According to Daleep Singh, President Joe Biden’s senior national security advisor for international economics, the United States’ objective is to weaken and undermine Russia’s standing as a key energy supplier.
The purpose of the US and its allies’ many sanctions against Russia, he added, is to “put the pain on President Vladimir Putin and make sure Americans don’t pay.”
Since last Thursday, when President Putin authorised the invasion of Ukraine, countries, particularly those in the West, have slammed Russia with a variety of sanctions.
As the conflict enters its eighth day, there are rising fears that the financial consequences would be felt in the United States, particularly in the form of higher gas prices.
According to CNN, the United States has no “strategic interest” in decreasing global energy supply, a move that would “only raise gas prices for Americans and pad Putin’s profits.”
Instead, he claims the strategy is aimed at “degrading and downgrading Russia’s status as a major energy supplier.”
“That’s really our goal,” the presidential adviser said of Joe Biden’s administration’s goal of reducing US consumption of Russian oil while maintaining global energy supply.
