Heil Comrade Biden's Truth Ministry

       At a hearing last week before the Senate Committee on DHS and Governmental Affairs, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, let on that the Biden administration has initiated a "truth bureau"  entitled the Ministry of Truth to counteract disinformation. To head this bureau, he has appointed Nina "Scary Poppins" Jankovicz a notorious source of disinformation.  That our government has the need to for a truth squad is reminiscent of Joseph Goebbels in Nazi Germany or the USSR's Pravda under Joseph Stalin in which the "truth bureau" was the main source for both brutal regimes of disinformation and propaganda.

      Why does Biden find this necessary? There are a number of reasons, some very obvious, and some even more important but less obvious. The fact that this became known shortly after it was announced the Elon Musk would purchase Twitter certainly seems like it may have served as an impetus as Twitter had been a major source of silencing Biden's opposition, including his rival  President Donald Trump who has been permanently banned by the current group at Twitter.  Musk has vowed to open twitter to all points of view, that made the left and Twitter employees become unhinged.  Imagine that supporting the First Amendment is a matter of controversy.  I suppose it is when the "truth Squad" at Twitter considers anything they don't like calling it mean and hate speech or disinformation. Twitter has been embarrassed on numerous occasion to find that what they deemed disinformation turned out to be true and the real disinformation is the side they took. Obviously they have served as a propaganda machine for Joe Biden and the radical wing of the Democrat party. They have questioned the world's richest man owning a company like the new Twitter that will serve as an open forum.  Even the editorial board of the Washington Post has questioned this forgetting the world's second richest man is its owner. This is just another example of far left hypocrisy.

      But it gets worse, Mayorkas has appointed Nina "Scary Poppins" Jankowicz, who has made a career based on disinformation. Her two biggest lies were the fake Trump-Russia collusion based on the Clinton paid for Steele dossier that wasted three years and millions of dollars and calling the Hunter Biden laptop hard drive information Russian disinformation. It was truly amazing when Mayorkas claimed ro be unaware of her dubious background. In fact,  she will term anything the regime disagrees with as disinformation from Russia or another foreign country. You see, Mayorkas has said it will be from disinformation from foreign sources that the Ministry of Truth will examine. Recall, this is exactly what rogue FBI agents used to disparage Carter Page and others associated with President Trump in obtaining FISA warrants. Susan Rice, who had access to this material, looked at over 200 in the finale weeks of the Obama regime for no logical reason, except spying on Trump and his potential advisors and appointees looking for dirt. It wouldn't surprise me if she has both access and control of what Jankowicz ultimately reports as she is the liaison between Obama and the Biden, holding a position for which she has no experience. Anything bad for Biden will be deemed disinformation.

      We know that after the midterms, unless there is serious voter fraud, the Republican will retake the house and more than likely the Senate. With nothing to loose, as he is essentially a lame duck, Biden and Obama's most destructive policy will come to the forefront and that is Apocalyptic anthropogenic climate change. The left has been pushing this destructive lie for years in a slow, but very thought out and effective plan.  The one thing the left refuses to do is to debate the issue in a meaningful way using another standard lie filled response, its proven science, though it is not. Unable to get any serious legislation passed, he will try to resort to executive orders to further destroy the American economy, Obama's "fundamental change" from 2008. spending us into debt, depression, and recession. The Truth Ministry will be used to deflect criticism of this Nazi hoax, as more and more science based information has been published that disproves the severity of climate change, if it even exists and that Man has anything to do with it. Like the real science behind Covid-19, the truth about climate change will be repressed.

      Americans should be appalled that Obama and Biden have come up with this blatant attempt to over ride the First Amendment,  obscure the truth, and instead push a false narrative especially since the false narrative is to destroy the American economy and our way of life.

The Leaked SCOTUS Document

      Last week, the unthinkable occurred. A document containing a preliminary opinion written by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, was leaked to Politico. The case case, Dobbs vs Jackson,  argued last February. Leaking of any Supreme Court decision either preliminary or final has never occurred and is a violation of ethics and all clerks and court personal are warned about this.  The law suit concerns a new Mississippi law that limits abortions to the first 15 weeks of pregnancy.  It does not prohibit abortion.  The opinion states that the Supreme Court decision of the 1970s, Roe vs Wade was fundamentally wrong and that abortion law should be left to the states. There is no guarantee that this document will mirror the final decision, but one would have thought that WW3 had been declared.  Democrats and especially the far left became totally unhinged.

