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Five years after Trump was impeached over accusations that he pressured Ukraine for political reasons, Biden is pressuring Ukraine for political reasons with no impeachment in sight.
Recent reports in the UK’s Telegraph and Financial Times suggest that Biden is demanding that Ukraine stop attacking Russia’s energy infrastructure because he’s afraid of the impact of high energy prices on the presidential election.
“Mr Biden reportedly raised concerns with Kyiv that the bid to damage Russia’s oil production capacity could have repercussions for his re-election campaign,” The Telegraph reported.
“Nothing terrifies a sitting American president more than a surge in pump prices during an election year,” The Financial Times quoted a former White House energy adviser as saying.
Similar reports have started to appear in other European media outlets including Politico.
Whatever one thinks of the Russia-Ukraine War, Joe Biden’s re-election prospects are an illegitimate and impeachable reason to be conducting a war or any foreign policy.
And this is not a unique event.
Many suspect that Biden’s turn against Israel was driven by a threat to his election prospects from Hamas supporting voters in Dearborn, Michigan, as well as radical leftists in his party.
And this is part of a pattern that has weakened America.
Biden emptied the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) ahead of the midterms to buy support for his party in the middle of the Russia-Ukraine war and ahead of what would become the Hamas war. Those actions left America vulnerable and potentially changed the course of both wars.
The decision to empty the Strategic Petroleum Reserve was not done for national reasons, but personal political ones, and while politicians routinely bribe voters with public money, this particular bribe could end up losing several wars while sending America into an energy crisis.
Biden’s obsession with the impact of oil prices on his time in office led him to provide sanctions relief to Iran even while suppressing domestic energy production. By propping up energy production in enemy nations like Iran and Russia, Biden was able to give his leftist environmentalist base what it wanted, crushing domestic energy production, while ensuring what he thought would be a cheap supply abroad that he could always rely on for elections.
But the Saudis responded to Biden’s sellout on Iran by goosing energy prices, and Russia and Iran took the influx of cash and used it to launch their own wars with disastrous results.
Biden’s support for Ukraine was premised on protecting the flow of Russian oil and gas. Russians and Ukrainians could die in large numbers on both sides, but energy prices couldn’t spiral too far out of control because that might actually affect Biden’s reelection campaign. But as Ukraine struggled on the battlefield, Russia’s energy infrastructure became an easy and obvious target, and Biden’s obvious political agenda became more easily apparent.
Now the European press is talking about it even if it’s still too explosive for the American media.
Democrats widely support both the Ukraine war and ending oil production which when taken together lead to high energy prices. Unable to find a way to combine low domestic production, low energy prices and the Russia-Ukraine war, Biden turned to an easier target: Israel.
Unlike Ukraine, Israel is less popular with Biden’s base. And the Biden administration may be hoping that forcing an end to Israel’s campaign against Hamas will also convince Iran to step down its regional attacks, including by the Houthis in Yemen, and simplify the process of talking the Iranians and even the Saudis into a nuclear deal that will lower energy prices.
Biden has already been negotiating to trade the Saudis nuclear capability for cheap oil.
The Wall Street Journal reported last year that “Saudi Arabia has told the White House it would be willing to boost oil production early next year if crude prices are high”.
This was not just a Saudi proposal, but an explicit request from the Biden administration.
“Two top White House officials, Brett McGurk and Amos Hochstein, flew late last month to Saudi Arabia, where they emphasized that soaring petroleum prices would make it harder to win support in Washington, the officials said,” the Journal reported.
Biden had previously demanded that the Saudis postpone a production cut ahead of the midterms. The Wall Street Journal had reported that, “the one-month delay requested by Washington would have meant a production cut made in the days before the election, too late to have much effect on consumers’ wallets ahead of the vote.”
And Biden had even tried to bribe the Saudis with a fortune in taxpayer money, promising to “buy oil on the market to replenish Washington’s strategic stockpiles if the price of Brent, the main international benchmark, fell to $75 a barrel”.
“There’s going to be some consequences for what they’ve done,” Biden had threatened Saudi Arabia on CNN for failing to go along with his demand for election day oil price rigging.
Biden’s foreign policy of bribing enemies is unnecessary because he has a simple and straightforward way to lower oil prices: restart domestic production.
