Embracing Autocrats to Help Ukraine Is a Losing Proposition

Opinion piece on the messy geopolitics of getting the global community to help Ukraine by isolating Russia.

"We already see the risk of this tradeoff in the quest to increase the global supply of oil and gas to compensate for the loss of Russian sources. As a condition for helping, the governments of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates reportedly want renewed U.S. assistance for their disastrous campaign of bombing and blockading Yemeni civilians. The Saudi crown prince reportedly has added that he wants immunity from lawsuits in the United States for his government’s murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi."