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Joe Biden Is a Scam Artist – Part 1: Russia & Ukraine

Joe Biden Is a Scam Artist – Part 1: Russia & Ukraine  

President Biden Is a Scam Artist. Yeah, politicians often exaggerate. Yes, many politicians flat out lie. And there’s also no doubt that many politicians are posers (you know the type that campaign one way to get elected and then vote like a totally different person once elected). These realities are commonplace in politics. What isn’t quite so common is someone who’s a flat-out fraud. The George Santos’ of the world who slip through tend to get exposed rather quickly. That makes it that much more remarkable that a flat-out fraud like Joe Biden has not only survived a political career that spans over a decade longer than the average American has been alive, but that he remains as President of the United States. No, this isn’t a story about the dozens of shell companies used to funnel tens of millions of dollars from at least three corrupt foreign business interests by the Biden Crime Family. And no this isn’t about how Joe’s son goes from being a degenerate crackhead with crack whores, to a degenerate crackhead with crack whores who suddenly and miraculously became an international energy mogul. One who landed a job on the board of a corrupt Ukrainian energy company and subsequently with a Chinese Communist controlled energy company. No, this story isn’t about how as Vice President; Joe Biden demanded the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor investigating the corrupt energy company that his son was being paid huge money to “advise” as a member of the board of directors. No, this isn’t even about how the crackhead with crack whores turned international energy mogul instantly and seemingly miraculously became a world-renowned artist that collectors suddenly felt compelled to throw millions of dollars at in purchasing his instantly legendary works. No, the reason I’ve mentioned all of that is because it has been obvious for some time that Joe Biden, as head of the Biden Crime Family, has been a fraud.  

We knew about all of that without any whistleblowers, without any investigations, without any other intel other than simply being informed humans paying attention to what has happened with our current president and former vice president, and his son. That’s worth remembering as the corrupt Washington establishment would now have you think that the arrest of former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, who has now been arrested twice on the same charges, potentially lying to the FBI about the Biden’s, somehow or another makes all the rest of the stuff we knew about them, without him, untrue – including importantly the firing of the Ukrainian processor – which don’t forget Joe Biden is on the record, at the Council on Foreign Relations, publicly having bragged about after his time as vice president. But no, selling out this country for personal interests isn’t the reason I’m referring to President Biden as a scam artist today – though it is part of his voluminous portfolio. It’s due to two new developments on two other foreign fronts. The border and Russia where there’s more in common than you may think. Let’s start with Russia. 

It’s easy to forget where the Biden-Russian relationship as president first started. With President Biden ending the Trump-era sanctions against Russia preventing use the Nord Steam 2 pipeline, which at the time gave Putin exactly what he wanted. Then, in the winter of 2022 when it was clear Russia was planning an invasion of Ukraine what did Biden tell us? That he’d threaten Putin with “crippling sanctions” should he launch the invasion. And then on February 22nd as the invasion began, he unleashed those so-called crippling sanctions. How’d that one work out? Then, two days, later on February 24th as the invasion of Ukraine had created a humanitarian crisis Biden said this: Today, I’m authorizing additional strong sanctions and new limitations on what can be exported to Russia. 

This is going to impose severe costs on the Russian economy, both immediately and over time. We have purposefully designed these sanctions to maximize the long-term impact on Russia and to minimize the impact on the United States and our Allies. Boy that obviously did the trick right? And then in September of 2022, at about the time the status quo phase of the war had settled in, President Biden really decided to drop the hammer on Russia. Quoting El Presidente... America and its allies are not going to be intimidated by Putin and his reckless words and threats. And with that he said... The United States, together with our Allies and partners, are announcing new sanctions today. These sanctions will impose costs on individuals and entities — inside and outside of Russia — that provide political or economic support to illegal attempts to change the status of Ukrainian territory. We will rally the international community to both denounce these moves and to hold Russia accountable. Man, remember how well that worked? You know when Putin apologized for the Ukrainian invasion and retreated the invading forces back to Mother Russia? Right. So, enter into the conversation what Joe Biden announced on Friday. Quoting the official White House statement from President Biden. I am announcing more than 500 new sanctions against Russia for its ongoing war of conquest on Ukraine and for the death of Aleksey Navalny, who was a courageous anti-corruption activist and Putin’s fiercest opposition leader. Now, let me ask you. Why, if the original goal was to stop the invasion of Ukraine, wouldn’t President Biden have issued all of these sanctions back then? Why, if the goal of ‘Ole Joe was to end the war in Ukraine would he have waited a year and a half to issue new sanctions? Now you put yourself in his position. If your goal was truly to stop Putin... If your goal was truly to end the Ukrainian war... Would you not have gone to your advisors two years ago to ask them to draw up every possible sanction against Russia that could exist, issue the order and then demand a throwing in of the kitchen sink as well? But wait there’s more. Because by now you know full well that not one of Biden’s symbolic 500 new sanctions will do anything thing of consequence...consider this. Do you know what Joe Biden still has never really sanctioned? Russian energy. Do you know what Russia has never been? Richer. And did you know that you’re often paying for it? See here’s how the scam works.  

