who is responsible for the situation our country finds itself in? From Steve Cruiser this morning, with a quick answer [1] to that question:
We heard so much from the lefties about what Putin could get away with while Trump was president yet nothing happened. He did, however, annex Crimea while The Lightbringer was in office and now he’s acting up again while Obama’s idiot legacy is in office.
My friends it’s no accident that Putin waited until there was a weak Democrat in the White House to play this game.
Of course it’s not just the Biden administration’s international bungling, it’s also domestic policy:
The way to deal with Putin of course is to shut off the flow of money for Russian oil by producing it here in the states. But that option is sacrificed on the altar of global warming. It doesn’t matter that everybody else is going to be getting their oil from everywhere else. Global warming only happens when oil from the United States is burned, right, Democrats?
Jeff Dunetz over at The Lid [2] points out that it’s not just oil but natural gas too.
The liberal media won’t admit it, but the reason Russian forces are entering Ukraine can be explained in two words—Joe Biden. In fact, thanks to Biden, the U.S. is paying for the Russian invasion. His energy policy of reducing American production, stopping the almost completed keystone pipelines, no drilling on federal lands, new regulation regarding oil and gas drilling, and much more spiked the price of energy. For example, in 2020 the price of natural gas was $4.36/1,000 cubic feet, 2021 prices averaged $9/1,000 cubic feet.
Before Biden became President, the U.S. was energy independent and an exporter of energy. The lower American production and removing Trump’s restrictions on the Nordstream natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany. His policies made other countries more reliant on Russian gas. Giving Putin leverage on other countries such as Germany and doubling the price. All that extra money went straight into Russia’s pockets. Those new profits helped Russia raise the funds to continue Putin’s dream of the greater Russia of the USSR.
On top of the higher prices and the increased dependence on Russian energy, the mishandling of the Afghan withdrawal and removing some of the Iran sanctions showed Biden to be a weak President. Putin is no idiot. All of Biden’s flawed policies and feeble foreign policy made the Russian president understand that if he was ever going to get Ukraine back in Russia’s clutches, this was it.
It would be easier, (being a far shorter list) if we were to study what the Biden administration has done correctly. You could list everything he’s done right, in one breath. In fact, about the only thing that the man can do correctly, involves licking an ice cream cone on command. Then again, I know of a number of dogs that can do that.
And those trucks are rumbling toward DC as we speak. Personally, I figure that Biden will make Fidel Castro’s kid look like a genius comparatively, but time will tell there.