Russia-Ukraine crisis: Biden's twin failures on energy and foreign policy gave Putin tools to invade

Until last year, getting tough on Russia was one of the few issues that seemed to unite conservatives and progressives.

I hope that Biden will someday explain why Canadian oil causes global warming, but Russian gas doesn’t.

Until last year, getting tough on Russia was one of the few issues that seemed to unite conservatives and progressives. When I served on the House Armed Services Committee, my colleagues all recognized the real threat that Russia poses to our nation. In 2019, Congress passed a bipartisan measure to impose sanctions on the Russian company that is building the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to deliver natural gas from Russia to Germany. The sanctions had strong support from both Democrat leadership and the Trump administration.