Clean energy boosts security | Editorial

ational security is not a sole function of funding a powerful military and intelligence regime. It’s also a function of a strong economy and strong alliances, and precluding adversaries from gaining leverage over either.Global spikes in fuel prices produced by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s unwarranted war on Ukraine demonstrate that the United States and its allies need short-term solutions to keep oil flowing at sustainable prices. But the situation also is a call for long-term solutions to thwart Putin and other despots who rely primarily on oil exports to fund their criminal misadventures.The West needs not only to accelerate its move away from Russian oil but from oil generally, to provide for its own economic security and provide the added…

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