      Chief Justice John Roberts has launched an investigation to find who leaked this document. It is thought that it was probably a clerk, but it could be anyone with access to the document even including an actual justice. Little information in regard to the investigation has been forthcoming and the MSM seems to have little interest, though some consider the leaker a hero. My opinion and is that it was a clerk of one of the three liberal justices, Sotomayer, Kagan, or Breyer.  Though I think that Breyer has much  more integrity than the other two,  one of his clerks, knowing he/she will soon be out of a job, may have thought there was little to loose and a new lucrative job on CNN or MSDNC. 

      The rage on the left has demonstrated their  hypocrisy. Of course abortion has not been banned anywhere and more than likely most states, if not all, will allows some abortions even if it is just for rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother. Many will probably list a cut off at a fetal age, some obviously more than others.  Most Americans believe abortion after the first trimester should be forbidden, I wonder where these hypocrites were, who claim that the government is telling them what they can do with their bodies, when the Biden regime demanded mask and vaccination mandates. Sadly, people have died from Covid-19 vaccinations and others have had to be hospitalized, as neither mandate has worked and in some instances has had deleterious undesirable side effects.  The real purpose of the mandates was to show the power the Biden administration has in controlling Americans. In addition, sixty million black babies have been aborted since Roe v Wade went into effect. Where is Black Lies Matter and other racial activists?  I guess the lives of black babies really don't matter to the left.

      Paid professional demonstrators have been enlisted to aid in demonstrations at the Supreme Court building and nationwide, disrupting services at Catholic churches.  The Washington, DC police have found it necessary to encase the Supreme Court building with high fencing and supply extra security.  In addition, a malicious zealot posted the home addresses of six of the Supreme Court justices and police are now required to supply extra security as demonstrations at their residences are raucous and fortunately are yet to turn violent.  The demonstrations at SCOTUS justices' homes are illegal and the DOJ should be taking names and arresting people. If this opinion favored the people that are now protesting,  no doubt the FBI would be arresting people if the Right to Lifers were protesting at justices' homes, no matter how peaceful. Last weekend two Molotov cocktails were heaved into a Right to Life office in Wisconsin. Thankfully, no one was  injured, but there was considerable fire damage. No arrests yet. As we have seen, AG Merrick Garland is not one who always follows the laws when it may effect leftist radicals, but has demonstrated time and time again that he is little more than a political hack rapidly sicking the FBI onpsrents peacefully protesting at school board meetings.  Thank goodness  his Obama sponsored nomination was held up, as he is obviously not  Supreme Court justice material.

      Politically, the motivation for this dastardly act could have been to mobilize Democrat voters for the November midterm elections. Biden has been a disaster for America and the left are far behind in the polls. They are likely to loose one or both houses of Congress. The Democrats have benefited with fundraising, bringing in more than $3 million and polls show more Democrats will vote, but the same poll reports that more Republicans than Democrats will vote due to this issue.

      There are numerous ways to enjoy sex and avoid pregnancy beside abortion, all of which are simpler and safer than abortion, a surgical procedure. Men and women who do not want pregnancy should consider other options. Mistakes may have unwanted consequences.

      

The Historic 2008 Presidential Election and What It Means Now

       The United States Presidential Election of 2008 was truly historic.  It was the first time a communist was elected president. Yes, Barack Obama had a D after his name, but it should have been a C as it solidified the Democrat Party's abrupt shift to the far left.  Shielded by the MSM and by Dreams From My Father, an  autobiography, ghosted by Bill Ayers, filled with lies and disinformation, Obama's communist ties and real upbringing were hidden from the general public.  It took me a significant amount of time to research his life before he became a US senator.  What truly amazed me was that neither John McCain, Mitt Romney, or their surrogates ever took advantage of his communist background during their campaigns.  If the truth had come out, he would never have been elected.

