From the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.

The Armstrong and Gettyshow.

The meeting that President Putin had with his business leaders yesterday, that when the

doors were closed, President Putin told those business leaders, if you think that you

will not do business with banks and organizations that have been sanctioned in order to not

be punished, well here this, if you try and do that, I will punish you.

That's the kind of message that President Putin is sending to those business leaders,

gives you a picture of this question of sanctions and the idea, and it's not just about

this sanctions obviously, but the idea that Oleg Arcos and the go to President Putin

say, this is too much, we can't do this.

That's not the society that Russia is.

Yeah, that's interesting.

I'm going to read from the Wall Street Journal here in a little bit on how their feeling

isn't, you know, they know more about this than most people.

They're at the Wall Street Journal editorial board that these sanctions are pretty tepid,

and man, Biden yesterday, first of all, he sounds like a really old man, but man, his ongoing

talk about it'll take months, it'll take months, you know, and this is a good start and there's

more to come, there's more to come.

The stronger sanctions are to come, if not now when, does the president of Ukraine actually

have to die today before you get to the strong sanctions?

And by the way, according to Kier Simons, whose reporting has been great on NBC, that is

the plan of Putin.

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