Article by Kevin McCullough in Townhall
Turn On The Spigots
Six million displaced.
Three million refugees.
Thousands of civilians dead.
Hundreds of children murdered.
The world hasn’t seen statistics like these since Hitler went on a land grab in the late 1930s.
Germany, however, didn’t have nuclear weapons and an international alliance propping them up.
Putin has openly implied he’d use his nuclear arsenal and has already received support from Belarus, Chechnya, Syria, Iran and China. (Not to mention formerly independent regions like Georgia and Crimea.)
Putin has already used vacuum bombs which utilize three layers of detonation to create blasts so powerful that they essentially incinerate a human in barely more than two seconds. He’s bombed maternity hospitals, orphanages, and dozens of safe shelters that had no relation to any militarized activity.
This weekend Russia announced that they have utilized hypersonic missile technology. These weapons travel anywhere 5 to 25 times the speed of sound. That’s faster than 1-5 miles per second. Defense experts in America believe they are presently nearly unstoppable once launched. And at more than one mile per blinkthey sure sound like it.
This weekend some observers openly shared their belief that the United States leadership is not prepared for what would happen should the desperate dictator decide to continue doing what we are all watching him do. Escalating his firepower and murderously extinguish human life. Specifically multiple experts question America’s readiness for the reality of Putin deciding he needed to use battlefield nuclear devices.
They would be rightfully concerned.
Especially so given the fact that Ukraine has more or less prevented the Russians from taking cities without first turning them into piles of rubble.
Putin’s plan was to take Kiyv in three days, and four weeks later the Russian troops are digging defensive positions outside the city. And as of this writing they have yet to take control of Karchiv in the north nor Mariupol in the south after weeks of battering those cities with artillery.
The picture are horrific. The reality of all of this was predictable. The administration saw all of this coming, had people telling them it would happen, and did nothing to prepare for it.
The *President himself has even acknowledged by his own admission that he is aware that Putin does not wish to stop with just Ukraine. In one of the few press conferences he’s held Biden flatly stated when asked about Putin’s long term desire that “he wants to reformulate the Soviet Union.”
Failed American leadership now hopes to attend a NATO gathering and help shape a response to all of this that will hope to bring it to an end.
Good luck.
Now that China is openly mocking the sanctions imposed on Moscow, and their expression of eternal fidelity with Putin since just before the war started, Putin feels no need to make any adjustments to his plans moving forward—whatever they may be.
Former President Obama openly opined on his desire to see America be diminished in power and standing amongst the nations of the world. It was some nonsense about white supremacy or something—from a black man who had been elected twice as president of that same nation.
President Trump quickly and radically reversed the focus and direction of America’s standing on the international stage. Yet even more quickly *President Biden has tanked America’s position, drained her of her leverage, and seems content to literally have no say in events that the entire world will be shaped by.
None of this to mention that in cutting off our energy production Biden’s administration personally funded Putin’s war machine.
The solution to all of this is pretty simple, but the American people need to express the collective will that we tell Washington what to do—not the other way around.
Turn on the spigots. Sell our energy to Europe and watch the price drop here at home. We can bankrupt Russia and Iran in the process. We can reduce the financial pain for every American who drives a vehicle almost overnight. We can re-employ all the pipeline workers, and leased drilling operators immediately. And we can alert the world that America is not diminished but potentially stronger than ever.
This isn’t a matter of left or right. It’s an issue purely of what’s good for America. And from a common sense perspective can’t we all agree on that?
https://townhall.com/columnists/kevinmccullough/2022/03/20/turn-on-the-spigots-n2604774
