Biden energy policies enabled Putin aggression
Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), the chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, slammed President Joe Biden during an interview on Sunday morning for his weakness in dealing with Russian aggression in Eastern Europe.
Barrasso’s remarks come as U.S. officials believe that Russia may launch an invasion into Ukraine at any time as they have amassed approximately 100,000 soldiers near the Ukrainian border.
“We need to sanction Russia before an invasion, not afterwards,” Barrasso told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo. “And here’s the reason, let’s put this into perspective, Vladimir Putin is like the big bad wolf. He is huffing and he is puffing, and he has the capacity, basically to blow Ukraine down. He’s accountable to no one. And he views our President Joe Biden as weak and ineffective. We need to put in sanctions now so Putin will see just what pain he will suffer if he does invade, and they have to hit him militarily, as well as economically. From a military standpoint, we need to make sure now that Ukraine has all the weapons that they need to defend themselves. We know what they’ve asked for anti tank, anti aircraft instruments.”
“The biggest sledgehammer we have, of course, is energy and the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, but this is the area, Maria, that Joe Biden has been the weakest because he has already approved that pipeline months ago,” Barrasso continued, later adding, “Germany’s saying they’re delaying the approval of the pipeline for the next six months, I want to permanently stop that pipeline. You know that Vladimir Putin very effectively uses energy as a weapon. He uses it against other countries, he uses it to fund his military. And Joe Biden has played right into his hands by killing the Keystone XL pipeline in this country, and making it harder for us to use the energy we have in America right now.”
Barrasso concluded by saying that Americans having to pay high prices for energy has been “a jackpot for Vladimir Putin who’s using all of this extra money as his cash cow to fund his aggression.”
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It is something I have been saying for some time. It is good to see that some in Washington are catching on to how Biden's energy policies shave facilitated Russian aggression and endangered Europe while hurting US consumers.
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