United States Republican Senator Marco Rubio is concerned that the world is in a dangerous place. On Sunday the senator said, Putin has “engaged himself in a conflict that he can’t win.”
Rubio analysed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s current position. The Senator said, “He’s either going to have a costly military victory, followed by a costly occupation that he can’t afford, or he’s going to get caught in a long-term military quagmire. At the same time, he’s facing a second front, which is an economy in freefall in his own country. So the combination of these two things, I think, puts us in a very dangerous place and that is, [Putin] is going to have to do something – some escalation, some amplification of this crisis – in order to restore strategic balance in his view with the West, and I’m worried about what those things could be.”
Political analysts and journalists have interpreted the Senator’s words to be an expression of the US government’s fears that Putin could launch a nuclear strike. Following Rubio’s analytical statement, one political pundit explained the position as follows, “Putin will not back down because his psychological makeup will not allow him to lose face. At the same time, he cannot win this war, that leaves Putin with only one option: a military escalation; that escalation could be a nuclear attack.”
The Republican Senator, in his Sunday statement, also called on the administration of US President Joe Biden to ban all Russian oil in the United States, a move that has bipartisan support. Rubio analysed this aspect of the issue in a clear and logical way. The senator said, “The fact that people believe that not buying Russia’s oil … would raise our gas prices is actually very concerning because that proves that Putin has the leverage and the power over America to raise our gas prices anytime he wants. So we shouldn’t allow that to continue. We should not allow Vladimir Putin to have the power at any moment to raise gas prices on Americans by cutting us off at some point now or in the future. It makes no sense whatsoever to continue to buy oil from Russia that they use to fund this war and this murderous campaign that they’re undertaking,”
This publication will continue to follow events, and keep the public informed of the situation.
More, In The Ring.
