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Biden’s war on oil is funding Putin’s war on Ukraine
June 24, 2022

Biden’s war on oil is funding Putin’s war on Ukraine

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President Biden’s bizarre and implacable hostility to U.S. oil producers is helping Russia win its war against Ukraine.

No joke, as Biden might say. Not only has the president’s unswerving effort to squash domestic oil and gas production caused higher prices for consumers, a looming recession as the Federal Reserve struggles to dampen inflation and disastrously low approval ratings, it is also funding Russia’s destruction of its neighbor.

The U.S. is the world’s largest oil and gas producer. Because of the COVID-19 shutdowns, but also because of the many restrictions and costs piled onto domestic producers by the Biden administration, and in recognition of those likely to follow, U.S. output has declined from 13.1 million barrels per day in February 2020 to 11.9 mb/d today.

Taking over 1 million barrels per day off the world market amid what was until recently a global economic expansion has helped boost prices. And higher prices are funding Putin’s war with Ukraine.

Consider: On June 10 the central bank of Russia dropped its key lending rate by 150 basis points, the fourth such cut in the past few months.

This even as financial authorities around the world, including in the U.S., are pushing rates higher to dampen demand and squash inflation.

Why would the Bank of Russia be such an outlier? Because the economy of that belligerent nation, though suffering rising poverty and double-digit inflation, is doing much better than expected. The reason is oil prices, which are 60 percent above levels from one year ago.

Higher oil prices have helped stabilize Russia’s export revenues, and its currency. The ruble had tumbled to a value below one U.S. cent in March, after Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, down from 1.4 cents the year before.

Today, the ruble is trading at 1.8 cents, its highest level since 2015.

This is how ineffective the West’s sanctions against Russia have been. Yes, Putin’s economy is contracting; yes, inflation is at levels that would have Fed Chairman Jerome Powell run out of town on a rail. But the truth is, the West’s concerted efforts to slam Russia’s income have been a dismal failure.

Because of oil prices. Russia’s current account surplus for the five months January through May exceeded $110 billion, more than triple the amount earned during the same period last year.

This is shocking considering that Biden promised Americans that imposing the toughest-ever sanctions on Russia would “impose severe costs on the Russian economy, both immediately and over time.” Those restrictions, he promised, would “impair their ability to compete in a high-tech 21st century economy.”

Those much-ballyhooed sanctions have come up short. This means that Putin can continue his destruction of Ukraine, which according to one estimate is costing $876 million per day, or roughly the same as its revenues from energy exports, while the West continues to sit by and watch. This is unacceptable.

It also begs the question: Did no one see this coming? Did not any of the financial experts in the White House or in the United Kingdom or France imagine that cutting off a major oil exporter might drive prices higher?

Did no one imagine that western nations might want to anticipate such an outcome by pushing every means possible to increase oil and gas production elsewhere? Including, for instance, in the U.S.?

This is not Monday morning quarterbacking. This seems like common sense, and yet apparently this entirely inevitable outcome has come as a surprise. Not least to our president, whose obdurate hostility to American oil and gas producers is as puzzling as it is harmful.

Did Biden’s family get short-changed at the local service station? What caused the peculiar animosity that Biden seems to harbor against Big Oil and Little Oil too?

Imagine: during a verifiable energy crisis, with gasoline prices so high that people are cutting back on driving, Biden will not meet with oil industry executives. While he has met in person or virtually with other industry groups, he refuses this most important get-together of all, instead delegating the sit-down to his energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm.

White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed that the president won’t attend the meeting, but is “keenly interested in its outcome,” according to one report.

Biden’s antipathy towards the oil and gas industry is unfortunate. His campaign promise to shut down fossil fuels may have been hot air, but as he scrambles to address voters’ number one concern – inflation – energy is key. It is true there is no short-term fix for the current high cost of oil. But a sensible stand-down of punitive regulations and a constructive long-term plan to boost production of oil and gas here at home would begin to bear fruit by 2024, an important year for beleaguered Democrats.

Meanwhile, the war in Ukraine drags on. So far, the U.S. has committed $54 billion to that unhappy nation, more than one-third of its pre-COVID annual GDP. Other countries have pitched in with war materiel and assistance. And yet, it is evident that Russia has regrouped after early setbacks and is steadily expanding its hold on Ukraine territory.

How can we be surprised? Biden reportedly criticized Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken for saying the U.S. wanted Ukraine to win its war against Russia. The president thought they had gone “too far,” according to NBC News.

Winning is apparently off the table. So too is the one measure that could take us there: a full-out effort to raise U.S. oil and gas output, which would finally slam Putin’s economy.

Biden’s war on oil is funding Putin’s war on Ukraine

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Are you better off than you were 2 years ago?
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Are you better off than you were two years ago? That’s what Republicans will ask voters a year from now.

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Inflation is worldwide and COVID induced.

No Trump, No Trump Doctrine

There's a growing rumble, by the minute, from people all over the planet who are suddenly missing Trump's policies, not necessarily Trump.

First, Trump's policies, domestic and foreign, were clear and common-sense driven which is anathema to the Swamp control freaks who thrive on complication and confusion to mask their real agendas and who they're really working for.

Second, the hypocrites who are now lamenting Trump's policies are the same, domestic and foreign, who fought Trump every inch of the way to prevent the implementation of policies that clearly worked.

Third, without Trump the fighter, no Trump policies would have ever seen the light of day.

And without what is now collectively the Trump Doctrine, what clear metric would we have to truly understand the depth and devastation of the Biden/Swamp debacle?

