The war in Ukraine escalating rapidly as Russia seeks to encircle and take full control of

Kiev, the capital, a lot of aerial bombardment underway, ground troops fighting it out in the

streets, lots of video circulating.

This is the war that we had all hoped would be avoided, but it is fully underway now and

likely to get dramatically more intense with higher levels of casualties, including civilian

casualties in the days ahead.

This is a fight that the U.S. is not yet involved in, but certainly the international

community, including the U.S. and our NATO allies, have a role to play diplomatically

and with financial sanctions from the outside.

How's the Biden regime doing with all that?

Well, if you look at what's happening, clearly not doing enough.

And people are already asking questions, why is it that the full scope and scale of financial

sanctions have not already been deployed against Putin's regime by the Biden administration,

given the level of ferocity of this attack and the fact that they were trying to initially

prevent any such incursion from happening?

Well, here is Deputy National Security Advisor Delib Singh on, for example, the decision

not to push for sanctions on Russia's energy, which is that by far the most important

part of the Russian economy is energy, you're not going to sanction that.

Here's the response you get.

Targeting the Russian energy industry is totally off the table.

That was your saying, Billy.

What I'm saying is that our measures were not designed to disrupt, in any way, the current

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