Instead, Biden broke the law and illegally tried to block domestic energy production. When that failed, his administration deliberately sabotaged oil and gas lease auctions. After putting a former eco-terrorist in charge of the Bureau of Land Management, he tried to restrict offshore drilling to only three sites and his administration was then sued by the energy industry for using “every tool at its disposal” to stop drilling.
How do we square Biden’s militant campaign against domestic drilling with his obsession with low energy prices abroad? There’s no environmental argument for such an incoherent policy.
Biden isn’t acting out of any consistent set of political principles, but personal election needs.
“I can guarantee you if I am president, there will be no offshore drilling,” Biden promised during his presidential campaign. His leftist backers demand an end to domestic energy production.
And yet he also knows that if energy prices are high, American voters will turn on him.
Biden sold out the American energy industry to win over environmentalists and then sold out our national security to get cheap oil. Rather than just a single ‘quid-pro-quo’, Biden’s foreign policy has been one long string of ‘quid-pro-quos’ that have led to international wars and terrorism.
Once Biden had given away our best leverage in the energy market, domestic production, Iran, Russia, the Saudis and other players used that to their advantage to create the crisis we’re in.
This mess is not simply the result of “misguided idealism”, “incompetence” “naivete” or any of the other excuses used to downwardly define this foreign policy deviancy, but the personal political calculations of a corrupt and greedy president who wanted to lie to everyone.
Biden thought that he could trick, appease and use everyone all at the same time. That he could have his energy cake and eat it too. Instead, Americans are stuck with high energy prices, low reserves and two wars that are not likely to end any time soon. All of this happened because the man who wanted to be president lacked the courage to tell his party that they couldn’t have it all.
The Biden presidential campaign was a contradictory mess. It promised Democrats that they could have a version of Obama who would appeal to older white moderate Democrats. It claimed that two incompatible versions of the party could be fused together uniting traditional Democrats and leftist socialists in one man who would combine the best of FDR and JFK.
Biden’s hypocritical corrupt energy policy shows how he tried to make that work and the price that America and the world are paying for it.
Actually, it is stunning to think a cabal of incompetents and corrupts took control of America. The media is a full-fledged accomplice to the decline.
When the history books of this Biden presidency are written, they will have to explain how the American
people and electorate came to vote for the nations first truly depraved psychopath treacherous traitor
President into the Office of the Presidency.
Historically this will be seen as a terrible stain on America and the American people.
It will severely diminish the stature of America and its government and belief in its ideals of Freedom and Liberty.
Biden’s presidency and his woke leftist democrat failed policies will go down in history as providing
proof positive of the supposed evil of America and its threat to world peace and prosperity.
Dom, I think the first treasonous, depraved president was Obama. Biden follows in his wake.
OK Commonsense ….
I stand corrected.
Yes, Obama Rama Lama Ding Dong was the first treasonous, depraved president elected
president of the USA.
The historians of the future will have a lot of explaining to do regarding the mentality of the American people and the electorate that led to their vote of approval for Obama and Biden.
Did the America people and electorate have a nervous breakdown of some sort ?
Or did they just become blind and morally corrupted to the core ?
Speaking of wakes, I just had a thought…
how’s about we have a wake for the pair of them?
They didn’t- he was installed
The media (or what passes for the media.) is even more incompetent and corrupt than the imbeciles running this country. So mush so that it’s now fair, reasonable and justifiable to question the literacy of the American media.
The same applies to congress, Think about it. A 1000 page bill that says nothing useful and that virtually no one ever reads (no one on crapitol hill that is.) Who are they trying to bamboozle? Or is that their way of trying to impress the American people and pat themselves on the back and crow about how smart and wonderful they are? Really?
Personally, I think it’s more than reasonable to question the literacy, competency and ultimately the motives of people who would proffer such inane bullsh*t for passage into law and that’s not a lone opinion.
Biden and Obama and their ilk should read Matthew 16:26 …..
What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Biden and Obama and their ilk should jump off the nearest tall building. The immutable laws of physics will render justice (cosmic and otherwise) unto them and render America some long awaited relief from the sinister scourge of Obama/Biden and their hordes of Marxist parasites.
Regarding ” Biden and Obama and their ilk should jump off the nearest tall building. ”
Obama and Biden believe that they have the power to repeal, via executive order, Newton’s and
Einstein’s Law of Gravity.
