“Putin s BAR will stop”, US Senate panel near the adoption of sanctions against Russia

“We cannot have a moment in Munich again,” said New Jersey panel Democrat Bob Menandez for CNN, referring to the 1938 agreement the Allies gave Adolf Hitler parts of Czechoslovakia, believing it would avoid war.

“Putin won't stop if you believe the West won't respond. We saw what he did in 2008 in Georgia, we saw what he did in 2014 in pursuit of Crime. He will not stop,” said Menandez.

Menandez said he believed that the two-party negotiations for serious sanctions were “acre”, despite disagreements with the republics whether the measures should be decided before or after any Russian invasion. The British government promised to step up sanctions against Putin and his associates.

Tensions on the Ukrainian border continued to escalate, with Reuters reporting that the rise of the Russian Army included blood supplies pending victims.

John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, told Fox News that “Putin has many options available to him if he wants to further invade Ukraine and he can execute some of these options immediately. It can really happen, honestly, anytime. ”

Seeking to show two-party determination, Menandez gave CNN a joint interview with his committee's ranking Republican, James Rich from Wisconsin.

“has an extraordinary two-party commitment to Ukraine's support and a rather strong two-party determination to have serious consequences for Russia if it invades, and in some cases what it has already done. We are building legislation that Senator Rich wrote independently, and I wrote, which I called “the mother of all sanctions”. It will include a series of elements, massive sanctions against the most important Russian banks, damaging their economy, Russia's sovereign debt. These are sanctions beyond what we've ever decided before,” said Menandez.

Menandez said he believed Western allies should not wait to begin penalising Putin.

“There are some sanctions that may happen at first due to what Russia has already done, cyber attacks in Ukraine, false flag operations, efforts to undermine the Ukrainian government within”, he said.

But then the devastating sanctions that would eventually crush Russia's economy, and the continued deadly aid we will send, mean Putin must decide how many bags of Russian boys will return to Russia. The sanctions we are talking about will come later if he invades, some sanctions will come forward for what has already been done, but the deadly aid will travel no matter what,” he said.

Senator Rich said the talks had been a 24-x0 hour-long effort for the last several days” in an effort to reach agreement on the timing and content of sanctions and that he was optimistic.

“This is a work in progress,” said Rich, when pressure was put on discussions about preventive sanctions or measures to be taken in case of an invasion. “I'm more than a cautious optimist that when we get back to DC tomorrow, we'll move on. ”

The parliamentary group's co-chairman, Republican Rob Poortman from Ohio, who is also on the Foreign Relations Committee, told the NBC he believed Putin had underestimated the unity of NATO and others.

“One thing Vladimir Putin has done successfully is that he has strengthened the transatlantic alliance and countries around the world that are looking at this and saying, “we can't let this stay, we can't allow it to happen”, Poortman said.

For the first time in almost 80 years, we can have a major and very bloody conflict in Europe, if we don't get up together and push back, and so far it's good”, Poortman said.