The immediate path to stopping Vladimir Putin’s brazen and brutal war in Ukraine may not be entirely clear, just yet. But one thing is certain: global supply chain dependencies on Russian oil and natural gas are what will allow Putin to continue financing it. Unless the U.S. and its allies reorient supply chain dynamics for the long-term, today’s conflict won’t be the last of its kind. To preserve and strengthen democratic order, unite to take down Putin economically, and reduce the potential for dependency-induced conflict to continue, we need to re-order our critical global supply-chains through what we call ally-shoring.
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