After many confessed that Mitt Romney was prescient and Barack Obama wrong about the Russian threat, a consensus formed that confronting Russia via crippling sanctions was the optimal plan.
The West, however, is overly dependent on Russian energy, so some countries — notably not the United States, which continues a psychotic war on our fossil fuel industry — scaled back their self-defeating climate agenda to liberate themselves from Russian oil.
As Vladimir Putin shells Ukrainian cities, the West points to atrocities as evidence we stand on the proper side of world order.
Not since Hitler’s invasion of Poland to start World War II have we seen such clear-cut distinctions between good and evil. The world has rallied against Russia, since it’s within our ability to return to modus vivendi and stop a nefarious regime from challenging said world order.
In contrast, the U.S., United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, and China seem willing to allow the Islamic Republic of Iran a legal path to nuclear weapons. READ MORE
