While President Joe Biden has repeated that the U.S. will not send troops to Ukraine to fight Russia, he warned Friday that "Russia would pay a severe price" if it used chemical weapons in Ukraine, raising questions over what those consequences would look like.
Biden announced new trade sanctions on Russia Friday and reiterated his position from the White House that "we will not fight a war against Russia in Ukraine," but so far, economic sanctions from the international community have not stopped Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion.
The Biden administration has warned this week that Putin could use chemical or biological weapons, but officials have repeatedly refused to say if a chemical attack would cross a red line or whether they have intelligence that an attack is imminent.
"Your White House has said that -- that Russia may use chemical weapons, or create a false flag operation to use them," a reporter asked the president Friday. "What evidence have you seen showing that, and would the U.S. have a military response if Putin does launch a chemical weapons attack?"
"I'm not going to speak about intelligence," Biden said, "but Russia would pay a severe price if they used chemical weapons."
It was the only question he took before leaving the room.
White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates, briefing reporters on Air Force One after the remarks, echoed Biden that there would be "severe consequences," but also declined to go into specifics about what those...
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