      Obama was mentored, during his teenage years in Hawaii, by admitted communist Frank Marshall Davis, who had moved there in semi retirement and to represent the long shoremen's union in Honolulu. In "Dreams", he claimed that Davis was a drinking pal of his grandfather and he merely tagged along. In reality, Davis is the very reason why he showed up in Chicago, a city where he had no ties, after graduating from Columbia. Due to Davis's recommendation, he was immediately welcomed with open arms by the far left leadership, including Ayers.  Obama began work as a community organizer, using Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals as a primer.  He contributed little to the protest at Altgeld Gardens, a horrendous place built in the mid 1940s housing a 99% African American population.  He left that to others, though in his book he claimed responsibility for summer jobs and asbestos removal. His first visit to Chicago didn't last long. With the help of Bill Ayers and his father, CEO of Commonwealth Edison utility, he went on to Harvard Law School to continue his education. after graduation, he returned to Chicago, joining Davis, Minor, Barnhill, and Gallard, a law firm that mostly practiced civil rights litigation. One of his early cases was using  President Carter's Community Redevelopment Act to force banks and S&Ls to give mortgages to those who would probably never repay them.  This, in part, was the reason for the financial crisis in 2008. Obama lied and claimed he had nothing to do with the law suit against City Group, yet he listed on the court documents.  Obama's career sky rocketed from here, being appointed to various far left organizations that someone with very limited experience would have ever been asked to join in eluding the Woods Foundation, that served as a laundrymat for far left dark money.

      Obama ventured into politics as the campaign chairman for Alice Palmer.  Palmer was a communist and Illinois state senator, who saw an opportunity to advance her career when the seat of the US House of Representatives came open, when Mel Reynolds was convicted of statutory rape of an underage campaign worker.  Palmer lost the crowded primary to Jessie Jackson Jr. and decided to seek her old state senate seat again.  Obama turned against her by entering the race. Prior to the primary he had Palmer and another candidate disqualified and won the seat unopposed.  He ran on both the Democrat Party and New Party (Communist Party) tickets.(The US Supreme Court later banned the practice of running on more than one party's ticket) Despite virtually little to claim as an accomplishment while a member of the Illinois State Senate, Obama entered the race for an open seat on the US Senate. Running well behind in both the Democrat primary and final elecgtion, he resorted to dirty tricks.  His campaign managed to unseal sealed divorce proceedings of both his Democrat and Republican opponents and again won the Senate seat essentially unopposed.  With virtually no real accomplishments and with a number associations with communists and far leftists, he entered the 2008 presidential race and managed to get the Democrat nomination over Hillary Clinton and other more accomplished Democrats. 

      Ironically, Obama had his records from Columbia sealed not only to hide his grades, though I am certain they were all very good, but to hide how he, a mediocre student at Occidental College in California, was able to gain admission to Columbia as well as courses and their professors he took.Two of his professors were Richard Cloward in Sociology and Edward Said  professor of Mideastern Studies. Said later was forced to retire after his book, Orientalism,  an anti Israel and pro Palestinian work, was later found to be based on false personal information and replaced by an Obama friend from Chicago, Rashid Khalidi. Cloward though is the basis for Obama destructive policies.  Richard Cloward along with his wife Francis Ford Piven proposed a theory in 1966 that a guaranteed annual income would end poverty and create a financial crisis that would essentially destroy the dollar and capitalism and replace it with socialism.  Obama during his presidency used this theory, but on steroids, doubling the national debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion using wasteful and unnecessary spending.  The Affordable Care Act. also known as Obamacare, contributed significantly to this, as it was neither affordable or about medical care, but it was certain an act, as Obama lied to tell Americans they could keep their doctor, their plan, and hospital.  The  cost of the web site was more than the cost of Trump's wall. Another thing Obama did was take over responsibility for college student loans.  This immediately gave colleges and universities the go ahead to raise tuition and fees significantly as they now knew that the government would cover the loans that went into default,  Currently there are $1.6 trillion in loans outstanding.  Forgiving part or all of these loans as the far left would like him to do in the face of record inflation would further destroy the economy and place us into a recession.

