I've been pointing this out for years and years, but it's nice to have The Professor on my side

to russia, with love

COMPLETELY, OBVIOUSLY TRUE:

Because fuel exports are the basis of the Russian economy, Putin’s war-making capability depends critically on energy prices being high, as they are now. The most effective step countries like the U.S. can take in response does not require sanctions, let alone military action. It’s simply to remove artificial constraints on energy production, especially on relatively clean natural gas. That means removing roadblocks to fracking, pipelines and LNG export facilities that could supply Europe. 

It also means reversing our decades-long suppression of nuclear power.

Glenn Reynolds: “So why aren’t we doing it? Let’s just say there’s more reason to think that environmentalists and other energy-deniers are on the Russian payroll than there ever was for Trump.”

For all the talk of Russia infiltrating and steering our elections, the most obvious means for it to get America to both weaken us and enrich the Mother Country is to shut down our economy while driving up the gas it’s selling to Europe. I’ve long been convinced that they’ve been inside and supporting our environmental movement for decades.