Here's How Biden and Harris Told Zelenskyy He Could Help Their Reelection Effort
http://twitchy.com/dougp/2024/04/15/heres-how-biden-and-harris-reportedly-told-zelenskyy-he-could-help-their-reelection-effort-n2395104
The Biden administration fully supports Ukraine's fight against Russia, except perhaps anything that could cause their reelection campaign some issues back at home:
John Hudson (@John_Hudson) ~ New: When Kamala Harris met privately with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in February, she told him something he didn’t want to hear: Refrain from attacking Russian oil refineries, a tactic U.S. officials believed would raise global energy prices and invite more aggressive Russian retaliation inside Ukraine.
The request irritated Zelenskyy and his top aides, who view Kyiv’s string of drone strikes on Russian energy facilities as a rare bright spot in a grinding war of attrition. Zelenskyy brushed off the recommendation, but in subsequent weeks, Washington reinforced the warning in multiple conversations with Kyiv, including by Jake Sullivan, who traveled to Ukraine’s capital in March.
Instead of acquiescing to the U.S. requests, Ukraine doubled down on the strategy, striking a range of Russian facilities, including an April 2 attack on Russia’s third-largest refinery 800 miles from the font.
The incidents have exacerbated tensions in an already-strained relationship and come as Biden ramps up his reelection campaign amid a six-month high in oil prices.
Defenders of Ukraine’s strategy accuse the White House of prioritizing domestic politics over Kyiv’s military goals. U.S. officials say the rationale behind their warnings is more nuanced than critics suggest, noting that Moscow’s counterattack has hurt Ukraine more than the refinery attacks hurt Russia.
More details here: http://washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/04/15/ukraine-russia-oil-refinery-attacks/
Lucas Tomlinson (@LucasFoxNews) ~ Harris and Sullivan tell Zelenskyy to stop attacking Russian oil refineries with gas prices at 6-month highs.
Meet Zelenskyy's newest military advisor ...
I mean ... if Zelenskyy wants Ukrainian streetwalkers to improve their blow-job techniques, by all means, bring in Kamala-ala-Bimbo as an expert advisor. But, for any other issues ... uh ... no ... not so much.
Not unlike when the Biden White House siphoned off the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve to try and lower gas prices ahead of the 2022 midterms, now they're asking Zelenskyy not to do something that might contribute to an increase in gas prices before the 2024 election? Shocker:
Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) ~ Biden admin dragging out wars for the sake of saving their own behinds on domestic policy decisions. Treating it like a game.
Of course, if Trump did something similar, the Democrats would have impeached him again for helping Putin:
Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) ~ Also, can you imagine the media and Dem freak out if Trump said to stop bombing Russian oil refineries? They’d again call him a Russian asset, of course.
Paul Hewton (@paul_hewton) ~ Actual Russian collusion.
Matt Schlapp (@mschlapp) ~ In other words the Biden policy is not about winning the war - just the election. How about a real plan to win the war and then you have bragging rights. This is all a charade.
The Russia/Ukraine war could go on forever as far as people like Biden are concerned. They've become addicted to the spending and whatever other benefits come from it.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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