      Trump shocked the world when he won the presidential election in 2016 and immediately set about reversing much of the Obama's destructive policies, mostly by executive order.  His biggest mistake and that of the Republicans was not having a plan in place to replace Obamacare, although they were able to rid it of some of its money wasting portions. Two of the best policies Trump reversed were the Marxist Par4is Accord and the agreement with Iran, that may have been the worst deal ever. Obama could not let Trump win in 2020, as he would have probably had no legacy left and America would have been far far away from transitioning to a socialist/communist system. Obama weaponized most of the executive branches of government, especially Justice (including CIA, FBI, and NSA). State was also significantly weaponized.

      The options for the Democrats in 2020 looked very slim.  Though there were almost two dozen candidates at one time or another, none seemed very popular and Bernie Sanders, who wasn't really a Democrat leading the pack. Hillary Clinton seemed to be the source for the fake Russia dossier, that was used to try to disparage Trump, but It was Obama who had used Susan Rice to spy on Trump and his associates up until the day Trump took the oath of office. The weaponized departments  of the executive branch were used to undermine Trump and his effort to right America's ship.  Obama needed to find someone to replace Sanders at the top of the ballot and he went to his VP Joe Biden. Biden had been selected, not so much for his political acumen, but for the protection he afforded Obama from getting impeached as no one would want the forever incompetent Biden.  Despite being Obama's VP, Biden was never known for his approach to civil rights and in fact could be something of a bigot.  Obama asked South Carolina congressman, James Clyburn a pillar of the Black Congressional Caucus to support Biden as part of his plan and thus Biden won the South Carolina primary and never looked back. Biden was well awatre of the deal and agreed to let Obama run the show.  For the same reason Obama chose Biden, he had Biden choose Kamala Harris, an unlikeable light weight as his running mate, but a woman of color to help solidify the black and female vote.  Obama would step in when need and use Susan Rice as the intermediary.  Susan Rice, sneaky, slimy Susan, had no problem doing dirty work and Biden appointed her to a position for which she had no background, but a position that did not require approval. With Covid-19 as an excuse, the Democrats limited Biden's public exposure and demanded unsolicited mail in ballots.  Despite Covid-19, the presidential election of 2020 had the most votes cast.  At 2 AM, it looked like Trump was going to win again, with a lead of more than 200,000 votes in a number of key swing states.  Then suddenly at 2;01 AM  the vote count reversed itself and eventually Biden was declared the winner. (Check out Dinesh D'Souza's new movie 2000 Mules that shows one of the ways the election was stolen.)

      On January 20, shortly after his inauguration, Biden signed a stack of executive orders replacing the successes of the Trump administration with the failures of his and Obama's regime.  He has considered to do so, even ignoring successful court challenges, especially to his open border policy.  Obama wants an open border as this is another money wasting policy, giving illegal aliens free medical care, education, and money for housing and food stamps will continue to stress the American economy and add to inflation and recession. That is the real purpose of the open border, not the path to citizenship.  A path to citizenship would be a bonus, but much harder to achieve.  Likewise subsidizing nonrenewable energy sources is another way of wasting money, especially while at the same time penalizing our oil and natural gas industry that during Trump's administration. had reasonable energy costs and were so abundant that America could make money from exports. 

      The latest step toward communism has just occurred.  Obama recently made a speech about eliminating disinformation.  When Elon Musk purchased Twitter and has said he wants to make it open to all speech, the left went crazy. We don't want a billionaire controlling a platform with free speech.  No they prefer another billionaire restricting free speech and using misinformation with ownership of the Washington Post. Now Obama has had Biden establish a Disinformation Governance Board from Stalin's or Goebbels playbook.  They have appointed a political hack, Nina Jankowitz, who had been responsible for some of the most serious disinformation. The fox has been appointed to run the henhouse. Obama is getting desperate as it looks like the Democrats will loose big time during the midterms. Withholding the truth or replacing it was propaganda from potential voters might help in a few instances. I wonder if she will try to shut down Twitter or Fox News. Does this mean that the climate change hoax will remain active or that the weak strains of Covid will require more lockdowns, masks, and other draconian measures that really don't work and bring back unsolicited mail in ballots. 

