President Biden on Tuesday said it is “not true” that his administration is holding back domestic energy production, while warning that the United States’ ban of Russian oil imports will “cost” American families, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues.
Biden
on Tuesday warned that gas prices will “go up further” from their
current record levels, and he reiterated his support for government
spending on renewable energy sources and criticizing the oil and gas
industry for not taking full advantage of drilling opportunities in the
U.S.
Americans are experiencing the highest gas prices
since the 2008 financial crisis, with the national gas price average
reaching more than $4 per gallon – the highest average to date,
according to AAA.
“The decision today is not without cost here at home,” Biden warned.
“Putin’s war is already hurting American families at the gas pump since
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Op-ed:
Ukraine's Hell...Only One Solution Is
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By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor /
Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio
...Now seeing himself as the
self-appointed Czar of all Russia, Putin is a master of turning any
perceived weakness shown by others into an opportunity to bolster
both himself and "Mother Russia." And so he waited out Trump to seize the
opportunity that a weak Joe Biden easily afforded him. And know that
Putin has never hidden his true political agenda...an agenda that
includes his stopping American dominance over global affairs... what
he calls a “unipolar world.” And
Putin truly believes that America wants to expand NATO to
Russia's borders forgetting that what he's now doing actually sees
Russia on NATO's borders. But does he care...of course not for
Vladimir Putin sees himself as the incarnate of Hitler's supposed
military genius minus the mass exterminations, the ovens, and the
camps...
So, the question is can Vladimir Putin
truly be stopped?
Did You Catch the White House Explanation for Buying Oil From Hostile Countries?
Katie Pavlich / Townhall Tipsheet
Speaking to reporters at the White House Monday afternoon, Press
Secretary Jen Psaki was asked to explain why the Biden administration
plans to purchase oil from hostile foreign countries with abusive human
rights records. Psaki then justified the importation of Russian oil despite President
Vladimir Putin’s ongoing slaughter of civilians in Ukraine.
Over the weekend the State Department deployed a number of diplomats
to Venezuela and are considering lifting sanctions on the country in
order to purchase oil and gas. For years Russia has helped Venezuela
evade U.S. sanctions and remains a close ally to the country. The
administration is also entertaining the idea of buying Iranian
oil. Meanwhile, the White House has no plans to restart the Keystone XL
pipeline and continues to claim domestic producers aren’t taking advantage of capacity.
'I'm Not Afraid of Anyone': Ukrainian President Defiantly Shares His Location as Russian Attacks Continue
Landon Mion / Townhall Tipsheet
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy disclosed his location in
Kyiv on Monday during a video posted to social media and pledged not to
leave the nation's capital city.
"On Bankova Street," he said. "Not hiding, and I'm not afraid of anyone." Bankova Street is where the presidential offices are located.
Zelenskyy
defiantly pointed his camera out the window to show the Gorodetsky
House, which is located across the street from his offices, and to show
that it is nighttime in Kyiv.
He said that he would be "staying in
Kyiv" despite Russia's continued attacks on the city and having already
survived three assassination attempts since the war started roughly two
weeks ago.
"I'm here," the Ukrainian president said.
Last week, Ukrainian officials said
two Chechen death squads looking to take out Zelenskyy had been
"neutralized" after Russian security forces sympathetic to Ukraine
provided intelligence to Ukrainian officials. Read more, see tweet and video here.
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Monday, March 7, 2022
Op-ed:
Ukraine's Hell...Only One Solution Is
Possible
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor /
Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio
“We
now have war in Europe on a scale and of a type we thought belonged
to history.” -
NATO
Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg
The war started by Russia against the
independent nation of Ukraine has given birth to both heroes and
villains...some obvious, some preferring to stay in the shadows. But
one thing I do know is that Ukraine's President Volodymir Zelensky is
a man who is the epitome of the word “hero” and it's not
just for his vowing to stand and fight for Ukraine even when offered
a way out, but this one man...a man of courage and fortitude...has
almost single-handily rallied the free world against Vladimir Putin
whose plans to rebuild the Russian Empire will, I believe, end in
abysmal failure.
So as I began writing this article on
the fifth day of Russia's war on Ukraine, the first round of
cease-fire talks between Ukrainian and Russian delegations had
wrapped up and, as expected, failed to produce anything but the
promise to continue talks “in the near future.” And it
appeared to me that those first talks were but a false flag being
raised, because while those very talks were ongoing Russian troops
were busy shelling what they knew was a residential neighborhood in
the eastern city of Kharkiv, killing at least ten Ukrainian
civilians, thus showing the world collateral damage be damned.
