Senator Josh Hawley said no wonder Vladimir Putin feels encouraged to attack Ukraine because President Biden has “shut down” America’s energy production and is green Russia‘s.
‘He [Biden] “It stops American energy production and gives the green light to Russian energy production.” republican told the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando on Thursday.
“Is it weird, is it weird that Vladimir Putin feels encouraged to do what the hell he wants to do?”
The senator called for Biden to resign.
After taking office, Biden closed US energy projects such as the Keystone gas pipeline while lifting sanctions on the Nord Stream II gas pipeline, which carries gas from Russia to Germany.
At the time, Biden lifted sanctions as a diplomatic service to Germany, arguing that the pipeline was already 98% complete anyway. He reinstated sanctions this week after the Russian president launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
“Are we surprised that China feels encouraged to do what they want to do when we have a president who doesn’t believe in American power?” Who doesn’t believe in American energy, who doesn’t believe in American jobs and has no idea of the priorities and challenges that threaten this country?
While Biden directed his attacks on Putin, CPAC Republicans spent a lot of time criticizing the US president.
“We are the world’s number one energy producer, we have to be that Joe Biden gave it, it’s time to get it back,” Hawley said.
Senator Josh Hawley called on Biden to resign in his speech to the CPAC
“If you want to send a message to Vladimir Putin, here is a message to send him: We will be the ones to supply oil and gas to the world that has shut down your energy sector.”
And while Hawley doesn’t think Biden has been tough enough on Putin’s energy sector, he represents one side of the Republican division that doesn’t believe the United States should intervene in the region.
Hawley called Biden’s foreign policy approach “accidental” and “ruthless,” but stressed, “We don’t need American soldiers fighting in Europe,” in an interview with the Daily Signal.
The 42-year-old senator said he would not “wait to see what Joe Biden does” and planned to introduce legislation to open up US energy production.
“We will open it like you have never seen before,” he told the applauding crowd.
“It’s time to allow the good, strong American worker to go out there and start drilling for oil, to start exploring natural gas. “Let’s start driving again, let them do what we do best – show America, show the world the power of this nation, get America back to work, open American energy,” Hawley said.
South Dakota Gov. Christie Noem seems to have agreed.
“A strong American president who puts his citizens first will take these six actions right now,” she wrote on Twitter, followed by a series of demands including restarting the Keystone Pipeline, reopening federal drilling lands and exploring natural gas and the imposition of severe sanctions on Russia’s energy sector.
Donald TrumpRussia’s energy independence policy has been maintained Vladimir Putin under control, according to the deputy adviser to the former president for national security K.T. McFarland, who said Thursday that the president Joe Biden had to sanction the Russian oil and gas industry after its invasion of Ukraine.
McFarland said she deliberately chose to wear yellow – one of the colors of the Ukrainian flag – when she appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida.
After dozens of Republicans accusing Biden of weakness in failing to prevent Putin’s attack, McFarland said Trump’s energy policy has helped curb Russian aggression.
“If oil costs $ 40 a barrel, which was when President Trump left office, the Russians are ruined,” she said.
“They can’t afford to go to war. War is expensive.
KT McFarland, Trump’s deputy national security adviser at the White House for four months, said the former president’s energy independence policy had kept Putin under control.
McFarland said oil was priced at $ 40 a barrel when Trump left office. But it has since risen sharply, filling Vladimir Putin’s coffers and funding his military machine.
In this photo, taken from a video published by the press service of the Ukrainian police, military helicopters, apparently Russian, fly over the outskirts of Kiev, Ukraine
In the Glukhov region, the Ukrainian military collided with an armored column of 15 T-72 tanks with American Javelin missiles
Moscow, the world’s largest natural gas supplier and one of the world’s largest oil producers, could only “play big” on the world stage if energy prices are high, she said.
Biden, she said, immediately reversed Trump’s policies.
“So he immediately shut down the American energy industry, oil and natural gas, the energy we exported to other countries, which stopped, and what happened, the price of oil skyrocketed,” she said.
“Vladimir Putin is rich and can choose when to invade.”
McFarland was deputy national security adviser for the first four months of the Trump administration.
She initially served under Mike Flynn and was asked to step down after he was fired for failing to reveal talks with Russia’s ambassador to Washington.
She said Biden’s sanctions would not hit Putin where it hurts – the oil and gas industry.
Her remarks added flesh to Republican cries that Biden was guilty, but Democrats opposed it, saying Trump’s comfortable relationship with Putin meant he would not curb it.
She spoke as Ukrainian forces battled Russian invaders from three countries after Moscow launched an attack on land, sea and air, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes.
Republicans lined up to accuse Biden of weakness.
“As we pray for the Ukrainian people, make no mistake: THIS happens when America’s enemies see the weak and incompetent @POTUS,” tweeted US spokesman Scott Perry, adding the hashtag Bidenisafailure.
Republicans in the House of Representatives said: “President Biden’s weakness on the world stage has encouraged our enemies. China, Iran and North Korea are watching.
Matt Schlap, who heads the organization behind the CPAC and a leading conservative voice, said the issue of Russia and Ukraine would be a key topic for the next four days.
The attack reached Ukraine on all fronts with bombs and missiles dropped on targets across the country in the early hours, followed by attacks by troops from Crimea, Donbas, Belgorod and Belarus, as well as helicopter landings in Kiev and power plants on the Dnieper River. The Chernobyl nuclear power plant also fell into the hands of Russian forces
Russian Ka-52 combat helicopter seen in the field after forced landing Kiev, Ukraine
He said there were differences between the party coalition spread.
“You know, Liz Cheney’s Wing of the Republican Party.” he is becoming increasingly marginalized and discredited, “he told DailyMail.com. “So that makes people turn to different voices to try to say, well, you know, if you’re not a military expert, do you think we should use America’s power, its treasure, to intervene?”
“And I would say that I think most people here would actually listen to the case to defend Ukraine, but the president has to do it.
“He has to somehow transform himself from this man who reads a line in the middle of the day into a president who gives big speeches in prime time, including press conferences, about what he thinks we should do.”
Recent polls show little support for the US role in the conflict.
The Associated Press’s Center for Public Affairs (NORC) found that only 22 percent of Republicans believe the United States should play a major role in the conflict, compared with 32 percent of Democrats.