(I will write a special article on the leaked Supreme Court document soon.  I'm working to get more details on the leak that seems to have lost importance in the news.  This issue is filled with Democrat hypocrisy.)

         

Earth Day Story (reprinted from my original story from April 22, 2012)

      In honor of Earth Day, I am going to tell you my favorite Earth Day story.  It did not originate with me, but I have checked the dates and it is certainly true.  Earth Day began on April 22, 1970 in Philadelphia.  Though probably not the founder, Ira Einhorn, something of a 1960s hippie, counterculturist, and left wing radical, nonetheless claimed to be. Ira soon became a favorite of the limousine liberals in Philadelphia and called himself the "Unicorn"as Einhorn is German for one horn.  He managed to eke out a living through his connection to Earth Day as a consultant.  He was popular enough that Holly Maddox, a local model, moved in with him in 1972.  In 1977, having tired of Einhorn, Holly decided that her career was going nowhere in Philadelphia and decided to take up an offer and move to New York City, where there were many more opportunites.  Ira did not take kindly to this, but Ms Maddox left anyway. Having achieved some success in Gotham, Ms. Maddox returned to Philadelphia at Einhorn's request to pick up the remainder of her stuff.  While in Philadelphia, she disappeared.  The police investigated and Ira told them that she went to the drug store for some cigarettes and never returned.  He thought she had decided to go back to New York.  The investigation went nowhere until eighteen months later,  when Ira's neighbors reported a terrible odor emanating from his apartment.  That's when the police discovered her body in a steamer trunk in Ira's closet and arrested him.  He was then dubbed the "Unicorn Killer" in the local media.  Einhorn claimed the FBI stashed the body in his apartment.  Barbara Bronfman, a limousine liberal friend, posted the 10% of his forty thousand dollar bail that had been reduced from two million dollars and attorney and future Pennsylvania senator Arlen Spector represented him.  Before the trial, but after the arraignment,  Einhorn skipped bail and disappeared.  He was tried in absentia and convicted of a brutal murder in1992. Seventeen years after he disappeared he was found living in France and married to a Swedish woman.  He fought extradition for five years, but was eventually returned to Philadelphia, retried and convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole.  Ironically the day of his arrest, March 28, 1979, coincides with the date of the worst nuclear disaster in American history less than one hundred miles away at Three Mile Island.

      How many people died at Three Mile Island? The answer is none.  How ironic, the man who claimed to have founded Earth Day killed more people than the worst nuclear disaster in American history.  By the way, I corrected Wikipedia on the date and gave them the reference to Three Mile Island confirmed by references in the Philadelphia Inquirer. 

Peak Lithium

     In 1956, M. King Hubbert published a paper on peak oil.  His theory is that at some point in time, as the amount of reserves of oil decrease, the cost of raising oil would become too costly for it to be economically feasible for use. At the time, it was predicted that this would occur by 2006.  The theory was quite flawed as known reserves increased drastically as well as techniques to raise oil including horizontal drilling and fracking. In addition, the costs of these procedures came down significantly and so the theory has been abandoned with predictions of oil lasting from 200 to 2000 years.  

      Because of the failure of the Peak Oil Theory, another misguided theory of apocalyptic anthropogenic climate change has replaced it.  (Ironically, when apocalyptic anthropogenic climate change was first discussed in a work of fiction in1956, it also predicted doom by 2006.) One of the main proposals to save the planet is to switch from internal combustion engines (ICE) to electric vehicles (EV).  Evs are battery driven and the main element in these batteries is lithium. The advantages of lithium is that batteries can be recharged, produce an acceptable amount of heat, and produce energy for a reasonable amount of use before recharging is necessary.  Many countries including the United States would like to do away with ICE automobiles by 2035-2040, blaming them for the crisis of climate change. One of biggest promoters of the climate change theory is a country that is benefiting economically from this propaganda, while ignoring it themselves. That country is obviously China, the biggest polluter.  Both solar panels and batteries for EVs, cellphones, laptop computers, and other products that require powerful battery power are manufactured in China.

