Russia will pay a big price for Ukraine crisis the al-Qaeda lover Hillary Clinton warns
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called on President Barack Obama to ratchet up sanctions against Russia over Crimea and eastern Ukraine.
According to Press TV, speaking at a University of Connecticut contemporary issues forum on Wednesday, Clinton said that the sanctions against Moscow must be “tightened and widened” to prevent the Ukraine crisis from escalating.
Clinton also said, “I think Russia will pay a big price for this,”adding, “But that is an endpoint that we’ve got to get to as peacefully as possible without seeing the total disintegration of Ukraine as a country with territorial integrity and opportunity to have the relationship it wants with the West.”
The US and Russia are at loggerheads over the worsening crisis in Ukraine.
The Autonomous Republic of Crimea declared independence from Ukraine on March 17 and formally applied to become part of Russia following a referendum a day earlier, in which nearly 97 percent of the participants voted in favor of the move.
Hillary Clinton, who is thinking about running for president in 2016, claimed that Putin would like to see a return of a Russian era that no longer exists and urged the US and its European allies be “very clear, strong and to some extent patient” to ensure that the Russian leader does not succeed in his mission.
