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Rep. Mike Garcia, R-Calif., says President Biden’s comments describing what he will or won’t do in Ukraine could put the U.S. at a disadvantage.
“A good strategist will never disclose what he will or will not do in advance of combat,” Garcia, a former Navy pilot, told Fox News Digital. He noted that Biden previously told reporters that he gave Putin a list of 16 U.S. entities that are “off limits” for a Russian cyberattack in June.
Rep. Mike Garcia, left, and L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva prior to a press conference on illegal marijuana grows in the Antelope Valley outside the Los Angeles County Farm Bureau in Palmdale.
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Biden previously told reporters that he had no intention of sending American troops to Ukraine and, more recently, no intention of implementing a no-fly zone over Ukraine to avoid U.S. involvement in the war with Russia.
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Garcia said the president’s response to Russia’s invasion into Ukraine so far “has been weak and overly delayed.”
President Biden gives remarks at a Black History Month celebration event in the East Room of the White House Feb. 28, 2022.
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“[H]e waited far too long to enact sanctions that would deter Putin in some way,” Garcia said. “Our president should not be telling our adversaries what we won’t do.”
The California congressman added that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, “as terrible as it is,” should not distract the administration from China, “who is America’s No. 1 threat and watching every move we make.”
U.S. officials told The New York Times in January that the Biden administration shared intelligence with Beijing regarding Russia’s potential invasion into Ukraine, which Chinese…
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