Our Asinine Russia Policy: Dump the Singers, Keep the Oil

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Left: Opera singer Anna Netrebko gestures during the opening ceremony of the traditional Opera Ball in Vienna, Austria, February 28, 2019. Right: A worker checks a valve of an oil pipe at the Lukoil company outside the West Siberian city of Kogalym, Russia, January 25, 2016. (Leonhard Foeger, Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)
The craze of collectively punishing ordinary Russians over Putin’s invasion is counterproductive.




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here was a time during America’s war in Iraq when Americans traveling to Europe had to endure occasional eye rolls, sighs, and unwelcome political commentary from the locals. I remember enduring just a little of this myself and talking to others who had endured it.

I believed the war was a blunder, that George W. Bush was a fool, and that America had kicked over a hornet’s nest in the Middle East, one that continued stinging us and others long after Bush had left office. But when in a foreign country, hearing even an echo of my own sentiments said to

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