And of course the media and the Ivy League Universities will back them up.
In fact, Harvard and Yale and MIT and NYU and Stanford and Penn and USC and UCLA are
offering courses and programs in “Anti-Gravity Studies.”
Lots of depraved Hamas/Palestinians and psychopathic Moo–Slums are already signing up.
While Biden appeases Greenpeace sailing around the Globe in their Fossil Fueled Ships(Arctic Sunrise, Rainbow Warrior II)while opposing Fossil Fuels their Hypocrisy sticks out like a sore thumb
What the fudge? You mean no electric powered ship? Well slap me and call me silly!! Huh… I’m gobsmacked….!
Rowing ships are really the greenest and the woke depraved psychopathic berserk democrats will
mandate them. Norwegian Cruise Line is already converting..
Lots of jobs will be available for DEI Rowers.
Bet on it.
Biden’s ability to “combine the best of FDR and JFK” would at best match FDR running for his fourth term while dying and JFK not finishing his first term.
Whoa whoa whoa whoa!! You’re ascribing way too much intelligence to that dimwitted jackass! I have yet to be convinced that Joe Biden can even walk and chew gum at the same time!!
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve was meant to be used as a strategic reserve for the national interest in times of crisis. Or maybe the politicians all along had the idea of using it to improve their election prospects. Regardless the authority to tap the reserve probably should be delegated to Congress in concurrence with the President (checks and balances). Maybe a 60% or 67% vote of both House and Senate.
The correct environmental and national security policy is drill, drill and drill in American waters and lands
Unfortunately, the greatest impact of Biden’s horrific policies, both foreign and domestic will come after he has shuffled off the presidential stage, and the next President- likely Trump will be left with the mess.
And the leftists will once again use this to claim that the mess came because a Republican president was responsible for it all.
The only thing Biden did in his life is getting elected and re-elected to office. Just like the only thing Chip from Talladega Nights ever did in his life was making a hot daughter.
Very excellent mr greenfield.
States should nullify all of Bidens executive orders and edicts and reclaim their sovereignty, which by their own constitutions and their oaths they have a duty to protect and preserve.
Open energy production in all directions on the sovereign soil of their states and ignore this unconstitutional idiot!
Nullify and end this treasonous nonsense.
The ancient Greek Philosopher, Plato, did have a good valid point when he had written, “The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
The wickedness of Joe Biden is clearly seen by his harming America, as in point number one on the above list by making the United States dependent on foreign oil. Likewise at the time making the price of fuel for truck drivers so very expensive that it cost them $1000 to full one tank of fuel for their trucks therefore making their out of business. Biden is disaster to and for America and the American people in many different ways. The way just described is one of those many ways.
Biden’s wrecking the economy of the United States with is socialist economics he keeps attempting to push on the United States and his always striving against the American free enterprise system. As seen in his shutting down the much needs oil pipeline and at the same time causing many American workers in that business to lose their much needed jobs and likewise creating a drastic rise in the price of gas.
The true “measure” of Biden on America regarding fuel costs as well as on many other important subjects, as employment, is nothing less than a horrendous economic catastrophe.
Joe Biden as a politician of fifty years in government had done nothing for the betterment of the United States. Now starting from January 20, 2021 pseudo “president” Biden has only harmed America.
For Biden even had the gall to say in a speech about his Republican opponents as “being against everything” he should first look into the mirror.
Biden is against American being oil independent.
Biden must be against low gas prices.
Biden must be against low food prices
Biden is against the American free enterprise system.
Biden must be against the American worker because of his socialist economic policies
Biden is definitely against a strong firm secure US/Mexican border.
Biden is against funding and supporting the police force
Biden is against supporting our only one good friend in the Middle East the State of Israel.
Biden is against putting the hostile vicious anti. America “mullah regime” of Iran in its place by giving those in power in that Islamic tyranny everything they demand.
Biden is the negative one.
Biden’s support for Ukraine was premised on protecting the flow of Russian oil and gas.
Anyone wanna bet on how close to “Top of Mind” that was as he allowed a rather large pair of gas pipes to get destroyed, thus ENDING the transport of natural gas into Europe, particularly Germany. About the only way he will stop walking crooked is to sit down.