Biden prevented direct importing of oil into the United States from Russia so that he could say he did so. What has he never sanctioned? Russian energy products into the United States – nor has he prevented our trading partners from conducting business with them. What really goes on here? Enter CNN. Last week CNN produced the story that spells it out well – credit to them. The headline: The Kremlin has never been richer – thanks to a US strategic partner. Quoting the CNN story: Russia is entering its third year of war in Ukraine with an unprecedented amount of cash in government coffers, bolstered by a record $37 billion of crude oil sales to India last year, according to new analysis, which concludes that some of the crude was refined by India and then exported to the United States as oil products worth more than $1 billion. This flow of payments, ultimately to Moscow’s benefit, comes from India increasing its purchases of Russian crude by over 13 times its pre-war amounts, according to the analysis by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), exclusively shared with CNN. Russian crude sales to India are not subject to sanctions and are entirely legitimate. The net impact of India’s crude purchases has been to weaken the pinch Russian President Vladimir Putin feels from oil sanctions. Russia’s federal revenues ballooned to a record $320 billion in 2023 and are set to rise further still. Roughly a third of the money was spent on the war in Ukraine last year, according to some analysts, and a greater proportion still is set to finance the conflict in 2024. The funds at the Kremlin’s disposal put Moscow in a better position to sustain a lengthy war than Kyiv. Things that make you go hmm. All Biden would have to do is enact sanctions against India for partnering with Russia to end this. Even then Biden could sanction refined Russian energy products entering the United States, but he doesn’t.  

It was on March 4th, 2022, in my story entitled: Is the US Really Still Importing Russian Oil? - I said this: As of today, the Biden Administration has not placed any sanctions on the importing of Russian energy. That means importing of Russian oil remains legal in the United States and shipments continue to arrive daily. In fact, the only thing President Biden has done since becoming president is dramatically raise the influence of Russia over the energy markets and specifically to make the US more reliant on Russian energy. Under the Trump administration, Russia wasn’t even a top ten energy trader with the US. Under the Biden administration petroleum imports into the United States have risen by greater than 400%. According to the most recent government reporting – Russia is currently the 3rd leading supplier of US energy – having recently passed Saudi Arabi for that distinction. The reason this has happened is due to Biden’s week one executive orders limiting domestic energy production and distribution. With US production and distribution being limited by the Biden administration, but with demand for energy growing, the energy must come from somewhere. There aren’t many options around the world to replace that energy. Outside the US, the biggest bloc is OPEC. However, the cartel collectively regulates the amount of energy they’ll produce at any time. The OPEC countries made clear as recently as this week they’re thrilled with the highest price for oil in over a decade when they decided not to increase production levels – knowing that’d help lower prices. If the world’s top producer, the United States, is inhibited by its own government and if the OPEC nations have voted to not increase supply – where's that energy coming from? Russia has been and is the biggest beneficiary of the restrictive policy. All that’s changed since that policy was in place two years ago – is that Russia now funnels its oil products through India.  

Biden ended US energy independence making Americans poorer and Russia richer with you literally buying Russian oil and financing their war without even realizing it. Biden virtue signals with sanctions but never issues ones that really matter. And what does he want from you? More money for the war in Ukraine. There are two sides to stories and one side to facts. Does anyone else find it at least a little curious that given the established facts, Biden wants to continue to funnel tens of billions of your tax dollars into Ukraine? The very country where his crackhead son was paid millions of dollars by a corrupt energy company. They very country where Biden had oversight as vice president. The very country where he had an anti-corruption prosecutor fired over the threat of losing US foreign aid while vice president. I’m sure it’s all a coincidence...or in the event it’s not...Joe Biden is a scam artist. But then there’s the border...I will cover that in part two of this series tomorrow. 


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