The situation with Russia invading Ukraine seems to have caused the “expert” Alexander Vindman to melt down. He tried to blame Donald Trump, and then blamed Fox for Vladimir Putin’s invasion. If that weren’t unhinged enough, now he’s completely gone over the slide.
Vindman now blames the Republican Party, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of the R-GA specifically for the invasion.
Nope. It’s because you and your pro-Putin party encouraged Putin to invade, by cheerleading him. Even worse, your support for Putin’s invasion encouraged him to cheerleading you. @POTUS efforts to signal punishing costs… you undermined U.S. efforts deter the war. Your blood is on your hands. American citizens won’t forget. https://t.co/kxmkKJDmD0
— Alexander S. Vindman (@AVindman) March 6, 2022
Exactly how are Greene and the Republicans supposed to be responsible for Putin invading on Joe Biden’s watch?
Let’s review — not that Vindman cares about facts.
Since his election, Joe Biden’s actions have been largely in support of Vladimir Putin. Biden lifted sanctions against Nord Stream 2. This was something that the U.S. sought to stop for many years. They knew it would harm Ukraine and help Russia, as well as give the EU a greater hold on their energy resources. Trump was threatening to impose sanctions on the country to stop it. He had also warned Germany about the risk of that happening and told them to get rid of the cord.
Biden cut also our ability to produce energy. As recently as last week, he still made harmful decisions in this regard.
Just last week, his administration put new restrictions on building liquefied-natural-gas terminals in the United States, which are needed to liquefy our abundant (and clean) natural gas and place it in tankers to be shipped to Europe and the rest of the world. Our domestic production has been lowered by the cancellation of keystone XL oil and natural gas pipelines and gas drilling permits in Alaska and Texas, as well as other oil-rich states.
Compare the peak oil-production months under President Donald Trump’s energy-independence policies to the latest production numbers under Biden: The Energy Information Administration’s data show that the United States is producing roughly 1.2 million fewer barrels oil per day.
Our production is not increasing, but this also helps Russia. This, we report, is one reason Russia has allegedly supported some environmentalist measures.
As Russia was deploying thousands of soldiers at the border, Sen. Ted Cruz (R.TX), led the GOP to impose sanctions. These could have been influenced by Russia. He proposed to reimpose the sanctions against Nord Stream 2. Not only did Biden personally fight against it, the Democrats even used the filibuster rule to prevent it from being passed, despite the fact they had been attacking the filibuster, falsely calling it “Jim Crow.”
Then Biden signaled to Putin that a “minor incursion” might not precipitate a full response from the U.S. in terms of action. He also pulled all troops off the table. We saw further movement from Putin after this.
But the administration even then — even with Biden himself then claiming an attack was coming — refused to put any sanctions on Putin or Russia before the invasion, even though Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was pleading for it, saying what good would it be after the invasion?
Democrats control the White House as well as Congress. Yet Vindman would still like to try to blame Republicans for Putin attacking on Biden’s watch. There’s a reason Putin attacked on Biden’s watch, just like there was a reason Putin did while Barack Obama was in office.
So no, Vindman, Republicans didn’t stop Biden’s “efforts to signal punishing costs” — Biden fought Republican and Ukrainian efforts to impose sanctions before the invasion, right down the line. It’s troubling that you had someone like this in any national security position. But it’s not just Vindman pushing this kind of unhinged talk; it’s all over liberal Twitter, trying to somehow blame Republicans for what happens under Biden.
But Americans understand the truth, which is why, as I reported, a recent poll showed Americans believe the invasion wouldn’t have happened under Trump and they think Putin moved because he believed Biden was weak.
So yes, Americans will remember how we got here and they’re laying blame on Biden for it. Vindman might have some self-awareness if he had. He would probably look at the Democrats and their role in making us so inefficient and weak in office. It’s not only grievously harmed us, but it’s harming the world.
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