BUMPED OFF BY BUNGLING BIDEN
Wouldn't it be nice if the Europeans had a way to get the fuel they need without depending on Putin?
What if I told you that was in the works, until Bungling Biden bumped it off?
Bungling Biden intended his legacy to be about tackling the "climate crisis".
On his very first day in office, bungling Biden canceled the Keystone XL pipeline project, which was to carry millions of gallons of oil from Canada to refineries in the United States. The executive order canceling Keystone also revoked oil and gas development at national wildlife monuments.
A few months later, bungling Biden lifted sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline planned to carry natural gas from Russia to Germany, and ultimately approved it.
Previous administrations opposed it as increasing German dependence on Russia, and because it would let Russia deprive Ukraine of revenue by circumventing existing gas-transit networks.
As of 2020, Russia supplied roughly 65% of Germany’s natural gas imports and 40% of European Union imported gas.
Italy, which imports some 90% of its gas, is also heavily dependent on Russia.
In the buildup to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, two of Europe’s largest economies – Germany and Italy – worked hard to weaken preemptive sanctions.
Germany refused to terminate the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
Even after Putin purported to recognize Ukrainian provinces as independent countries, Germany merely halted certifying the pipeline. But, it refused to commit to canceling it altogether.
Italy fought to limit threatened sanctions to a few narrow sectors – excluding energy in particular.
Even now, with Russian troops all over Ukraine, the E.U. continues to fight stronger sanctions like excluding Russia from the SWIFT banking system.
Now, let's cast our minds back a month, shall we?
A while ago, an accord between Israel, Greece, and Cyprus was reached whereby an underwater pipeline was planned to stretch 1,180 miles across the Mediterranean Sea, connecting Israeli gas to Cyprus and Greece, and on to Italy.
It was expected to cost about $7 billion, and would have carried 10 billion cubic meters of gas a year initially, with the goal of eventually doubling capacity.
Guess what bungling Biden did?
Citing "environmental concerns", bungling Biden withdrew US support for the EastMed Pipeline in January 2022.
As former defense secretary Robert Gates put it, bungling Biden has been “wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”
The upshot is that, despite threats of punishing and crippling sanctions, the U.S. and its allies have actually done little, except shoot themselves in the foot.
Now, Europe has to choose between freezing in the long winter, or acquiescing to Putin's depredations.
Thanks, bungling Biden, Putin loves you!
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/02/biden-killed-the-israel-europe-eastmed-gas-pipeline-hows-that-looking-now/
