{"id":7414,"date":"2022-03-08T16:56:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T16:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7414"},"modified":"2022-03-08T16:56:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T16:56:14","slug":"how-to-boost-the-u-s-economy-while-sticking-it-to-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7414","title":{"rendered":"How To Boost the U.S. Economy While Sticking It to Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“the U.S. should “make the smart move and take away the men and women Putin needs to win” the fight in Ukraine. “The United States could, with a stroke of a pen, totally destroy the capacity of Russia to compete militarily or economically with us by offering a green card to any Russian with a technical degree who wishes to emigrate to the United States,” Zubrin continued. Such a move may not stop the current invasion, but it would hobble Russia’s ability to participate in the high-tech economy\u2014fully in line with a central thrust of Biden’s\u00a0announced sanctions<\/a>\u00a0against the Kremlin.
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Getting Russian brainpower out of Putin’s hands will undoubtedly benefit America. The U.S. has a history of accepting great minds fleeing rival nations, from the scientists who\u00a0escaped<\/a>\u00a0the Axis and later staffed the Manhattan Project to the many artists, athletes, and authors who\u00a0defected<\/a>\u00a0from the Soviet Union. Immigrants are more likely to\u00a0start businesses<\/a>\u00a0than native-born Americans, a trend that\u00a0fully applies<\/a>\u00a0to Russian migrants. Accepting Russian immigrants, as with other groups, would help\u00a0create<\/a>\u00a0jobs for native-born Americans\u2014not take them away<\/a>.”
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“the U.S. should “make the smart move and take away the men and women Putin needs to win” the fight in Ukraine. “The United States could, with a stroke of a pen, totally destroy the capacity of Russia to compete militarily or economically with us by offering a green card to any Russian with a technical degree who wishes to emigrate to the United States,” Zubrin continued. Such a move may not stop the current invasion, but it would hobble Russia’s ability to participate in the high-tech economy\u2014fully in line with a central thrust of Biden’s announced sanctions against the Kremlin.<\/p>\n

Getting Russian brainpower out of Putin’s hands will undoubtedly benefit America. The U.S. has a history of accepting great minds fleeing rival nations, from the scientists who escaped the Axis and later staffed the Manhattan Project to the many artists, athletes, and authors who defected from the Soviet Union. Immigrants are more likely to start businesses than native-born Americans, a trend that fully applies to Russian migrants. Accepting Russian immigrants, as with other groups, would help create jobs for native-born Americans\u2014not take them away.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,217,165,272,355,493,25,314,1545,316,315,311,619,158],"class_list":["post-7414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-international-relations","tag-invasion","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7415,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7414\/revisions\/7415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}