And that cutting off Russian oil and gas sales would - but that we won't do that because it will cause us too much harm - creating shortages and significantly raising energy costs at a time when we're already facing inflationary pressures.
Somehow he doesn't mention anything about ramping up domestic production, or slowing down this headlong dash into "green" idiocy.
Reich explains that the sanctions we’re putting in place won’t hurt Russia badly enough to stop Putin....
For once I agree with him.
Wall street heard bitemes sanction speech and ran the Dow up 800 points.
Robert Reich?
birdcage liner!
“liberal democracy, which poses a direct threat to authoritarian “strongmen” like him (just as it did to Donald Trump).”
http://www.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/crap.wav
THE GUARDIAN??? ROBERT REICH???
IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO DETERMINE WHICH IS A GREATER SOURCE OF MENDACITY AND MALICE???
“ Somehow he doesn’t mention anything about ramping up domestic production, or slowing down this headlong dash into “green” idiocy. ”
That’s because he writes for a hard left rag and can’t print that even though it’s true and financing the war they all wring their hands over 🤪
From the article: “Putin’s real fear is liberal democracy, which poses a direct threat to authoritarian “strongmen” like him (just as it did to Donald Trump).”
It’s hard to take anything else he says seriously.
Robert Reich Is a lying leftist but he is right about why the Biden Regime is not trying to cut off the Russian oil spigot.
Creepy Joe Biden is a gimp that put himself in the Green New Deal barrel and now Putin is raping him through the glory hole.
The good new is Reich is ALWAYS WRONG.
One sobering reality he neglects to mention is that the longer this conflict continues, the more likely Ukraine becomes even more of an economic basket case. That’s what happens when you allow passions and emotion to override commonsense. Was it really worth it for Ukraine to give Putin the middle finger at the behest of the US? Let’s see what they think of that decision a few years from now. My guess is they will come to regret it, but hey that’s their choice.
Robert Reich repeating what he read in the MSM. These guys are like mindless squawking parrots.
I’m reminded of Rush pronouncing Reich’s name.
Reich got some of it right then he goes off into a loopy obsession with Trump toward the end that reminds everyone what a nutjob Reich really is.
Check out the last two sentences of this essay...
"[Putin hopes to] stoke division inside the west by fueling racist nationalism in western Europe and the United States. In this, Trump and Trumpism continue to be Putin's most important ally."
LOL - no matter how irrelevant, the Political Left always finds a way to mention racism and Donald Trump.
A President who was trusted by the people could come before them and say that ending purchases of Russian fuel would hurt everyone, but that returning America to energy independence would benefit everyone in the long run.
I would put up with $6 a gallon gas this year if I could know that the price would be $3 or even $2 by 2024, and that none of my money was funding a dictatorial nutcase.
But the present occupant of the Delaware Mansion? I don’t trust him, or the Jamaican idiot who will take his place, or any of a thousabd or so possible Dem replacements. Trump, DeSantis, or the equivalent, I would follow into hell for the purpose of restoring American paradise.
Reich is a MARXIST economist. That explains his covering for Putin.
Robert “Third” Reich just can’t help taking an underhanded shot at Trump in this crap article. Man, I really loathe leftist pigs like him.
Putin’s Puppets give the Biden Crime Family MILLIONS of DOLLARS!!
He also blames Trump for Russia’s aggressiveness. he is not serious.
“Somehow he doesn’t mention anything about ramping up domestic production, or slowing down this headlong dash into “green” idiocy.”
If you lived with a person who could be “triggered” into a violent rage, you quickly learn how not to trigger that rage. It’s Stokholm syndrome but on a small, personal scale. That’s where every published writer is today. No one wants to be “cancelled.” The symptom of being cancelled is becoming the focus of “rage.”
Yeah right, RR. These Swamp dwellers are still trying to provoke a war with Russia. I’ve been watching the Ukraine live cams. As usual, the MSM is lying through their teeth. That includes Fox News. They’re showing OLD Video shots from years ago. The one shot of the Russian plane is from an old video game! SMH
Russia took out the US bioweapon labs! They scrubbed the news on that per usual. Putin is taking out the Ukraine Swamp and putting an end to their corruption, the child trafficking and drug markets. No more money for you, Hunter, Kerry, Pelosi & Romney! It’s over C_A! You lost.