There is an idea floating around the left today that shows their absolute inability to understand just how much our national security is tied to our energy dependence/independence as a nation.
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes is just one of a handful of progressives who feel that we should stop buying Russian oil and focus instead on purchasing from… Iran?
No, this is not a “possible solution.” This is idiotic.
The problem with this idea is that Russia is using its energy profits to fund its war effort against Ukraine, but Iran would use those profits to fund terror groups that pose a risk to the United States and our allies in the Middle East. We can come to the table with Russia even on a bad day, but on a good day, Iran swears that it will destroy us. There’s no serious sit-down with them.
How is doing business with them an idea we should consider? It’s just a sign that the left has no real solution for our energy problems. When the Biden administration rolled in, we were at or near energy independence. Biden immediately slashed drilling leases and the Keystone XL pipeline. He has crippled our ability to produce our own oil and gas and forced us to be independent on other producers around the globe.
Russia is one of those. We jumped from 3% of our oil coming from Russia in 2020 to 6% in 2021. Jen Psaki today says we currently get 10% of our oil from them.
Our demand went up even as our ability to produce was slashed. This makes it now impossible to go after Putin’s energy exports as a means of deterring him from this war in Ukraine.
I mean, we still could, but Biden is now so terrified of poll numbers that he won’t risk another spike in gas prices. He’s stuck.
This is absolute foolishness. We can’t use the tools available to us because the Biden administration is afraid of climate change and bad polling numbers. It’s yet another reason that this administration was doomed to fail from the start. They have no serious solutions.