video summit was evidence that as Biden has sought a less frenetic foreign policy than that of his direct predecessor, the Kremlin’s walls are difficult to scale. Ukraine was the most topic of debate, with 90,000 Russian troops having gathered on the much smaller nation’s eastern border.

Those happen to be the regions of Ukraine — Donetsk, and Luhansk — where pro-Kremlin feelings are already strong, to start with. Biden and Putin spoke for about two hours over a video call. Biden told Putin directly that if Russia further invades Ukraine, the United States and European allies would respond with strong economic measures.

He said, “We would provide additional defensive material to the Ukrainians above and beyond that which we are already provided. and that we would fortify our NATO allies on the eastern flank with additional capabilities in response to such an escalation.”

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