Posted on 02/21/2022 1:12:19 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Slojo puts Vladimir Putin on double secret probation....
Recipes for borscht?
We had nice low gas prices during President Trumps admin. but the price of oil was so low that our higher cost production areas like N. Dakota stopped pumping/drilling. So we needed oil (no longer independent) and started importing again, including some from Russia. Now oil is going up (I read that $80 is the tipping point) and the higher cost producers will go to work again. So we have a choice—low oil prices and reduced production, or higher cost gas and greater national fuel independence.
Now we will be selling some of our liquid natural gas to Europe to help with their loss of Russian supplies. So jobs for our gas producers, and money for this country.
I think one smart move would have been to announce...”Yes we too support the sovereignty of the break away regions and their right for self determination to choose their own destinies apart from Ukrainian or Russian influence. We call for a people’s plebiscite to determine whether they wish to be under Russian, Ukraine, or their own control.
Too late now.
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