Daleep Singh, deputy national security adviser for international economics, had also said the purpose of the sanctions threat was deterrence.
“Sanctions are not an end to themselves. They serve a higher purpose, and that purpose is to deter and prevent,” Singh
saidon Feb. 22.
Pentagon press secretary John Kirby also said of sanctions that “we want them to have a deterrent effect” during an
appearanceon Fox News on Feb. 21.
Vice President Kamala Harris
said at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Feb. 22 that she believed the sanctions put together by the U.S. and European allies could deter Putin from taking further action.
“The purpose of the sanctions has always been and continues to be deterrence," Harris said.
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken also pointed to the deterrence that the threat of sanctions could bring.
“The purpose of the sanctions in the first instance is to try to deter Russia from going to war,” Blinken said during an
appearance on CNN on Feb. 20. “As soon as you trigger them, that deterrent is gone, and until the last minute, as long as we can try to bring a deterrent effect to this, we're going to try to do that.”
On Feb. 11, national security adviser Jake Sullivan
said: “The president believes that sanctions are intended to deter,” adding, “in order for them to work, to deter, they have to be set up in a way where if Putin moves, then the costs are imposed.”
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