US energy policy should be, to
- OK coal-fired plants for generating electricity
- OK natural gas usage for generating electricity
- OK increases of natural gas production
- OK increases of gas transportation pipelines
- OK fossil fuel refining
- OK fossil fuel exporting
- OK adding to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve(s)
Thus supplying significant downward pressure upon the price of energy.
Otherwise, energy restrictions and shortages, benefit Putin’s ever-moving, annexation goal-posts.
Where, just beyond such west-bound moving, Do Not Cross This Russian Line(s), Putin again protests that NATO is at the Russian “border” de jeur.
Putin seems to be set (again), to build The Serbian Road:
- Ukraine territory
- Moldova territory
- Romanian territory
- Bulgarian territory
- Serbia
- thence to the Adriatic
Presently, liberals exclaiming a global climate crisis, gives/pays to/for Putin both power and motivation to take (Rus: “annex”) land for pipelines along The Serbian Road.
And, for Putin to gain complete control over the Black Sea, with the exception (maybe) of Turkey.
re The Serbian Road (my reply 5, above)
*New York Times* article, May 6, 1993:
SERBS REJECT BOSNIA PACT, DEFYING FRIENDS AND FOES, AND INSIST ON REFERENDUM
https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/06/world/conflict-balkans-serbs-reject-bosnia-pact-defying-friends-foes-insist-referendum.html
EXCERPT:
The issue is critical because at present, areas in western Bosnia and Croatia with more than half a million Serbian residents are connected to the Serbian republic in Yugoslavia by a corridor that is only a mile wide at one point, and is regularly attacked by the Muslim-led Bosnian Government forces.
“All Serb provinces should be linked by unbroken territorial corridors,” Mr. [Dragan] Kalinic said.
Mr. Vance and Lord Owen agreed in Athens to establish a six-mile-wide corridor, patrolled by United Nations troops, through the bottleneck in northern Bosnia. But there was no guarantee of eventual Serbian political control of the new province through which the corridor would pass; the area is hotly contested by all three factions.