Vice President Kamala Harris presented the Ukrainian invasion in simple words on Tuesday, starting with: “Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. ‘
Appearing at The Morning Hustle, the vice president was asked to “break things down with lay people for people who don’t understand what’s going on and how it could directly affect people in the United States.”
Harris broke it: “Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia has decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine, so that is essentially wrong.
“This contradicts everything we stand for, there are terms we use, we say we respect the sovereignty, the territorial integrity of the countries, right?” their independence. Russia entered Ukraine militarily unprovoked, with no excuse other than to exercise its power to take over another country.
Senator Ted Cruz posted a meme on a mathematical equation mocking Harris’s response on Twitter.
Harris was then asked about the different views between her and Biden on sanctions.
“No one expected sanctions to prevent something from happening,” Biden said last Thursday.
“The purpose of sanctions has always been and continues to be deterrence,” Harris said Sunday.
“Some people questioned these sanctions because they said you had a conflicting opinion against President Joe Biden?” The Morning Hustle presenter asked.
“We had sanctions before the actual invasion, we threatened sanctions to hope to stop Russia from entering,” he said.
She compared the deterrence strategy to disciplining a bad child.
“So you know that if you’re a parent and you tell your kids to do that, the punishment will be right?” And we hope that will stop our children from doing wrong things, right? So this is deterrence, so that’s where we started with the sanctions. And when Russia does come in, we apply sanctions.
Harris was at the forefront and center of the White House’s dealings with Vladimir Putin’s invasion, flying to Germany ten days ago for a security conference in Munich with world leaders to discuss their response if Putin invaded.
An explosion is seen in the TV tower, against the background of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 1
Smoke billows from the TV tower, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 1
In an interview with Morning Hustle, she failed to mention that Putin believes that Ukraine has no right to sovereignty and that, as a former KGB officer, he has publicly mourned the fall of the Soviet Union for years.
“Modern Ukraine was created entirely by Russia,” Putin said in an indiscriminate address last Monday.
Ukraine was part of Russia until 1991, when the Ukrainian people voted to leave the Soviet Union and become independent. In 2014, Putin sent forces to take over Crimea, which used to be part of Ukraine.
According to NewsNation questionnaire58% of Americans are unsure of Harris’ ability to take over the presidency if necessary.
Some observers were not impressed by the news briefing on the “salad of words” she gave last week after her trip to Munich.
An armed man stands next to the remains of a Russian military car in Bucha, near the capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 1
Emergency crews react after a rocket crashed near Kyiv’s TV tower in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv in March
“I mean, listen, boys, we’re talking about the potential for war in Europe,” Harris said at the time. “I mean, let’s really take some time to understand the meaning of what we’re talking about.”
She continued: “So our position is very clear to us as a leader, as we come together with allies, working together on our collective and united position that we all do not just prefer, we want, we believe, it is in everyone’s interest to have a diplomatic end to this moment. “
A Biden official told the Washington Post that Harris had been sent to a conference in Munich to support her foreign policy powers and that she had not coordinated her actions. from the state of Anthony Blinken during the trip.
“Vice President and Secretary Blinken have talked to each other here, but they follow separate schedules and their teams are not closely coordinated,” the official said. “You can argue that this is a divide-and-conquer strategy, but it’s exaggerated. Harris’s halt is about burning her political authority as a leader in the midst of a crisis.