Posted on 04/05/2023 10:10:36 PM PDT by bitt
Three days after Hunter Biden joined the Board of Directors at Burisma energy company in Ukraine, Joe Biden traveled to the country and pushed for fracking.
Joe Biden forbids gas and energy production, including fracking, in the US.
The Daily Mail reported:
Joe Biden pushed for Ukraine to frack gas during his 2014 vice presidential visit – just days after his son Hunter joined the board of a firm set to profit from it.
The first son joined the board of allegedly corrupt Ukrainian gas firm Burisma on April 18, 2014, the company announced in a press release at the time.
Three days later, Joe was aboard Air Force 2 for an official visit to the East European country.
One of his senior officials briefed reporters on the plane that the VP was pushing ‘medium- and long-term strategies to boost conventional gas production, and also to begin to take advantage of the unconventional gas reserves that are in Ukraine.’
Hunter landed the gig just two months after he was discharged from the US military for cocaine use.
The Wall Street Journal reported in October of 2014 that the Vice President’s son, Hunter Biden, was released from the Navy for cocaine use:
Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter was discharged from the Navy Reserve this year after testing positive for cocaine, according to people familiar with the matter.
Hunter Biden, a lawyer by training who is now a managing partner at an investment company, had been commissioned as an ensign in the Navy Reserve, a part-time position. But after failing a drug test last year, his brief military career ended.
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We’re doomed when such scumbags can swindle their way into the White House.
With the exception of Hillary and that toad she’s married to, there’s never been a first family that strikes out on so many points. Is this the deep state thumbing its nose at God, country, and all that’s decent? A final smirk before it starts slitting throats? Seems like it.
Just that documented admittance should have put joe behind bars! When Trump was sworn in he went way too easy on joe and hillary. I hope jeff sessions is enjoying his retirement!
Well, yeah. But did you know that, according to Stephen Greene, President Trump in an attempt to defraud the United States Government, overpayed his taxes?
HuH?
Lock this POS and is spawn up.
Hunter doesn’t get protection. He should pay for his real crimes because no one is above the law.
no one is above the law.
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I assume this week’s shennaginans will provide the direction of PRECEDENT!
Here are a few facts and questions to introduce into this discussion.
1) Two major US oil companies had signed exploration agreements with Ukraine in 2012. THere were oil and gas prospects in the Black Sea surrounding Crimea and also in the east areas of Donbas and Luhansk.
2) Putin completed his annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea during Feb./March 2014.
3) Around this time Putin’s “little green men” started their aggressive actions in east Ukraine.
4) Was VP Biden following instructions in April 2014 to put obstacles in Putin’s way? At any rate the oil exploration contracts were canceled that year. Hunter definitely a poor choice. I don’t think he or his brother every really recovered from the death of their mother in the fatal auto accident they all experienced when they both were children.
5) What agreements did President Trump make about Ukraine in his private meeting(s?) with Putin after he was elected?
6) Regarding “Joe Biden forbids gas and energy production,” President Biden has forbidden (new?) contracts on public lands. [I believe we taxpayers are frequently underpaid for past earnings by private companies on our public lands.] He has NOT forbidden production on private lands.
7) Some of our more expensive oil areas, including fracking sites, shut down when oil became too cheap for profits. The break even point for a number of these seems to be around $80 a barrel. That is where world prices are hovering these days. The recent Saudi moves to decrease production and increase prices should motivate some restoration of pumping and new US drilling.
8) Putin’s goals in Crimea and eastern Ukraine have been to seize principal oil, gas, and coal reserves of Ukraine, and prevent them from competing with Russian products in Europe. Well, he has lost that market. If he keeps control of those parts of Ukraine he can develop and sell elsewhere. He has totally destroyed many cities and towns in those areas as his interest is in the underground and not the surface assets.
Should!
The Saudis have historically been staunch allies of the United States. Iran is a fundamental threat to Saudi, Israel, and other Middle Eastern Countries. With Trump as president the Saudies, the UAE, Egypt, Israel etc. were firm allies. Under Trump, Israel and Saudi became DeFacto partners of defense against Iran via the Abraham Accords.
Biden destroyed all of this by being soft on Iran and terrorism. In effect he dropped his pants, pointed his butt toward Iran and said “okay boys.”
The Saudi’s are no longer a staunch Allie of the USA. The see weakness in Biden and realize that they must perhaps seek closer relationships with China.
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