      As usual, the left hasn't considered the unintended consequences of lithium powered "green energy," in particular, the subject of this article. Currently, it is estimated that there are between 30-90 million tons of lithium reserves in the world.  This element is found in two states, either as an ore or in liquid form in salt marshes.  About 1/3 of the world's lithium is located in Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina in salt marshes.  There is some controversy to collecting it from salt marshes as the lithium containing salt water  is forced to the surface by replacing it with fresh  clean water from the local aquifers. Most of the salt marsh lithium is mined in Chile and very little in Bolivia and Argentina political, economic, and access reasons. The largest producer of lithium is Australia as ore from mines deep within the earth's surface. This ore is also rich in aluminum and requires a complex separation process.  Currently extraction techniques have received pushback from environmentalists, as building mines requires removing significant amounts of overlay, destroying grazing lands and the habitat of some species of endangered plants and animals.  Even though new techniques are being developed to cause less environmental damage, it is unlikely that the our government will make permitting easy, as 10% of lithium reserves are located in the United States, mostly in Nevada.  Currently because of the difficulty in permitting and the cost of mining, little lithium is mined in America. Of note, is that China has partnered with Australia in mining lithium for its battery production. 

      About 300,000 tones of lithium is mined yearly to meet current needs, but with goals all over the world to promote EVs, this could easily go to 20xs or more of that amount. Like oil, lithium is not a renewable and although battery powered vehicles run much cleaner than ICE's,  recovering the lithium and producing the batteries are not particularly clean processes. It is predicted that lithium reserves could be used up by 2035-2040. Fortunately lithium batteries are recyclable.  Unfortunately, the recycling process recovers only about 50% of the lithium, though a new technique, developed in Finland, may recover as much as 80%.  The recovery process requires very high temperatures, like those from carbon fired plants, so carbon based products are necessary.  In addition, there is the problem of cobalt in the cathode that is toxic and also not particularly abundant.  Most of it is found and mined in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by child slave labor controlled by, you guessed it, China.   Cobalt is very toxic and of great danger during the recovery process.  This is why we are told not to dispose of electronics with cobalt with other waste. Cobalt is used in the cathode to reduce the amount of heat produced as well as the effiency of the ion flow.  Fortunately, a satisfactory replacement has been invented at the University of Texas in Austin, using manganese and aluminum. (Is't that where Elon Musk is moving his plant.)

      To summarize, we are substituting one non renewable for another of which there are far less reserves. Though from an environmental standpoint, EVs run much cleaner than ICEs, the process to mine lithium and produce and recycle the batteries are  not clean and carry significant environmental risks as well as adding to climate change, if indeed significant anthropogenic climate change is real. In the next 30 years we could reach "peak lithium" and where do we go from there?  Obviously politicians need to give this some thought as to how real are the benefits of EVs  environmentally, economically, and strategically, especially as China controls much of the lithium production. 

Russia-Ukraine: My Take.

      Ukraine throughout its history has been part of many empires and rarely experienced freedom.  In fact, during WW1 Ukrainians fought for both the Austro-Hungarian Empire that controlled western Ukraine, and the Imperial Russian Army that controlled the East.  After WW1, Ukraine went through a period of anarchy until an independent Ukraine SSR was established for a very short time, but in 1921 its independent army was defeated by the Red Army under Trotsky and it was fully incorporated into the Russian controlled USSR.  With the failure of communist five year plans under Lenin and then Stalin and aided by th worldwide depression, famine broke out in Eastern Europe. Stalin confiscated the Ukrainian harvest in 1932, withheld Ukraine's own food from Ukrainians and as a result 3.5 million Ukrainians died of starvation. Sixty years later, after the breakup of the USSR, the world finally  officially recognized this as genocide. 

      In 2014, Putin's sensing the obvious weakness of the Obama-Biden regime seized the Crimean Peninsula.  This violated the agreement from the early 1990s that called for Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons for its freedom and independence from Russian control.  The Obama regime sent the Ukrainians a few blankets rather than arms and little else, so there wasn't much the Ukrainians could do.  In addition, Putin continued to fight a relatively small conflict in Eastern Ukraine, claiming ill treatment of ethnic Russians. In 1938, Hitler used a similar excuse to swallow up the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia. A weak British government led by Neville Chamberlain supported this despite Czech opposition. We all know what happened next.