Don't you know that the global supply chain story is done on purpose for there to be empty shelves at the grocery stores and what not to screw with the public. This is done by the world economic Forum with the likes of Klaus Schwab Bill Gates and George Soros and their ilk

YOU are the delusional personality, dear. Sticking it against the US to please 🖕trump and putin. Disgusting anti American.

Nope

Maybe Liz you would support some immigration reform , you bitch about not having enough servers in your entitled selfish world , oh and you are against mask wearing too , how trumpian of you, the pandemic is all a hoax to you , just dont get sick out there might not be any hospital beds for you . The drs and nurses are sick and tired of taking care of anti mask anti vax selfish repubs Go claim your Darwin Award .

Stupid doesn't describe Liz Peek well enough. No one knows who you are so whenever you troll your way onto some useless FOX program, you utter absurd TDS infected nonsense. Stay smart Mensa. I will never have you on my radio talk show.

how soon some forget. after herschel loses- PRES TRUMP got these jobs done- cheap gas. no soldier deaths the last 18 months of afghan when he was in office. He cut taxes. the largest in America's history. cut regulations. got us out of the Iran deal. put the american embassy in jerusalem. took it to the terrorists. such as soleimani, and al-baghdadi. built the wall on our southern border on 350 miles of our southern border. REAL MEDIAN household income grew to $68,703 in 2019, an impressive 6.8% increase over 2018. While the overall growth rate was 6.8%, real median income grew by an even greater 7.9% for Black Americans, 7.1% for Hispanic Americans, and 10.6% for Asian Americans. All record highs as were the new income levels for each of these groups. Joe's handlers are heading us to the "misery index" purposely. Did I say cheap gas? Please list for me what Joe's handlers have done for you? be the first to answer my question. LOL

TRUMP VS THE GLOBALIST MURDOCH MEDIA EMPIRE

This has been brewing from the day Trump became president and refused to tow the line for the Murdochs or anybody else in the Swamp Establishment, comprised of RINOS, the Democratic Party, their globalist masters and media propagandists all rolled into one.

And it's been a non-stop, phony, six-year witch hunt ever since.

What's breaking out across media land is the central battle between the self-serving globalist crowd who want to rule the world as their personal piggy bank and their greatest obstacle: a strong, independent, self-sustaining American Middle Class of all stripes and creeds – in the majority – that made this country great and will not be told how to think, how to live their lives, raise their families or certainly how to vote.

The big threat here is Trump's policies that worked for and empowered the American people, not the Swamp full of special interests. Not to mention the eye-opening example Trump's successful policies set for people around the world who are needlessly suffering under globalist rule.

We became known as the land of the free for hard-earned reasons.

Now the globalists want to drag us back to the good old feudal days of serfdom where we get to labor for their great benefit while with our heads bowed we are given the privilege of eking out basic subsistence for ourselves and our families.

The Murdochs have launched in unison their media troops/mouthpieces in a full frontal assault. Some who have been chomping at the bit, others, it appears, reluctantly. With big paychecks hanging in the balance, it'll be interesting to see who, if anybody, breaks ranks.

DeSantis has done a great job as governor of Florida, has great potential and to his credit has followed Trump's lead in revolutionizing the Republican Party as the party of the people.

But there's no appeasing the Swamp globalists. The billionaire class is impatient. They are solely focused on creating the trillionaire class and will not be denied.

As push is now coming to shove, DeSantis will have to clearly pick a side. There's no middle ground here.

You either work for the globalists and follow orders or you work for the people. If DeSantis sides with the people, in a nanosecond the globalists and their minions will turn on him with the exact same tactics they've been using on Trump for the past six years.

So, finally, it's on, out in the open for all to see. And long overdue.

The stakes could not be higher.

President Trump lost the election you are such a dummy he got over 95 million the other yo-yo got about 45 million the rest was fake you're a disgrace. Www.magapill.com

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Progressives got hammered on Election Day- but that was only the latest big defeat. What does this mean for Dems? Can Joe pivot? (spoiler-probably not)
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Liz have you not heard latest on the “russia collusion” “steele dossier” Fiona Hill???
Or are you a typical msm reporter?

President Trump lost the election you are such a dummy he got over 95 million the other yo-yo got about 45 million the rest was fake you're a disgrace. Www.magapill.com

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Joe Biden wanted to be an historic president- and he has done that. Worst ratings slide of any president since WWII.
He (or whoever is running WH) doesn’t care about voters’ top issues – instead Team Biden obsessing about climate change, gender and race.
No wonder he’s in trouble!
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Voters are worried about inflation, jobs, crime, education and our open border, while the Biden White House is laser-focused on climate change, transgender rights, racism and reducing inequality.

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The great days turned to very bad days in less than a year.
Congress needs a flip to GOP next year to stop the craziness

Climate change is important.
The GOP may not care about it now, but their children will.
He is trying to get an infrastructure bill through.
He has had issues with Afghanistan, but what else could he do
The people who are taking over Afghanistan were released by the previous administration.
I am sure that Biden is not perfect but he is better than Trump.

Your bias is ridiculous. Makes you a bad writer. Btw avg teacher pay is way above 31000. Sensationalize much?

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Duuuuuh President Trump lost the election you are such a dummy he got over 95 million the other yo-yo got about 45 million the rest was fake you're a disgrace. Www.magapill.com

worst ratings only from a side thats ignorant to the truth. the effects of coming off a pandemic with oil companies profitting off the pumps in order to pay their shareholders back from profits lost. inflation effects the entire world but of course your base doesnt pull their heads out their asses for one second to look around and use common sense. keep spreading bullshit and weakening our country til it no longer functions as a democracy….bc i see through your fake Christian patriotic pow wows. you are the opposite of ehat you claim and you are the definition of what you claim your rivals are. deflection, projection, hypocrisy. 3 words that sum you up

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