Biden ei halua pelata näitä kortteja, ei kovin rohkaiseva viesti Ukrainan kannalta.
A senior official says the US has prepared economic countermeasures, could rotate troops to European allies if they ask.
breakingdefense.com
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden will use a Tuesday call with Russian President Vladimir Putin to warn of “very real costs” should Russia further invade Ukraine — but costs unlikely to come in the form of direct US military response, a senior administration official suggested today.
“I don’t want to use a public press call to talk about the particular sensitive challenges that President Biden will lay out for President Putin, but I would say that the United States is not seeking to end up in a circumstance in which the focus of our countermeasures is the direct use of American military force,” the official told reporters. Rather, the US would pursue “a combination of support for the Ukrainian military, strong economic countermeasures [and] a substantial increase in support and capabilities to our NATO allies to ensure they remain safe.”