      Sincec 1994, much of Eastern Europe has experienced  a significant amount of freedom, that has allowed them to grow and prosper.  Many have sought admittance to the EU and NATO, the later of which has grown from sixteen original members to currently thirty. Swedencand Finland, both who have not become NATO members are now considering joining.  Ukraine, though wanting EU and NATO membership, has not been able to achieve these upgrades.  Corruption has been the fake excuse given by the West and certainly corruption still exists, but some is from external sources such George Soros' Open Borders NGO and ironically and indirectly by the Biden family.

      On January 20, 2021, Biden sealed Ukraine's fate.  Only the Covid`19 pandemic has delayed what has followed.  America, that had been energy independentt under President Trump and a net exporter of oil and LNG, became a nation dependent on oil from other countries, including Russia (500K barrels/day). Stupidity abounds in the Biden regime, even if one actually believes that global warming and climate change exist.  Oil or natural gas doesn't created any carbon residuals while sitting in a pipeline, railroad tank car, tank truck, or maritime tanker.  It only produces carbon residuals after it is burned.  Therefore, their origin, be it Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Canada, or Texas doesn't really matter. Only stupidity by Biden and hatred of America by the left have harnessed American energy.  Despite a number of sanctions, all of which I am certain that Putin knew would result, his main hope is that Biden will continue to resist reopening America's energy. In addition just last month Biden has shut down the completion of the East Med Pipeline sending natural gas to Greece, Italy, and the Balkans from Israel, Egypt, and Cyprus, continuing those areas dependence on Russia.  Again he has listen to the global warming hoaxers, making those countries more dependent on Russian oil and natural gas.

      So what is Putin's  real goal? Certainly the mistreatment of ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine is a coverup. Many people in Ukraine and Russia have mixed roots. Russia is certainly not short of food, since the downfall of the Soviet Union, Putin and his fellow oligarchs are doing well economically.  I don't think Putin could actually think that NATO is interested in attacking Russia, even if NATO countries now border on Russia. I doubt if an attack on Poland, or the Baltic countries would be desirable as it would trigger an Article 5 situation, calling for all for one and one for all of NATO. It certainly isn't wealth, as he is one of the wealthiest men in the world. So it has to be power. For megalomaniacs, there is never enough power and he has seen how weak America, under Joe Biden, is,  so he wants to step into the void.  This time its not wheat that he wants to seize, but natural gas. Ukraine has the fourth largest reserves of natural gas in the world.  Combined with Russia, Putin could gain even more control of the price of natural gas for much of Europe and use it as a weapon to extort America and the West for other concessions.

      The question now is, has Putin biten off more that he can chew?  I'm certain that he did not expect the tenacity and resolve of the Ukrainian people.  He expected to be in Kyiv in 2 days with minimal losses of men and material and elimination of the current government.  This has not happened and now i think he is looking for a way out, hoping that a truce can be worked out by a broker that would favor him in negotiations. ( I wish Biden would try to protect our borders as aggressively as Ukrainian President Zelenskyy).  Meanwhile, even if Putin ultimately achieves some sort of a victory claim, the Russian people and more importantly the Russian oligarchs, may see through this and he may be forced to resign, though Putin has been ruthless enough to murder his opposition. The denial of access to SWIFT, the international banking system, to certain Russian banks has already caused a run on ATMs throughout Russia and the Russia Ruble has been in freefall.

     A negotiator that might be acceptable to both Russia and Ukraine could be Donald Trump.  I doubt if Biden would agree, as a Trump success would be politically undesirable to Biden.  So what's Biden's end game. Naturally he wants Putin to abandon his invasion and pull back.  With midterm elections now 8 months away, he needs something to go right.  Despite Nancy Pelosi extolling his brilliance, Biden continues to be seen as weak and incompetent. Vice President Harris, who went to Germany for NATO talks, continues to fail.  A Biden failure in Ukraine may give China the go ahead to invade Taiwan. 