But last week did hold a few positive
surprises as the Russian economy entered free-fall as international
sanctions started taking effect, with the rouble dropping to its
lowest level ever. Also, the historically neutral nation of
Switzerland considered the Ukrainian situation so dire that even they
took sides with Ukraine against Russia by joining in the European
Union's (EU's) sanctions against Russian assets, while Finland and
Sweden...both previously not taking sides...are seriously considering
joining both the EU and NATO as Russian aggression continues
unabated. In fact, the EU announced,
for the first time in its history, that they will directly send not
only funds to Ukraine for weapons, but will send them much needed
fighter jets as well.
Last week also saw President
Zelensky signing an emergency request for Ukraine to
immediately be admitted to the EU under a so-called "new
special procedure," while
not saying what this procedure involves. However, the EU did approve
Ukraine's application to join the organization, thus solidifying
their promise of sending more military weapons and humanitarian aid
to the now war torn country. And fearing for his country's safety,
Eugen Caras, Moldova's ambassador to the U.S., is also considering
asking to join both the EU and NATO no matter that Moldova has a
neutrality provision written into its constitution. And why...because a recently surfaced video shows Putin's puppet Alexander
Lukashenko, Belarus' president, standing in front of a map that
appears to suggest that the Moldovan breakaway state of Transnistria
is the next target for invasion.
Also during the week we also saw Vasily
Nebenzya. the Russian ambassador to the UN, telling lie after lie about
genocide being committed against the Russian nationals living in Ukraine,
at the same time that Russian “cluster munitions”...what's known as “vacuum bombs”... were,
on Putin's direct orders, being deliberately dropped on other populated civilian areas in Ukraine's
east in addition to those that had already targeted the city of Kharkiv. And while Putin
knows that said bombs have been outlawed by the Geneva Convention,
coupled with the fact of his having already put his country's nuclear
forces on “high alert,” shows
the world that he cares nothing about the Geneva Convention let alone
what the world thinks about him or his agenda. More on that in a
bit.
So, as
last week progressed, we learned that Ukraine's armed forces stopped
an assassination attempt against Zelensky. It seems that a
unit of elite Chechen special forces, known as Kadyrovites, were
involved in a plot to “eliminate” Ukraine's leader, but
thankfully the only ones “eliminated” were the assassins
themselves. However, Zelensky's life is still in great danger as 400
members of the so-called “Wagner
Group”...a group of Russian
paid mercenaries...bloodthristy killers supposedly at Putin's beck
and call...were given the assignment to “decapitate
Zelensky’s government” and
prepare the ground for Moscow to take control.
Given a list of 23
Ukrainians Putin targeted for assassination, with Zelensky topping
said list, the Klitschko brothers are number two. And these two
brothers...Vitali and Wladmir... both world class boxing
champions...are a personal thorn in Putin's side for their now
deceased father was a Soviet loyalist, a high ranking Russian
military commander who was a hero of sorts at Chernobyl, and a
personal friend of Putin. And yet both sons are now actively,
vocally, and publicly fighting for Ukraine. The ultimate slap in the
face to a man whose ego thrives on loyalty to himself
and to "Mother Russia."
Then
on Wednesday, in a rare emergency “special session,”
China officially said “no”
to sanctioning Russia while Wang Webin, spokesman for China’s
Foreign Ministry, stated China would continue “normal
trade cooperation” with Russia
“in the spirit of mutual respect, equality and mutual
benefit,” thusdirectly going
against China's repeated claims that it respects a state’s
sovereignty.Also,
China abstained during a UN General Assembly vote...a nonbinding
resolution (a symbolic vote) which passed with 141 “ayes”...that
called for Russia to “halt its war on Ukraine” and
withdraw its military forces. Only five nations opposed the
resolution...Russia of course, Belarus, Eritrea, North Korea, and
Syria...all nations within Putin's sphere of influence. But a big surprise was when Cuba, a staunch ally of Russia, abstained as well.
Also,
by
mid-week Russia claimed control of the southern port city of Kherson
with Russian troops seen in the city's center. And as street battles continued on in Kharkiv, Kyiv braced itself for a
Russian ground assault now that the stalled 40-mile long caravan of
men, munitions, and assault equipment started slowly moving
forward again with the end game being to circle Kyiv, move in, and
take over the city.
And even though on Thursday the second
round of ceasefire talks failed, Russia agreed not to fire on
civilian evacuees. But with no guarantee that will hold true, and
with the eyes of the world
continuing to rightfully vilify Putin for his invasion of Ukraine,
Putin continued to not only challenge current world order by
attempting to change national borders, but he did so via his
committing atrocities that equate to a possible charge of
“war crimes”
being leveled against both he and his generals. How so? According to
the Geneva Conventions of 1949, war crimes include the willful
killing and extensive destruction of property “not
justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and
wantonly.” And how could Putin's actions be anything less than criminal as
he invaded a country who was not at war with Russia nor posed any
threat to Russia.
