SEN LINDSEY GRAHAM: Russia sanctions bill aims to change Putin's calculus, protect world order

President Donald Trump is making an earnest and sincere effort to unafraid a ceasefire and an eventual conscionable and honorable extremity to the Russia-Ukraine war. 

He and his squad person engaged Russia’s Vladimir Putin successful bid to find that pathway forward, but it is wide the lone pathway Putin is funny successful is subject operations successful Ukraine and eventually, beyond.

As a result, the coming days volition beryllium highly consequential for the Kremlin and those who are propping up Putin’s warfare machine. Additional action from both Europe and the United States is inevitable. 

Russia's President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council gathering via videoconference astatine the Kremlin successful Moscow connected March 28, 2025. (Sergei Ilyin/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

The Russia-Ukraine war has garnered planetary attention, not lone due to the fact that of its barbaric quality but besides the consequences to satellite order.

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We person been moving with the White House since time 1 successful drafting this package. We present person implicit 84 Senate cosponsors and 70 House cosponsors of authorities to enact hard-hitting sanctions and tariffs connected Russia and its fiscal backers. 

It is wide to maine and virtually each sponsor of the Russia sanctions measure that the mode we woody with Putin volition either promote oregon deter atrocious actors.

The intent of this authorities is to interruption the rhythm of China -- a communist dictatorship -- buying lipid beneath marketplace terms from Putin’s Russia, which empowers his warfare instrumentality to termination guiltless Ukrainian civilians.

This measure would extremity that cycle.

China is watching the United States’ resoluteness regarding Putin’s effort to dismember Ukraine and perchance different sovereign nations. It is not my extremity to humiliate Russia, but it is my extremity to marque definite that China sees the result of this struggle and feels that its efforts to instrumentality Taiwan by unit would not beryllium successful the People’s Republic’s champion interest.

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It is besides precise important that we fto Iran and different assertive federation states cognize that the terms for disrupting satellite order, seizing different nation’s onshore and trying to predominate their neighbors is not worthy it. 

I person been incredibly impressed with Europe’s caller resolve, some successful toughening sanctions and investing successful their military. Europe is answering President Trump’s telephone to summation defence spending to 5% of their gross home product. 

As a effect of Putin’s penetration of Ukraine, NATO is bigger and tougher than ever. However, it is important that we proceed to enactment decisively to extremity this warfare not lone soon, but successful the close way.

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Unfortunately, the much we prosecute Putin, the much assertive helium gets. It’s clip to alteration the game.

New European sanctions connected Russia’s vigor and banking sectors were released this week, and they are much hard-hitting than ever. This bundle besides singles retired Chinese concern entities for their fiscal enactment of the warfare and recommends lowering the terms that Europe pays for Russian lipid from $60 to $45 per barrel, successful bid to thrust down Russian revenues that let Putin’s bloodbath to continue.

As to the Russia sanctions measure successful the U.S. Congress, overwhelming enactment continues to build. Our extremity is to springiness President Trump much leverage to extremity this warfare quickly.

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This bicameral, bipartisan measure is elemental – and we’ve made immoderate important changes.

1. If a state doesn’t bash business with Russia, the sanctions and tariffs don’t apply.
2. If a state does concern with Russia, but they besides assistance Ukraine militarily and economically, there’s a 270-day objection connected sanctions and tariffs being imposed. There volition beryllium further waivers arsenic well, including a statesmanlike waiver for sanctions and different measures that mirrors connection utilized successful the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) signed into instrumentality by President Trump successful 2017.
3. If a state buys inexpensive Russian lipid and state and different products and doesn’t assistance Ukraine, they are screwed. That is the terms for propping up Putin’s warfare machine.

The United States and our allies person paid a terms successful the past to support state and order, and we shall again.

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