Trump Was Right: Europe’s Reliance On Russian Oil and Gas Emboldened Putin

The Democrat propagandist media has cranked its spin cycle up to eleventy as Bumbles Biden shambles off to his Delaware basement while Ukraine’s president stands shoulder to shoulder with his fellow Ukrainians as they fight the Russian invasion of their  country.

If these weren’t such dark times, it would be rather amusing how completely wrong Democrats and their media stenographers continue to be about President Trump.  They are busily swooning onto their fainting couches over Trump reportedly stating that he thought the war-mongering Putin was “smart” to take “over a country for $2 worth of sanctions.”

Anyone who has listened to President Trump blast Russia, China, and / or try to reason with the Europeans/NATO knows that this is a comment not about how “smart” Putin is but about how incredibly, unbelievably, shamefully weak and feckless Biden is.

As Trump later explained (via the Wall Street Journal):

In a telephone interview with Fox News late Wednesday night, as Russia launched its invasion, Mr. Trump called the unfolding events a “very sad thing for the world and the country.” He said Mr. Biden hadn’t done enough to dissuade Mr. Putin from invading.“He was going to be satisfied with a piece and now he sees the weakness and the incompetence and the stupidity of this administration,” Mr. Trump said on Fox News on Wednesday night.

Trump supporters got that immediately, of course, before he spelled it out for them.

The woke partisan media, though, can’t help themselves.  Everything that is wrong in the entire world is all down to Orange Man Bad.

There was nothing (well, except slavery) in the U.S.  prior to 2016, and they just keep going after him despite his rather clear, quite extensive record of presciently spelling out exactly what is happening now, why, and why it wouldn’t be happening if he were in the White House.

The latter sentiment is shared by the majority (62%) of American voters who have watched the Biden train wreck presidency with near disbelief and increasing horror.

Funny how the left conveniently forgets that while Trump was in the White House, Putin kept his grubby KGB thug paws off of Ukraine.  He didn’t even test the waters as China did with Taiwan (only to be stopped in its tracks, too, by Trump).

President Trump reportedly told Putin that if he invaded Ukraine while Trump was in the White House, Trump would “hit Moscow.”  Putin, a man not unaccustomed to looking powerful men in the eye and taking their measure, believed him.

Further, Trump repeatedly warned the Europeans not to become reliant on Russia for their oil and gas.

The absolutely clueless, geopolitically naive Germans thought Trump’s warning was a laugh riot.

They’re not laughing now, nor will they be as Ukraine (and maybe Swedish and Finnish) refugees flood into their Russia-reliant, utterly clueless leftist lunatic asylum of a country.

Trump did try to stop the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as a private citizen and former president.

The Washington Examiner reported last month:

Former President Donald Trump conveyed a warning to Russian President Vladimir Putin through a Senate intermediary Friday against an invasion of Ukraine.Sen. Lindsey Graham shared a “pretty stunning and, I think, appropriate” comment from Trump following what Fox News host Sean Hannity said was a “lengthy” meeting.”He said Putin is realizing that Biden’s weak, but he doesn’t realize that Biden won’t be around in 2024. So President Trump said today if they invade Ukraine, the Russians, it will make it impossible for any future president to have a normal relationship with Russia,” the South Carolina Republican said.Graham added that he thought this “was a pretty damn wise observation.”

And so it was. But it was not enough. Putin saw the reports of a “well-funded cabal of powerful people” who conspired to take Trump down, and he bet that they would succeed again.

And all along the way, leftist, Democrat, and #NeverTrump infotainment hyenas cackle their ignorance, bias, and hypocrisy for all the world to see.

Not only did Trump deter Putin from his feverish dreams of reconstructing the Soviet empire under Trump’s watch, but he also tried to warn Europe against positioning themselves (in no small part through their own idiotic “green” pipe dreams) as almost entirely reliant on Russia for their nations’ energy.

They got the same call Obama did from the ’80s. And were too incredibly short-sighted and self-satisfied with their ‘enlightened’ regressivism to realize that history really does repeat and that it’s wise to learn those lessons the first time . . . so you don’t have to relearn them forty years later.

But some people never learn. I’m not sure if the left is stupid or if they think we are (or both), but they honestly appear to think that as long as WE aren’t drilling for oil or natural gas, we “win” the climate virtue signaler of the decade award. Of course we still need oil and gas, so we’ll just “redistribute” our wealth . . . to one of the richest countries on earth. Because enviro-equity. Or something.

Trump was right. About all of it.

While Biden huddles in his Delaware basement sipping from his slurpy cup and murmuring about how much he likes to smell little girls’ hair, Ukraine’s president takes up arms beside his countrymen to protect their freedom from Russia’s steamrolling totalitarianism.

An American president is the one person who could have prevented this nightmare for Ukraine and the world, and it looks like we have the wrong one.

Tags: Donald Trump, Russia, Trump Administration, Ukraine

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