Drain Putin’s Brains

We can undermine Putin by stealing his technical talent.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin (middle) and Director General of the State Space Corporation Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin (left) visit the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Amur Region, Russia, September 4, 2021.

Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin/Kremlin via Reuters

As the West faces the threat of a revanchist Russia, there is a weapon we can deploy to great effect to weaken our enemy. We can hire away his technical team.

Specifically, the United States could, with a stroke of a pen, totally destroy the capacity of Russia to compete militarily or economically with us by offering a green card to any Russian with a technical degree who wishes to emigrate to the United States.

Robert Zubrin

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Robert Zubrin

Robert Zubrin is an aerospace engineer and the author of twelve books, most recently The New World on Mars: What We Can Create on the Red Planet.

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