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DrMaddVibe
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5 years ago

What Does Putin Have on Biden?

Only a few months ago, the Biden administration argued that Nord Stream 2, a proposed natural gas pipeline running from Russia to Germany, was “a bad deal” that “exposes Ukraine and Central Europe.”

White House press secretary Jen Psaki had noted at the time that any new pipeline carrying the fossil fuel on the continent “goes against Europe’s own stated energy and security goals.”

This week, Axios reports that President Joe Biden is set to waive sanctions against a major company building the pipeline—as well as its CEO, Matthias Warnig, a former Stasi agent and a Putin, er, associate.

Setting aside a debate over the usefulness of waivers, the muted reaction to the lifting of sanctions once again exposes that the Russian collusion hysteria that enveloped the media and political conversation for nearly five years was a contrived effort to spin a lie.

The Democrats have shamelessly fluctuated on Russian policy. And it is not only that many of the same officials crafting Biden’s foreign policy mocked Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, for warning about Russian geopolitical threats.

Even before President Barack Obama asked Russian President Vladimir Putin’s flunky Dmitry Medvedev to “transmit” his promise “to Vladimir” about “flexibility” on missile defense, the United States had already canceled the sale of American missile defense systems to our allies in Poland and the Czech Republic.

It was Obama who spent two years trying to kill the Magnitsky Act. It was Obama who allowed Russia to operate with impunity in Syria to protect the prospects of the Iran deal.

It was Biden, not Comrade Trump, who championed the “reset” and capitulated to Russia on accession to the World Trade Organization. “President Obama has made Russia’s WTO membership a top priority for U.S.-Russia relations in 2011,” the White House explained.

All of this was forgotten when the media decided that American democracy had been stolen by a smattering of Facebook ads and some Twitter bots. As this went on, the Trump administration opened up the sale of lethal weapons to Ukraine—including anti-tank missiles.

It was President Donald Trump who reinstated sales of Patriot missile defense systems to Eastern Europe and continued to impose sanctions and other measures. It was Trump who refused to extend a one-sided arms-control agreement. Biden is now seeking a five-year extension.

Now, perhaps it’s in the best interests of Germany to build a natural gas pipeline and in our best interests to stay out of Europe’s energy decisions. I tend to think so. If Germany is comfortable securing fuel from a Russian kleptocracy, who are we, a nation now willing to empower the theocratic oil-producing regime in Iran, to lecture it?

But, it shouldn’t be lost on us that not only does the Nord Stream 2 enrich and strengthen Putin’s hold on power, also, it’s in direct contradiction to Biden’s stated claim that the “climate crisis” is now a major factor in his administration’s foreign policy decisions.

The pipeline is likely to critically undercut the ability of Germany, now in the middle of a nuclear phaseout, to meet Paris Agreement targets. Then again, the treaty, which Biden rejoined in one of his first acts as president, also benefits Russia, which will simply ignore inconvenient carbon emission goals.

It is also difficult not to notice that news of the waivers comes only a week after a cyberattack emanating from Russia shut down the massive Colonial Pipeline, resulting in shortages and gas lines in the eastern United States—for which Biden gave Putin absolution before any major investigation could possibly have been conducted.

This is also the same president who shut down the construction of our own Keystone XL pipeline, costing thousands of jobs.

The waivers are almost certainly meant to ease tensions in advance of today’s meeting in Iceland between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov. Yet, reading news coverage in the context of the past five years of Russia mania is something of a surreal experience.

In Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power” newsletter today, I learned that the Arctic Council meeting is the president’s second chance at a “reset,” in which “Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin can reinvigorate U.S.-Russia relations that have been in a deep freeze for years.”

How could this be after four years of Putin infiltrating the White House? Trump, a Russian asset since 1987, must have been a supreme disappointment to the Kremlin.

It is without question that any such allowance by Trump would have been met with a frenzied round of bellowing from the conspiracists who still populate cable news networks. They would have wondered aloud what kind of kompromat Putin had on Trump.

Biden has said a lot of scathing things about Putin—calling him “evil” and “a killer” (true and true)—but there is no evidence that his policies are any tougher on Russia than Trump’s. In many ways, in fact, they seem less so.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/05/21/what-does-putin-have-on-biden/?u

Bet it deals with Hunter.

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Speyside
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5 years ago

Interesting thoughts in the article.

tonygraz
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5 years ago

I see there are still some who believe trump was tough on russia. After seeing them after their one on one at one of the summit meetings, I have no doubt that Putin scared the crap out of trump.

RayR
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5 years ago

What Does Putin Have on Biden?

He's got a huge dossier full of juicy stuff about the Biden crime family's activities in Russia and Ukraine.:-k

borndead1
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5 years ago

It's probably about money, not about dirt. Most geopolitical sh*t is about money.

ZRX1200
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5 years ago

Tony do you know any Russians?

Speyside
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5 years ago

Actually if you take the political bias out of it, and Trumps silly comments and tweets out of it, Trump was tough on Russia.

RayR
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5 years ago

It's probably about money, not about dirt. Most geopolitical sh*t is about money.

borndead1 wrote:

Not with Hunter, there's sure to be hoes in there too.

tonygraz
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5 years ago

Tony do you know any Russians?

ZRX1200 wrote:

Do Ukrainians count ?

RayR
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5 years ago

#10

I've known some Ukrainians that escaped the Russian commie genocide. They didn't want to be associated with Russians, I can tell you that.

Speyside
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5 years ago

#11

Yes, but not in English usually.