And
Ukraine's hell week also saw Russian forces seizing Ukraine's
Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest of Europe's nuclear
plants. Hit by Russian shelling early Friday morning, a
fire broke out in a parking lot near one of plant's six reactors, but
Ukrainian authorities said the safety of the reactors had not been
compromised. However, if the fighting continues it could “interrupt”
power to the plant forcing the use of less dependable diesel
generators to operate needed cooling systems. And so all of Europe is
now on alert for Chernobyl did what it did with but its one reactor
melting down, imagine if all six of Zaporizhzhia's were breached. Simply, half of Europe and even
parts of Russia would become uninhabitable for decades to come.
So with Friday's decision by NATO not to place a "no-fly-zone" over Ukraine, Russian violence is escalating along with reports that Putin plans to
hold public executions of dissidents and captured Ukraine fighters
alike. And with protests against Russia continuing worldwide, including in
parts of Russia itself, Putin has ordered a media blackout throughout his country for fear that the truth of atrocities being committed against Ukraine in Russia's name would not sit well with the Russian people.
And with his still alluding to Russian nuclear capabilities, world leaders and foreign policy experts now fear
that Vladimir Putin might be both paranoid and delusional for only a “madman”...a “sociopath”...would put his nation’s nuclear
forces on alert after invading a neighboring country by falsely
claiming he did so in “self-defense.” And while I understand why some
now question Putin's sanity itself, I instead see him as somewhat
successfully having played the world via actions we should have seen
coming but didn't. For months Putin has left a trail of clues we
should have picked up on but didn't as we instead had our and the
world's eyes focused on what were cleverly crafted diversionary
tactics...and here, I believe, enters China and Covid-19, topped
off with China's refusal to sanction or even condemn Russia's actions, with
the reasons for doing so hiding in obviously plain sight.
Also, it must be remembered that Vladimir Putin remains a
former KGB official who specialized in killing, and is a man who has
continuously violated international law and committed human rights
violations, just ask those living in Chechnya and Georgia. And his reason
for doing so was then as it is now with Ukraine, in that Putin claims he
only sent in troops to protect Russians residing in countries who wished to be
“re-united with the motherland.” But it's unfortunate that until
now, he has gotten away with it, while at the same time masking his
true intentions of rebuilding the all encompassing Russian Empire of
old. Restoring Russian dominance over former Soviet satellite states,
courtesy of negating Ukraine as a sovereign nation via his claim that
Ukraine is linked “geographically, historically, and culturally”to
“Mother Russia” is just his first step in not only empire building but
in hoped for Russian world domination
Now seeing himself as the
self-appointed Czar of all Russia, Putin is a master of turning any
perceived weakness shown by others into an opportunity to bolster
both himself and "Mother Russia." And so he waited out Trump to seize the
opportunity that a weak Joe Biden easily afforded him. And know that
Putin has never hidden his true political agenda...an agenda that
includes his stopping American dominance over global affairs... what
he calls a “unipolar world.” And
Putin truly believes that America wants to expand NATO to
Russia's borders forgetting that what he's now doing actually sees
Russia on NATO's borders. But does he care...of course not for
Vladimir Putin sees himself as the incarnate of Hitler's supposed
military genius minus the mass exterminations, the ovens, and the
camps.
So, the question is can Vladimir Putin
truly be stopped?
Yes he can be, but only by literally
taking him out. And whether some like it or not the truth is
that Vladimir Putin must die as well as those in
his inner circle...as in loyalists to Putin himself or to another just like him or worse...and to their goal
of Russian world domination. And it must be done post-haste either by
someone or even a group of someones in the Russian military who know the
wrongs being committed in Russia's name, or by a rogue agent willing
to risk his or her own life so that not only will Ukraine's hell finally be over, but so the Russian people themselves can be free of communist dictatorial rule. Remember,
communism has proven to be but a failed political and economic system originally put into
place to bolster the misguided concept of "dictatorship of the proletariat."
So now as I end this article it's day 12 of Russia's war on Ukraine, and it ends with Russia's military having shelled both a second Ukraine nuclear power plant as well as buses full of civilians trying to flee the outskirts of Kyiv. And with, to date, 1.5 million Ukrainians having become refugees while thousands on both sides lay dead, know that even if Putin wins said war it does
not necessarily mean he will ever be able to keep what passes in the end for
peace. Simply, if Vladimir Putin is not out of the picture the
words of Albert Einstein can indeed come back to haunt for after
Putin's initiated war ends...a war that could easily turn into a
nuclear driven WW III...the next war will indeed be fought with
“sticks and stones.” Case
closed.
************************************************************************************* For more political commentary please visit myRIGHT SIDE PATRIOTSpartner Craig Andresen's blog The National Patriot to read his latest article, The Cause, Effect, and Ripple Effects of Globalism.
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President Biden on Tuesday said it is “not true” that his administration is holding back domestic energy production, while warning that the United States’ ban of Russian oil imports will “cost” American families, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues.
