marvin martian
Diamond Member
BIG payday for Hunter and "the big guy" here.
I wonder how many "paintings" Putin is buying?
townhall.com
On Wednesday, roughly a week after German Chancellor Angela Merkel left Washington, D.C., the U.S. and Germany issued a joint statement signing off on the completion of Nord Stream 2. The Biden administration's approval of Nord Stream 2 marks the culmination of a stunning about-face. Biden himself has often called Putin a "KGB thug." White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki asserted just last month that the administration "continues to believe that Nord Stream 2 is a bad deal for Europe." State Department Spokesman Ned Price on Tuesday -- literally one day before the Biden/Merkel joint statement -- blasted the pipeline as a "Kremlin geopolitical project that is intended to expand Russia's influence over Europe's energy resources and to circumvent Ukraine."
Merkel is undoubtedly happy with this outcome, and there is no one happier than Putin himself. But America's core Central and Eastern European allies, such as the Visegrad Group nations of Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia, are undoubtedly livid at what they rightly view as a destructive and self-defeating kowtow to Moscow and Berlin. In May, I interviewed Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in Warsaw for Newsweek, and there was perhaps no issue on which he was more passionate than he was on the correctness of Trump's unwavering anti-Nord Stream 2 stance and the wrongness of Biden's gratuitous flip-flop. Even more important, the deal hurts U.S. natural gas exporters, effectively depriving them of access to the key European market. Astoundingly, Biden's greenlighting of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline comes on the heels of his lamentable decision to revoke the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline here at home.
I wonder how many "paintings" Putin is buying?
Joe Biden Has Given Vladimir Putin a Huge Win on the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline
For years, Democrats and their cable news echo chamber conjured up and broadly disseminated the most lurid and patently ludicrous rumors about former President Donald Trump being a corrupted and (literally) compromised agent of Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin.
townhall.com
On Wednesday, roughly a week after German Chancellor Angela Merkel left Washington, D.C., the U.S. and Germany issued a joint statement signing off on the completion of Nord Stream 2. The Biden administration's approval of Nord Stream 2 marks the culmination of a stunning about-face. Biden himself has often called Putin a "KGB thug." White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki asserted just last month that the administration "continues to believe that Nord Stream 2 is a bad deal for Europe." State Department Spokesman Ned Price on Tuesday -- literally one day before the Biden/Merkel joint statement -- blasted the pipeline as a "Kremlin geopolitical project that is intended to expand Russia's influence over Europe's energy resources and to circumvent Ukraine."
Merkel is undoubtedly happy with this outcome, and there is no one happier than Putin himself. But America's core Central and Eastern European allies, such as the Visegrad Group nations of Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia, are undoubtedly livid at what they rightly view as a destructive and self-defeating kowtow to Moscow and Berlin. In May, I interviewed Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in Warsaw for Newsweek, and there was perhaps no issue on which he was more passionate than he was on the correctness of Trump's unwavering anti-Nord Stream 2 stance and the wrongness of Biden's gratuitous flip-flop. Even more important, the deal hurts U.S. natural gas exporters, effectively depriving them of access to the key European market. Astoundingly, Biden's greenlighting of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline comes on the heels of his lamentable decision to revoke the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline here at home.
