“You don’t know where a megalomaniac dictator is going to head,” Mitt Romney said of Putin.
As global sanctions clamp down on Russia, Sen. Romney said Utah could help supply Europe with natural resources for energy.
Romney’s remarks came during a half-hour virtual news conference hosted by the senator from his Washington office on Wednesday afternoon. Along with Tuesday night’s State of the Union, the senator also discussed the United State’s response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, global energy policy and domestic concerns like federal spending and inflation.
“My goodness, Zelenskyy is an extraordinary leader, a Churchill-ian leader,” the senator said, comparing Ukraine’s president to the former wartime prime minister that led the United Kingdom through the German blitzkrieg of World War II. “And the people [of Ukraine] are strong and resilient and impressive as well.”
The senator explained that sanctions on Russia will directly affect energy prices, here and abroad, and said the U.S. should be less reliant on Russian oil. He added that Utah could help make up the difference where sanctions have prevented Russian natural resources from making it to the global market. Essentially, Utah could help balance the global energy equation.
“We produce a lot of coal in Utah. And whether we’re the ones that ship it to Europe, or whether others in the U.S. do and then we backfill them, is an uncertain question,” he said. If the government could compress the decadelong approval process for vaccines, he explained, “we probably need to do the same with regards to permitting as it relates to renewables and other ways to reduce carbon emissions.”
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