An Energy Strategy to Defeat Russia?

Chris, Melanie, and Zack consider the economic measures taken by
the United States and Europe to punish Russia for its invasion of
Ukraine, especially those pertaining to oil and natural gas. To
what extent are these policies responsible for rising gasoline
prices? Can other measures be taken to replace Russian oil on the
global market? Or should Western governments also employ demand
restrictions, including possibly compulsory measures to
discourage or prevent energy usage? And what political price
should democratically elected governments be willing to pay in
order to affirm the moral and strategic imperative of defeating
Russia’s aggression against Ukraine? Grievances for Columbia’s
Jeffrey Sachs who claimed that COVID originated in a U.S. lab,
for super-virtuous people who take to Twitter on the Fourth of
July to talk about how horrible the United States is, and toward
self-absorbed TikTokers known as “Gentleminions.” Attapeople to
FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) and to
the Quincy Institute for a smart report on defending Asia, and an
atta-thing for all the ways that computers make our lives better
(until they kill us).


Episode reading at:
https://warontherocks.com/2022/07/an-energy-strategy-to-defeat-russia