Russian oil
Another round of sanctions on Russia is not going to strangle the Russian economy and stop the war in Ukraine? In fact, Russia is flush with cash. Russia has more money to fund its war in Ukraine than ever before. The U.S. used to be a huge exporter of oil with many happy customers. Biden’s war on energy has stifled America’s ability to fill the energy needs of growing economies. Last year, India imported over 1.79 million barrels a day of Russian crude oil. What makes sanctions a joke is that the U.S. is the biggest purchaser of refined oil products from India. So in effect, the United States is funding Russia’s war machine. The joke is on us.
Donald Houghton
Quincy
Student killed
It makes me sick to my stomach, a college student in Georgia jogging around her school abducted and killed by illegal immigrant that was arrested and released in New York. How can any citizen in the United States believe this border policy is OK, it’s nothing but invading our country and wanting free stuff.
Tony Meschini
Scituate
Ukraine war
I am sick of the logical fallacies coming from the uniparty pro-war faction of American politics. Ukraine is suffering losses in the war against Russia for lack of arms amongst other things, and pundits on all corporate media – left and right – are blaming this squarely on “a lack of U.S. support.”
For one thing, Ukraine is in Eastern Europe, not the Eastern United States, last I checked there were a whole bunch of affluent nations over there that are wont to tell us between world wars how superior their way of life is to ours, so feel free to start sending some aid to Ukraine EU members. Maybe sell some yachts docked down in the French Riviera or some private planes in the Swiss Alps ski resorts?
Second, that nations a half a world away are addicted to aid from the United States to maintain basic military operations is an indictment of both European helplessness, and America’s complicity in enabling that to come into being. Break the cycle now, we have our own problems to worry about. We are meeting and exceeding our NATO commitments, time for Europe to do the same.
Nick McNulty
Windham, NH