Saturday Night Live is poking fun at one of President Joe Biden‘s recent strategies.
22.02.2022 - 02:01 / deadline.com
The news focus on Presidents Day was of Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin, as he ordered troops to enter two separatist regions of Ukraine for “peacekeeping” purposes after he recognized their independence.
Cable news networks carried parts of Putin’s speech, with his move viewed by correspondents and foreign policy analysts as another step toward war.
The White House responded with a vow to begin imposing sanctions, with President Joe Biden poised to issue an executive order to prohibit trade, investment and financing in those areas.
“To be clear: these measures are separate from and would be in addition to the swift and severe economic measures we have been preparing in coordination with Allies and partners should Russia further invade Ukraine,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement.
David Muir, with an ABC News special report, said that Putin’s move was one that “leaders in the West had been most concerned about that could possibly spark a much larger conflict.” He said that it would “likely forcing the U.S. and allies to impose severe sanctions they said would be coming.”
NBC News’ Keir Simmons, In Moscow, cautioned, “I think you got to be very careful to take one step at a time, to report what we are being told by intelligence analysts, but to not over read. What we saw in Crimea was President Putin’s forces go in with barely any conflict at all. It’s possible that we now see that in Donbas because Ukraine, Kyiv, will be desperate for there not to be further conflict. Plainly, it breaks the Minsk agreement so I think we will see these sanctions come into play.” He added, “Are there then the next steps by the Russians? Are there then just the nature of conflict? Does it spiral? We don’t know yet.”
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Saturday Night Live is poking fun at one of President Joe Biden‘s recent strategies.
“I suggested it as a joke, and then it actually happened,” dead panned Kate McKinnon as White House press secretary Jen Psaki tonight. And yes Saturday Night Live decided to literally rip tonight’s White House set cold open from the headlines
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