With pressure mounting in Congress, 79-year-old President Joe Biden reluctantly banned 700,000 barrels a day of Russia oil, bound to drive up prices and create shortages in supply chains. “The American people will deal another powerful blow to Putin’s war machine,” Biden said, speaking from the White House Roosevelt Room. “Americans have rallied to support the Ukrainian people and made it clear we will not be part of subsidizing Putin’s war,” Biden said, grossly overstating the reality of outrageously overpriced pump prices around the country, hurting ordinary consumers, bound to plunge the nation into recession. Biden’s gung ho for financing the Ukraine War, asking Congress for $10 billion, assuring that the war goes on indefinitely, until either Ukraine or Russia blinks. But Biden gloating about “dealing another powerful blow to Putin’s war machine,” tells the real story.
When Biden asked Congress for $10 billion to fund Ukraine’s military response to the war, it signaled that Biden was willing to pay Ukrainians to fight a U.S. proxy war against the Russian Federation. Biden ultimately looks to topple Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin got wind of Biden’s ambitions early on in his presidency when he and 59-year-old Secretary of State Antony Blinken demanded that Putin release 44-year-old Russian dissident Alexi Navalny from prison. Navalny ran a clandestine organization designed to overthrow the Kremlin-backed Russian government. Can you imagine if anyone in the U.S. ran such an organization? Only 75-year-old former President Donald Trump has, in the U.S., been treated by the House Select committee like Navalny. Every communication made by Biden about the Ukraine War emphasizes Putin’s attack was “unprovoked and unjustified.”
Biden repeats the same talking points about how Putin’s attack on Ukraine was “unprovoked and unjustified.” But to Putin, Ukraine over the last three years since Zelensky took office, has sought NATO membership. Denied membership wisely by NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, Zelensky decided to go in the back door, letting the U.S. and NATO arm Ukraine to the teeth. When Putin raised objections, Biden and Zelensky told Putin to mind his own business. Putin served notice to Biden since their June 16, 2021 Geneva summit, that Russia would have to respond if Ukraine continue to receive offensive and defensive weapons. Six months later, Putin told Biden that if he wasn’t willing to work out a new security arrangement in Ukraine and Eastern Europe, then he’d take “military-technical measures,” meaning he would demilitarize the Ukrainian nation.
So when Biden continues to repeat the same rubbish that the war was “unprovoked and unjustified,” it was the White House found no acceptable excuse. Certainly Putin found a reason to invade Ukraine after repeated attempts to resolve security concerns diplomatically, all of which were ignored by Biden. What’s abundantly clear is that Biden now agreed to pay $10 billion to Ukraine to fight a U.S. proxy war against the Russian Federation. “This is a step we are taking to inflict further pain on Putin,” Biden said, an inappropriate public remark. “But there will be costs her in the United States,” Biden admitted, namely, the double-digit inflation in practically every household commodity, certainly the price of gasoline. U.S. consumers can take only so much economic hardship before the country lapses into recession. Biden’s proxy war against Russia costs the country dearly.
Biden gives away his culpability in pushing Putin to the breaking point by stating in every public remark that Putin’s war is “unprovoked and unjustified.” While there’s no excuse for war, the Ukraine War is a compelling example of diplomatic failure. Biden had months to work on new security arrangement with Putin telling him all of Putin’s requests for added security were “non-starters.” When it comes to today’s ban on Russian oil, the effects on the U.S. consumers will be disastrous. No one in Europe has committed to ending dependence on Russian oil, currently buying about 30% from the Russian Federation. U.S. only imports about 10% of 700,000 barrels of Russian oil. Since taking office, Biden has unraveled former President Donald Trump’s commitment to domestic energy production, all a commitment to the Green New Deal. Now U.S. consumers are left holding the bag.
When you look at all of Biden’s belligerent rhetoric toward Putin, it exposes that the White House authorized Ukraine to fight a $10 billion proxy war against the Russian Federation. Biden acts like it’s his war, not Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky who said today that Ukraine would fight to the last drop of blood. Zelensky’s remarks do not reflect a leader interested in saving innocent civilian life, while he now prosecutes Biden’s proxy war against Putin. No other European or Asia country has invested anything close to the $10 billion from U.S. taxpayers. Biden repeats daily that the Ukraine war was “unprovoked and unjustified,” is the perfect excuse to deny Zelensky’s three years of provocations and Biden’s refusal to meet with Putin to work out new security arrangements. When you look at the record, Biden reject all of Putin’s overtures to work out a diplomatic solution.
