• President Biden is furious at OPEC for drastically reducing our oil supply. That’s his job.
• A party fundraising event is not the most appropriate place for a president of the United States to muse about the potential of nuclear Armageddon — would anywhere be? — but Joe Biden did it in New York City recently. As Russia continues to get pushed back from Ukrainian territory and the home front grows restive, the Russian dictator might calculate that a nuclear test, a demonstration explosion, or the use of a tactical weapon on the battlefield is his best bet to change the trajectory of a conflict that he is badly losing. Biden should explain to the nation the dangers and how we intend to deter Putin from going down this route. There is no reason that we shouldn’t immediately begin to acquire more of our current interceptors for all of our systems — the Patriot, sea-based AEGIS, land-mobile THAAD, or ground-based GMD. If we are going to have any hope of stopping or significantly degrading a nuclear attack on the United States, we need to develop a space-based defense. All this would be expensive, but not nearly as costly as one day losing an American city.
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