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Victor Davis Hanson: Russia’s Ukraine invasion a warning call to AOC and ‘Squad’

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Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson rebuked Rating. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, for promoting radical left insurance policies and talked about the geopolitical implications of Russia’s invasion Thursday on “Jesse Watters Primetime.”

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: If the USA is [energy independent] … then we construct no longer beg of us in the Center East or Russia to abet us. If the oil ticket [is] common, the economies in the West thrive, and Vladimir Putin doesn’t enjoy monetary reserves that can subsidize as an invasion.

Real grunt the lead-as much as [the invasion]. In January, we had these hackers from Russia [going] … after the Colonial Pipeline in the USA. They took out one million barrels a day, and that used to be after we had been reducing aid. …  [Then] we had the Senate Democrats who [sic] wrote a veto to sanction the Nord Stream Pipeline. Energy is a subtext of all of the preliminaries as much as this.

And I deem looking out back, we’ll grow up. We’ll acknowledge aid at AOC’s insane efforts and of us in the Squad in the exhausting left to cease down voluntarily practically 3 million barrels a day of oil production. … [T]hat leads to … valid deaths — of us die in case you enact that, and they also enjoy to admire that — or no longer it is crazy. 

We’ll enjoy to opt a exhausting admire at NATO, for the reason that notion that for years, nobody listened. As we suggested the Germans, we begged the Germans. We pleaded with the Germans, “Dwell no longer prick a contend with Putin, enact no longer gain reliant on Putin energy. Why construct no longer you import liquefied natural gasoline from the USA or [Israel’s] pipeline, something else so much of than Russia?” And we were completely no longer famed. I deem that is going to be reexamined. 

The West has been caught drowsing and … an opportunistic dictator … saw a gamble and … took it upright delight in he did in 2014. 

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