Posted on 02/27/2022 5:46:03 AM PST by Hojczyk
Carter 2.0
Why did the Russians invade Ukraine? One reason is that they could afford to. Vladimir Putin’s neo-Tsarist empire has piled up an estimated $631 billion in currency reserves. That’s a lot of mad money, or should we say, conquest money.
And a principal reason that Putin has all that wealth is that the Biden administration has been helping him, however inadvertently.
How did Joe Biden help Putin? Biden imposed energy scarcity on this country, thereby opening up more of the world market for the Russians to sell their energy. And because energy is scarcer, it’s more expensive—all good news for Putin and his military.
Yes, sadly, the Trump-era strategy of American energy dominance gave way to Biden’s plan for energy shrinkage. All in the name, of course, of combating “climate change.”
Indeed, the 46th president’s sickly energy strategy brings to mind that of one his predecessors. That would be the 39th president, Democrat Jimmy Carter, who, like Biden, also presided over energy shrinkage, higher prices, and resulting strategic weakness.
Okay, so that’s depressing: The thought that we’re living through Carter 2.0. Yet here’s an encouraging thought: We survived the sad-sack saga of Carter, and then we triumphed when Carter was replaced, after a single term, by the 40th president, Ronald Reagan, who undid Carter’s policies and, truly, made America great. So if we did it then, we can do it again: 2024 isn’t that far away. And that’s an encouraging thought.
We’ll get to Reagan in a moment, but first, let’s take a closer look at the Carterian present-day.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
From the article…
The embattled Ukrainians have noticed the financial source of Russian aggression.
The Ukrainians have been saying all along that if the civilized world wants to deter Putin, it will have to hit him where he lives—it will have to focus on energy, not little things that the Russian autocrat doesn’t really care about. “We need real sanctions, not just some problems for Putin’s friends,” Ukrainian lawmaker Oleksiy Goncharenko tweeted on February 24. “We need an embargo on Russian gas and oil because every barrel of Russian oil and every cubic meter of Russian gas is now full of the blood of Ukrainians.” That’s a good way to put it: Russian hydrocarbons equals Ukrainian blood.
We is Brandon???????
Biden cancelled the Cyprus to EU pipeline.
Biden suspended licenses for oil/gas drilling in US.
Biden did not put sanctions on Russian oil/gas.
Nobody has done more to empower Russia in the last few months than Biden and the communist environmentalists around the world.
Not “inadvertently”. The propaganda media continues to try to cover for Biden.
Yeah but no more mean tweets!
Our “press” tries to pretend that the Biden admin is NOT on Putin’s side.
The is the Great American Fire Sale hosted by those who sold out America first.
Is this an attempt by the lamestream media to say that Biden isn’t the only one who screwed up? It’s not as bad as we think because it happened before and the country survived?
Carter had to deal with OPEC. Biden surrendered our energy independence to the climate change charlatans.
” Yeah but no more mean tweets! “
Isn’t that the nub of it?
So many Americans would gladly see WWIII than have Trump in power again.
And if things head that way, we...Oh, Look! Climate change! Covid! Sean Penn!
He had already lost the war with his diapers, so what were the voters expecting?
I don’t believe in coincidences, they do it on purpose.
Yah know, that is interesting.
Look at MSM (CNN, MSNBC, etc) messaging. All in support of Ukraine. All from the same folks who lied for years about practically everything. Everything.
So, I’m now supposed to think that they are cheering for the good guys? I’m pretty darned sure they are incapable, except by random chance, of identifying anything “good” of any type.
FR THREAD....Biden Finds A New Level Of Worthless
Given how the Biden administration is bending over backwards to protect Putin’s cash flow, you’d think Hunter was on his payroll.
How else to explain that the Biden administration has explicitly excluded financial transactions “related to energy” from any impact from sanctions?
The definition of “related to energy” the Treasuring Department put out can literally be interpreted to mean about 99 percent of all transactions anywhere. Read this and ask yourself what sanctions actually matter? You won’t find many.
You really do have to think Hunter is cashing checks directly from Putin at this point. It’s the only way to explain the disconnect between the rhetoric and the reality coming out of the President’s mouth.
Stupidity and senility only go so far, this is so blatant that there has to be more to it. Joe Biden has always been worthless, he’s now taken that skill to a whole new level. And a lot of people are dying because of it.
Joe Biden didn’t “lose” anything, he SOLD out so Hunter would have a Lifetime Supply of CRACK and Joe got a Big Truck full of Ice Cream
Get ready. They're going to accuse Trump of colluding with Putin in a gigantic plot to make Brandon look bad.
Trump has already announced he’s running in 2024. Now we have to prevent Biden’s RA=DICAL WORSE THAN GINGSBER SCOTUS PICK, START CALLING, EMAILING YOU GOP SENATORS.
My senators are Schumer and Gillibrand.
OUCH! Hagerty, Blackburn, Blackburn is up for re-election. We are already Pissed off at her for not standing up for Trump.
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