Posted on 04/26/2022 9:38:32 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus
Germany's decision to not immediately end Russian oil imports β a move that would deliver a crucial blow to the Kremlin over its war in Ukraine β came at the urgent request of the Biden administration, a senior European official involved in Russian sanctions tells Newsmax.
The European official told Newsmax that the Biden administration has also been pushing the Germans to delay cutting off Russian oil until later this year and after the U.S. midterm elections.
The White House appears to believe it has a chance to keep the Senate in Democrat hands β but that opportunity could be endangered from a serious spike in oil prices if Germany had to start buying oil from global markets.
Earlier this month, President Biden signed a law that bans all Russian imports of oil, gas, and coal to the U.S.
But Biden had been reluctant to approve such a ban fearing the already high cost of gasoline would grow, even though the U.S. only imports 3% of crude oil from Russia.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and other Congressional Democrats, led the charge on banning Russian oil imports.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock announced last Wednesday that Germany will stop importing half of its oil from Russia by summer with the remainder closed down at year's end.
But those comments were quickly qualified by Germany's Finance Minister Christian Lindner, who suggested that a quick cut-off of Russian oil won't happen anytime soon.
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Everything out of Biden's mouth is bullshit.
Politicians don’t want to “solve problems”.
They simply want to “manage the situation”. For political and financial gain.
Uh, libgressives looking for the all important chermin-mooselimb vote for the mid terms. ππ
The only thing politicians care about is getting reelected.
But don’t worry, the whole DC Uniparty neocon 20 year adventure in Ukraine is otherwise pure and motivated by only the most noble intentions.
On the positive side - it means US elections still matter!
And padding their bank accounts typically using influence peddling or other fraudulent activities.
Afghanistan 2.0.
Biden needs this war to keep the public’s attention away from the border and economy.
So the German people will have heat until our mid term elections because it might help the dems a little but after Nov, they're screwed.
Who here doesn't believe now that reactions to COVID, even though global, was all about our Nov 2020 election?
The reason the emergency oil reserve was tapped, is that, gas pumps not be shown without fuel.
Proof positive that Biden and democrats are not working for the good of the country, but instead, for the good of the democrat party.
Party first, personal enrichment second, country last. But, pretending to care about blacks and other minorities along the way, for political purposes, of course.
It's like a boxer "delivering a crucial blow" to his opponent in the ring by punching himself in the face and kidneys numerous times.
But don't tell the neocontards that...
If this were Trump, he would have already been impeached and convicted.
I'm old enough to remember when the war cry of the Democrats and the NeverTrumping Assistant Democrats on Twitter was "country before party!!" - while they were trying to remove the President who was in the opposing party...
-PJ
Too bad their Ukrainian Puppets (with our help, no doubt) took out the oil pipeline in Russia...same one that supplies Germany.
Beat me to it. This would be a 24/7 hate-fest on the MSM if it were the Trump admin.
Talk about Russian Collusion and affecting US elections. C’mon man!
Colluding with a foreign government to win an election.
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