{"id":256077,"date":"2021-05-22T01:48:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T22:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/what-does-vladimir-putin-have-on-joe-biden\/"},"modified":"2021-05-22T01:48:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T22:48:48","slug":"what-does-vladimir-putin-have-on-joe-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-does-vladimir-putin-have-on-joe-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"#What does Vladimir Putin have on Joe Biden?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#What does Vladimir Putin have on Joe Biden?<\/strong>”
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Only a few months ago, the Biden administration argued that Nord Stream 2, a proposed natural-gas pipeline running from Russia to Germany, was \u201ca bad deal\u201d that \u201cexposes Ukraine and Central Europe.\u201d White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki had noted at the time that any new pipeline carrying the fossil fuel on the continent \u201cgoes against Europe\u2019s own stated energy and security goals.\u201d<\/p>\n

This week, Axios reports that President Joe Biden is set to waive sanctions against a major company building the pipeline \u2014 as well as its CEO, Matthias Warnig, a former Stasi agent and a Putin, er, associate. Setting aside a debate over the usefulness of waivers, the muted reaction to the lifting of sanctions once again exposes that the Russian-collusion hysteria that enveloped the media<\/a> and political conversation for nearly five years was a contrived effort to spin a lie.<\/p>\n

The Democrats have shamelessly fluctuated on Russian policy. And it is not only that many of the same officials crafting Biden\u2019s foreign policy mocked Mitt Romney for warning about Russian geopolitical threats. Even before President Barack Obama asked Vladimir Putin\u2019s flunky Dmitry Medvedev to \u201ctransmit\u201d his promise \u201cto Vladimir\u201d about \u201cflexibility\u201d on missile defense, the United States had canceled the sale of American missile-defense systems to our allies in Poland and the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n

It was Obama who spent two years trying to kill the Magnitsky Act. It was Obama who allowed Russia to operate with impunity in Syria to protect the prospects of the Iran deal. It was Joe Biden, not Comrade Trump, who championed the \u201creset\u201d and capitulated to Russia on accession to the World Trade Organization.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Obama has made Russia\u2019s WTO membership a top priority for US-Russia relations in 2011,\u201d the White House explained.<\/p>\n

All of this was forgotten when the media decided that American democracy had been stolen by a smattering of Facebook ads and some Twitter bots. As this went on, the Trump administration opened up the sale of lethal weapons to Ukraine \u2014 including anti-tank missiles. It was President Donald Trump who reinstated sales of Patriot missile-defense systems to Eastern Europe and continued to impose sanctions and other measures. It was Trump who refused to extend a one-sided arms-control agreement. Biden is now seeking a five-year extension.<\/p>\n

Now, perhaps it\u2019s in the best interests of Germany to build a natural-gas pipeline and in our best interests to stay out of Europe\u2019s energy decisions. I tend to think so. If Germany is comfortable securing fuel from a Russian kleptocracy, who are we, a nation now willing to empower the theocratic oil-producing regime in Iran, to lecture it?<\/p>\n

But it shouldn\u2019t be lost on us that not only does Nord Stream 2 enrich and strengthen Putin\u2019s hold on power, it is also in direct contradiction to Biden\u2019s stated claim that the \u201cclimate crisis\u201d is a major factor in his administration\u2019s foreign-policy decisions. The pipeline is likely to critically undercut the ability of Germany, now in the middle of a nuclear phase-out, to meet Paris Agreement targets. Then again, that accord, which Biden rejoined in one of his first acts as president, also benefits Russia, which will simply ignore inconvenient carbon-emission goals.<\/p>\n

It is also difficult not to notice that news<\/a> of the waivers comes only a week after a cyberattack emanating from Russia shut down the massive Colonial Pipeline, resulting in shortages and gas lines in the eastern United States \u2014 for which Biden gave Putin absolution before any major investigation could possibly have been conducted. This is also the same president who shut down the construction of our own Keystone XL Pipeline, costing thousands of jobs.<\/p>\n

The waivers were almost certainly meant to ease tensions in advance of this week\u2019s meeting in Iceland between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov. Yet reading news coverage in the context of the past five years of Russia mania is something of a surreal experience. Trump, supposedly a Russian asset since 1987, must have been a supreme disapp<\/a>ointment to the Kremlin.<\/p>\n

It is without question that any such allowance by Trump would have been met with a frenzied round of bellowing from the conspiracists who still populate cable-news networks. They would have wondered aloud what kind of kompromat <\/em>Putin had on Trump. Biden has said a lot of scathing things about Putin \u2014 calling him \u201cevil\u201d and \u201ca killer\u201d (true and true) \u2014 but there is no evidence that his policies are any tougher on Russia than Trump\u2019s. In many ways, in fact, they seem less so.<\/p>\n

Twitter: @DavidHarsanyi<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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