01/02/2018
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"We are simply fooling ourselves as a Congress and as a country if we think we can protect this nation and our treaty allies with a 40 percent reduction to the Department that works primarily in the ar..."
"Russia does not want to militarily own Ukraine. It wants to economically and politically break Ukraine, and it wants to use energy as a means of doing that."
"this is a political initiative, meaning that most energy economists will tell you that this does not make sense as a financial endeavor moving this gas through a northern route pipeline"
"I hope that a clear-eyed calculation about what Russia will do will inform our policy going forward."