      Meanwhile Zelenskyy, probably with the urging of Biden, has agreed to talk with Putin in Belarus, a country on Ukraine's northern border that served as a staging area for the invasion and run by Putin's stooge, Alexander Lukashenko. Belarus experienced massive peaceful demonstrations last summer,  its citizens objecting to what they perceived as another rigged presidential election. Putin will have to gain something in order to save face.  He would never go back to the preinvasion status.  Would Ukraine's promise not to join NATO or the EU be enough or would ceding the contested lands in  Eastern Ukraine be acceptable.  I doubt if Putin would agree to a plebiscite, as it certainly might not go his way. Zelenskyy has shown to be a brave and inspirational leader, who has not only solidified his country, but also NATO and most of the free world who support him. We hope and pray that this war ends immediately and Ukraine retains its freedom and independence.

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The Root Cause of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict.

      On January 20, 2020, Joe Biden signed a dozen executive orders reversing President Trumnp's successful policies, not understanding the unforeseen consequences of his idiocy.  One of these was to give Putin free range in Ukraine.  Putin could have acted almost immediately, but was forced to wait a year due to Covid-19, as it would not have worked out well to have an army trying to fight Ukraine and a deadly contagious disease at the same time. Now, with Covid-19 in its endemic stage, he acted.  He knew and correctly expected little real opposition from the Biden regime as there was virtually none from Obama-Biden when he gobbled up the Crimean Peninsula.  Both Biden and Obama were weak and allowed every country to take advantage of this weakness.  It was Trump that prevented Russian expansion, and forced China to accept more reasonable trade practices.  Trump also saw the failure of the poorly worked out nuclear deal with Iran and withdrew putting pressure on Iran elsewhere. 

      Biden and his far left "green" supporters don't understand or don't care, that if one believes that gas and oil cause climate change, while transported in a truck, tank car, ship,  pipeline, or still in the ground they don't produce global warming.  It is only when they are burned is carbon residuals produced. Therefore, whether the natural gas and oil originate in Russia, Iran, Canada, or Texas, its really doesn't matter, except to help or hurt America.  Under President Trump, America's economy was booming as we became energy independent and  an exporter of energy.  Though originally expensive, the cost of fracking has come way down as our reserves subsequently went way up. The old theory of "peak oil " was found to be wrong. Oil and gas not only contribute to fuel for vehicles and heating, but are also responsible for chemicals, fertilizers, medicines, and plastics.  The cost of all of these has risen dramatically and Biden's stupidity is the "root cause" of Putin's bellicose attitude and America's inflation.

      Putin's excuse for attacking Ukraine is that there are native Russians living there who are mistreated.  Rings similar to Hitler's claims in the Czech Sudetenland that caused a weak Neville Chamberlain to concede. In reality, Ukraine has the fourth largest natural gas reserves, mostly untapped.  Seizing these would allow Putin to control Europe's energy supply and contain NATO. It would also give him an edge, if he wanted to gobble up the Baltic States, even though they are now part of NATO.

      Biden has also recently nixed the completion of the Eastmed Pipeline that sends natural gas from Israel, Egypt and Cypress to Greece and the Balkans.  His excuses for doing so is weak, first citing non existent environmental concerns and now claiming that Turkey is against it.  In fact, Turkey was invited to participate and still could, but has objected to Israel's blockade of Turkish weapons shipments to terrorist Hamas in Gaza.

       Biden and the American left would rather hurt America and Europe than do what is right and makes sense. Opening up American gas and oil production would reduce inflation as the cost of nearly all goods and services has costs built by the price of natural gas and/or oil. Additionally, Biden' actions  have upped the price of natural gas and oil and the increased profits have allowed Russia to launch its current costly endeavor against Ukraine. In other words, Biden has helped pay for this.

       Biden needs to reverse his war on oil and natural gas as it has no real purpose in both the long or short run. We can supply liquid natural gas to Europe at a much cheaper cost as it costs us far less to raise it. This would prevent Russian blackmail and extortion of NATO. American and Europe energy independence from Russian hydrocarbons would reduce Russia's hard currency and ability to make war.. Russian oligarchs, who keep Putin in power would not be happy. It would then be Putin that would fall victim to his own perfidy.

      If Biden or his successor has any real chance of successfully running for president again, he must turn America's energy back on. He currently has only about 35% of support by Americans and it will continue to drop as inflation spirals out of control and our allies complain bitterly.