ZRX1200
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5 years ago

#12

Not until they’ve been annexed.....

ZRX1200
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5 years ago

#13

You think Pres Harris is gonna let that one go next year?

delta1
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5 years ago

#14

no surprise that any opinion published in the far right Daily Signal is critical of Biden...

just like cons don't trust the NY Times editorials and opinion pieces, libs don't trust DS...

both sides like "comfort food" from their preferred media sources...

tonygraz
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5 years ago

#15

Not until they’ve been annexed.....

ZRX1200 wrote:

But they were annexed, just like the Latvian, Lithuanian and Hungarian guys I knew. Is drinking a lot of Vodka an acceptable option ?

Plowboy221
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5 years ago

#16

Biden can’t remember, sorry.

RayR
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5 years ago

#17

But they were annexed, just like the Latvian, Lithuanian and Hungarian guys I knew. Is drinking a lot of Vodka an acceptable option ?

tonygraz wrote:

Your commie friends are still mad about them seceding from the Soviet Union. They wanted to send troops and tanks in
to slaughter and pillage like Lincoln to stop that political self-determination chit.

DrMaddVibe
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5 years ago

#18

Biden’s Russian Collusion

Is Joe Biden a Russian asset?

After reading this tale of three pipelines, that unhappy ending will be hard to avoid.

First, on Jan. 20, Biden’s first afternoon as president, he ditched the Trump-approved Keystone XL pipeline. Some 11,000 high-paying jobs, many unionized, vanished.

While these suddenly unemployed Americans sulked, Russian President Vladimir Putin cheered. By trapping Canadian oil underground, Keystone’s cancellation curbed long-term supplies of crude oil. This boosted global prices for Russia’s key export. Indeed, for this and other reasons, crude has crept from $53 per barrel at Biden’s inauguration to $67 Thursday—up 26%.

Second, Colonial Pipeline shut itself down May 7 after a ransomware attack. Carteresque gasoline lines soon stretched from Georgia to Washington, D.C. Biden stayed mum until May 10, when he tepidly exonerated the Kremlin.

“So far, there is no evidence, based on our intelligence people, that Russia is involved,” Biden said. Officials blame DarkSide’s private sector e-thieves, not state-sponsored saboteurs.

OK, but where was Biden’s outrage? Where were Biden’s public demands that Putin deploy his secret police to smoke out these cyberhoods and extradite them for U.S. interrogation and prosecution?

Third, Biden then rewarded the Kremlin for its acquiescence (or worse) in the Colonial caper by scrapping sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline between Russia and Germany.

Biden’s betrayal fails on environmental grounds.

Germany will not import American liquefied natural gas, as former President Donald Trump pressed Chancellor Angela Merkel to do. Nor will Germany swap gas for windmills or geothermal. Instead, Germany will burn Russian natural gas. While it’s one-third cleaner than oil and twice as clean as coal, Germany and some neighboring nations still will turn gas into energy and carbon dioxide.

Page 308 of Keystone’s environmental impact statement says that its oil would have generated up to 178 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually. For those whom this irks, killing Keystone was a beautiful thing.

But wait!

Nord Stream 2 would carry up to 55 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Ust-Luga, Russia, to Greifswald, Germany. That gas, according to Gen Less’ online calculator, would generate 132 million metric tons of carbon dioxide. So, by speeding Nord Stream 2, Biden will have combusted 74% of the anti-global warming “benefit” that he created by junking Keystone.

Environmentalists should be enraged.

Gazprom’s Nord Stream 2 will add $3.3 billion to Russia’s annual gross domestic product, Statista estimates. Though a tidy sum, the Kremlin’s jackpot is geopolitical.

“Nord Stream 2 would enable the Putin regime to further weaponize Russia’s energy resources to exert political pressure throughout Europe,” two U.S. House Democrats and two Republicans wrote Secretary of State Antony Blinken in February.

“The majority of Europe also opposes the Kremlin-backed pipeline, particularly in light of the poisoning and wrongful arrest of leading Russian anti-corruption activist and opposition figure Alexey Navalny,” the bipartisan lawmakers added.

Nord Stream 2 also would deprive Moscow’s ex-satellites of revenues from pipelines that cross their territories. Elsevier Energy Policy concluded last June: “Ukraine alone is to lose an estimated $2 billion from transfer fees and, to a lesser extent, the EU members Slovakia, Hungary, and Poland would be also harmed by Nord Stream 2.”

Finally, Biden announced that the time is now for a June 16 summit with Putin in Geneva, following G-7 and NATO conclaves. Thus, Moscow will pay not even a diplomatic price after its citizens corked U.S. fuel supplies in exchange for a $4.4 million Bitcoin ransom.

Biden has squandered Trump’s hard-won energy independence, destroyed related American jobs, and torpedoed Trump’s diplomacy, which had prevented Germany from sticking Putin’s natural-gas needle into its collective arm. Now, Germany will become addicted—not to U.S. liquefied natural gas, but gas from the very adversary that NATO was designed to defeat.

As the caviar and vodka surely flow just yards from Lenin’s tomb, would Democrats please explain again why Trump was Moscow’s mule, and Biden the answer to his predecessor’s “Russian collusion”?

https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/05/28/bidens-russian-collusion/?

RayR
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5 years ago

#19

Yes, of course, Biden and his entourage of Orcs are an embarrassment on the world stage, puppets that only foreign dicktators and domestic fools can love, the bitter fruit of Amerikan duhmacracy.

For all Trump's faults, Joey B takes the cake man!🍺

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