.NoahCRothman: President Biden needs to take action — and he should start by telling Americans what defending Ukraine will cost them.
, be felt by average Russians in the form of “higher prices for food and clothing” or even devalued “pensions and savings accounts.” This will not dissuade Moscow from its present course. Only targeting Russia’s energy sector could impose a level of pain that Moscow might be unwilling to accept, and only targeting Russia’s energy sector would result in the kind of reciprocity — complicating or even choking off energy exports to the West — that Americans would feel “at the gas pump.
If economic warfare of that sort is in the offing, you can see why Biden would be reluctant to go into detail about it.that a tit-for-tat exercise in sanctioning energy would force oil and gas prices to skyrocket. The reduced supplies would also contribute to already serious inflationary pressures in the U.S., further reducing Americans’ purchasing power and contributing to economic anxiety that is sapping this administration of support.
This is an all-hands-on-deck moment. A full-scale invasion of Ukraine should be met with all the consequences the United States can muster. Biden should declare that commitment from behind the Resolute Desk in a prime-time address to the nation from the Oval Office. The president should not assume that Americans are unwilling to hear the cold, hard truths about what is about to happen.
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