Texas congressman and member of the House Armed service committee Ronny Jackson on the problem with America continuing to purchase Russian oil and the need to sanction their oil and gas as attacks in Ukraine continue.
Well, they've done a lot of things wrong. They should have put the sanctions in place right off the bat before this happened. Whenever the Russian troops were amassed on the Ukrainian border, we should have had all of these tough sanctions. We should have started by sanctioning their oil and gas. Number one, we should have sanctioned Putin, sanctioned their central bank. All of the big heavy sanctions, some of them which haven't even been done like oil and gas right now.
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