Despite widespread support among the Democratic and neoconservative establishment in Washington, increasingly tough sanctions on Russia and oligarchs linked to Vladimir Putin may actually end up hurting the United States and bolstering the ex-KGB agent in the long run, a Russia policy analyst told “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Thursday.
Host Tucker Carlson noted how sanctions appear superficially to be an easy way to get tough with an adversary, especially after Putin invaded Ukraine and started committing alleged war crimes against civilians.
“Do the sanctions punish the people they’re intended to punish? And … are there unintended consequences that we should be thinking about? Good intentions are not enough. You have to care about the effects of your policies. That’s how adults make decisions,” Carlson said…