There Is A Time-Honored Way To Help Ukraine Quickly Defeat Russia
American ThinkerMar 05, 2022
In a move aiming to further pressure the Kremlin's fossil fuel earnings and reduce Europe's dependence on Russian energy — which previously accounted for 10% of Europe's diesel — the EU on Sunday imposed a ban on Russian diesel fuel and other refined oil products.
This follows a Group of Seven (G7) countries' agreement to cap diesel, jet fuel, and petrol at $100 per barrel. This will allow Russia to sell to China and India to avoid sudden worldwide price jumps while also reducing Moscow's profits to fund its war.
Economic sanctions have certainly made life difficult for Putin, but they'll never work to end the war on Kyiv's terms. The only thing that will work is providing more military assistance to the Ukrainian army. The West has a moral responsibility to step up and equip Ukraine with the armaments and defenses it needs to fend off Russia once and for all.
The US's ultimate goal and reason for supporting Ukraine is to isolate and weaken Russia; NATO's expansion has always been aimed at controlling the Baltic Sea and with it Russia's means of exporting resources. Though neoconservatives have tried hard to isolate Russia completely — e.g. potentially disrupting the Nordstream pipeline — the nations of the world won't overhaul their economies just to cave to US hegemony.
There's a 50% chance that Russia will produce at least 9.50M barrels of oil per day by 2023, according to the Metaculus prediction community.