Back in July, Joe Biden traveled to Saudi Arabia to meet crown prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, the leader of a nation
he once pledged to make a "pariah" owing to their 'human rights' record.
In a bid to be cordial, Biden even shared a cordial fist bump with Prince Salman.
Why was Biden in Saudi Arabia?
After waging war on energy in the US by shutting down the Keystone
pipeline a few days after being inaugurated and restricting drilling and fracking on US
soil, Biden was in Saudi Arabia to plead with Prince Salman and OPEC to
increase the production of oil to combat the energy crisis. Saudi is the
de-facto leader of OPEC.
The
Wall Street Journal recently revealed that the desperate Biden administration officials even urge
Saudi Arabia to delay the OPEC+ vote to cut oil production until the
group’s next meeting.
When will the next meeting occur?
In December i.e. after the midterm elections.
It was also revealed that US officials cautioned the Saudi
government that cutting
oil production would weaken Washington’s already strained relationship
with the kingdom.
But none of this imploration and threats worked
The kingdom and its OPEC+ allies announced a massive cut to oil production by 2 million barrels per day.
This cut has caused a spike in the price of crude oil and a further rise
in US gas prices is expected to follow.
The US consumer who is already suffering under crippling inflation will struggle further.
How did the White House respond?
As they do with all their adversaries they accused the Saudis of
being pro-Russia
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed OPEC+ had “aligned
their energy policy with Russia’s war aims and against the American people.”
The Saudi authorities released a statement rejected the Biden administration's claims.
They insist that cut to oil production was made
through a “consensus among member states” and it was “based purely on economic
considerations that take into account maintaining a balance of supply and demand
in the oil markets, as well as aim to limit volatility that does not serve the
interests of consumers and producers.”
The Saudis also rebuffed the White House’s claim that they were siding
with Russia.
The ministry warned that “any attempts to distort the facts
about the Kingdom’s position regarding the crisis in Ukraine are unfortunate,
and will not change the Kingdom’s principled position.”
This is a stern and public rebuke of Biden
When Biden was inaugurated the D.C experts had claimed that the adults were
back in the room and there would be smooth sailing both nationally and
internationally.
It has been a little less than two years and the rebukes, insults
and open displays of hostility have been
coming from all over.
French President Emmanuel Macron recently
rebuked Biden following Biden's reckless claim that the West
was facing an impending “nuclear Armageddon”.
Macron was also furious with Biden when Australia scuttled its submarine deal with France in order to buy submarines with U.S. and British technology instead.
Biden was forced to apologize to Macron in public claiming he was unaware that France wasn't informed long before that the deal failed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXISlH9fXio
Early in September, North Korea declared itself to be a nuclear weapons state, despite Biden's stern warning to do all in his power to stop them. North Korea recently fired 2 ballistic missiles at Japan and followed that with many other missiles after Kamala Harris visited South Korea.
Iran's government officials refused to meet directly with their American counterparts as they negotiate the U.S. return to a nuclear agreement between the two countries; instead, they talk through intermediaries in Vienna. Iran's president even ruled out meeting with Biden
Back to Biden’s request to OPEC
It appears Biden didn’t ask the OPEC+ to not cut production of
oil, but instead to merely postpone the drastic cut until after the mid-terms.
He wasn’t concerned about regular the hardships Americans would suffer at petrol stations,
he was more focused on the elections.
The administration officials were smart not to explicitly mention
the mid-term elections but the goal behind the request for postponement of the vote to cut production was perfectly obvious.
A leader looking for a long-term solution to any problem would
not even consider political or electoral ramifications. He would work with allies, irrespective to find a long-term solution.
Biden didn't attempt to alleviate the harm done due to high gas prices, he merely wanted to postpone it.
Can this not be regarded as Biden’s attempt to work with a foreign
power to meddle with the results of the mid-term elections?
Back in 2019, the Democrat-controlled House impeached President Trump on allegations that he withheld military aid to compel Ukrainian President Zelensky to launch an investigation into former vice president Joe Biden.
The Democrats also alleged that Trump withheld a White House meeting that
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky desperately sought.
The Bidens are known to have engaged in shady business dealing in Ukraine. Ukrainian government officials are known to be very corrupt. As President, Trump was right to ask
Ukrainians to investigate a man who could be President and who was possibly compromised
by adversarial foreign powers.
The Democrats claimed it was Trump's efforts to solicit foreign interference
in the 2020 election while withholding vital military aid.
Military aid to a foreign is never unconditional, Trump was right to hold the aid as leverage to initiate and expedite an investigation that was in US interests.
The Biden administration recently withheld $130 million of
military aid to Egypt over human rights abuses.
Zelensky, who the Democrats have begun to unconditionally adore, himself
said that he wasn’t pressured by Trump to investigate Biden.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q19IYb35rys
But facts didn’t matter, because the impeachment wasn’t based on
principle. The goal was to sully Trump’s record and hurt him politically. So
they can prefix ‘impeached’ before his name.
Based on the standards set during Trump’s first impeachment, Biden most
certainly sought interference in the mid-term elections.
After winning the House and the Senate, the GOP must initiate
proceedings to impeach Biden on grounds that his administration solicited foreign
interference in the 2020 election.
In fact, there is no need to wait for the mid-term results.
This could be an issue for the mid-terms. GOP leaders could go on
every conservative media outlet to make a lot of noise about the Biden administration's
scandalous request to OPEC to postpone cuts to oil production until after the midterms.
As always, the big question remains, will the Republicans rise up to
these challenges?
No harm in hoping!
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