Good Monday evening. This is Daniel Allott with The Hill's Top Opinions. With fall right around the corner and the war in Ukraine showing no signs of abating, Russian President Vladimir Putin is planning to weaponize winter, write JONATHAN SWEET AND MARK TOTH. The authors, a retired Army colonel and retired historian, respectively, theorize that with Russian troop morale low and after repeated battlefield setbacks, Putin aims "to produce an energy crisis in the dead of a European winter to break the will of NATO from continuing to militarily and economically support Kyiv." "The underlying assumption is that Europeans would choose warmth and comfort over Ukraine's independence," they write. Will they? Sweet and Toth say no. But the European Union needs a plan to offset the decline in nuclear-powered electricity and natural gas that's already started. The authors explain what such a plan might look like. It will be an uncomfortable winter for much of Europe. But as the Russian military approaches its most vulnerable moment, Europeans must realize that "this war is bigger than Ukraine, and victory can be secured only through offensive action." Read Sweet and Toth's piece here. Not subscribed to The Hill's Top Opinions? Sign up here. |
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