<p>WASHINGTON — Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul questioned Thursday whether sanctions the United States has placed on Russia and China have had any serious effect, warning that sanctions are mostly useful as threats.</p>
<p>Paul spoke Thursday afternoon at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, D.C. at Up From Chaos, an event on conserving American security hosted by The American Conservative and American Moment.</p>
<p>The Kentucky senator emphasized the usefulness of &#8220;the threat&#8221; of sanctions.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have lots of sanctions on Russia,&#8221; Paul told attendees. &#8220;I think sanctions can have leverage as a threat. But once they&#8217;re placed on, particularly if they are placed on without any sort of explanation of how they are going to come off&#8230;I think the sanctions have no effect and are probably deleterious.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;I don’t think the sanctions we’ve put on Russia have done anything. I don’t think the sanctions we’ve put on China have done anything. Can you tell me one behavior Russia has changed because of a sanction?”</p>
<p>Senator <a href="https://twitter.com/RandPaul?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RandPaul</a> on sanctions at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UpFromChaos?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#UpFromChaos</a> this afternoon <a href="https://t.co/8r4IL1bv14">pic.twitter.com/8r4IL1bv14</a></p>
<p>&mdash; American Moment (@AmMomentOrg) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmMomentOrg/status/1509589799157522432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 31, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think any of the sanctions we have put on Russia, and we have hundreds, have done anything,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think any of the sanctions we have put on China have done anything. In fact, when representatives from the state department come before my committee, I usually ask them &#8230; can you tell me one behavior that Russia has changed because of sanctions? They say &#8216;Well, um, no.'&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve never had a clear answer from one person in the state department on one behavior that has changed,&#8221; added Paul.</p>
<p>His comments come as President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration has blacklisted 10 individuals and 17 entities who are reportedly seeking to evade the international sanctions on Russia.</p>
<p>“These designations will further impede Russia’s access to western technology and the international financial system,” Secretary of State <span class="person-popover" data-nid="30772">Antony Blinken <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/international/3078728-us-blacklists-russian-entities-for-evasion-of-international-sanctions/">said in a statement</a>. “We will continue to target [Russian] President [Vladimir] Putin’s war machine with sanctions from every angle, until this senseless war of choice is over.”</span></p>
<p>Fellow speakers at the &#8220;Up from Chaos&#8221; event included &#8220;Hillbilly Elegy&#8221; author and Ohio GOP senatorial candidate J.D. Vance, Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massive, and Washington state congressional candidate Joe Kent.</p>
<p>Paul criticized the &#8220;intemperate&#8221; and &#8220;bellicose&#8221; remarks of Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lindsey-graham-doubles-down-on-calls-for-putins-assassination">has suggested</a> that Russian President Vladimir Putin should be assassinated.</p>
<p>The Kentucky Republican emphasized &#8220;important precepts&#8221; of &#8220;constitutional foreign policy,&#8221; saying that &#8220;war should be a last resort, not a first result, that the decision to go to war should be difficult, and that war should never be exercised or begun in our country from the sole decision of one person.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I think if we stick by those, there&#8217;s a lot of good things that come from that,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Paul also mentioned a &#8220;growing movement&#8221; of lawmakers within Congress that he is part of &#8220;that truly does believe in the constitutional role of congress in war.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I think we are having some successes in making them think twice about intervention,&#8221; the senator added.</p>

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