The drill seems to be Biden says something, which is followed by some kind of clarification by the "white house". But, the president is the "white house".

If the president is not the "white house", who exactly is the "white house"...?

Unbelievable.

The people in “charge” are amateurs. The US has become more and more a laughing stock to the world.

I've said before, the biggest risk to the US out of this proxy war with Russia is the end of the petro-dollar.

It seems like they want it both ways:

Did the Globalists Just Flinch on Russian Sanctions in Order to Keep Control of Global Climate Change Goals?

Something odd is happening in the background of the G7 energy ministers’ announcement earlier today.

Here is an encapsulation of what’s weird, and you don’t have to be an expert in geopolitics and international trade to see it:
The G7 countries (including the U.S.) announced today they were demanding that Russia accept payment for oil and gas in euros and dollars. This is happening at the same time NATO is demanding (via sanctions) that Russia be blocked from accepting payments in euros and dollars.

Something is weird. Keep in mind, the same nations in the G7 are the same nations in NATO with the exception of Japan (G7 only).

The only way this conflict could make any sense, is if the G7 energy ministers realize that forcing Russia to trade in non-euros and non-dollars will structurally undermine the G7 unilateral hold of global finance and energy policy. In essence, the G7 see the non-sanction countries, particularly India and China, lining up to replace the petro-dollar, and that not only weakens their position financially, but it also weakens their climate change position.

https://theconservativetreehou...e-goals/#more-230729

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t is always important to remember the ultimate goal of the ‘climate change’ promotors is not an energy system that changes the global climate. The goal of the ‘climate change’ group is to create a carbon trading system; a new financial mechanism (a global tax program) to control human activity on a world-wide basis. This system also needs a digital identity in order to work.

As a consequence, when we look at the fracturing of the global energy marketplace, it is worth viewing the divided group through the prism of the globalist carbon trading scheme.

Its important to see that the people who inhabit the G7 are quite different than those sitting in their respective country's NATO seats. As pointed out, the G7 are globalists, ambitious economists who've drunken the green-energy revolution Kool-Aid with their domestic & foreign office colleagues, this war is a nuisance. Their NATO counter-parts are ostracized in their diplomatic/political hierarchy; the German admiral who was fired for musing about respecting Putin several months ago....well, there's now a hot-war going on just down the street. Those G7 clowns are still trying to unravel the natural gas/green energy knot they tied themselves up into now.

After their attack on Kiev stalled for weeks, followed by successive effective Ukrainian counterattacks in the area over the past few days, the Russians have just announced that they're "scaling back military operations near Kiev to increase trust during the peace negotiations process".

Yeah, that's the ticket... We weren't defeated and forced back... We voluntarily pulled back out of sheer good will.

From https://apnews.com/article/rus...0a05c14914bb9f4ef0b0

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Russia’s military announced Tuesday it will “fundamentally” scale back operations near Ukraine’s capital and a northern city, as talks brought the outlines of a possible deal to end the grinding war into view.

Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin said the move was meant to increase trust in the talks after several rounds of negotiations failed to halt what has devolved into a bloody campaign of attrition.

The announcement was met with skepticism from the U.S. and others.

While Russia portrayed it as a goodwill gesture, it comes as the Kremlin’s troops have become bogged down in the face of stiff Ukrainian resistance that has thwarted President Vladimir Putin’s hopes for a quick military victory. Late last week, and again on Tuesday, Russia seemed to roll back its war aims, saying its “main goal” now is gaining control of the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he had not seen anything indicating talks were progressing in a “constructive way,” and he suggested Russian indications of a pullback could be an attempt by Moscow to “deceive people and deflect attention.”

“There is what Russia says and there is what Russia does, and we’re focused on the latter,” Blinken said in Morocco. “And what Russia is doing is the continued brutalization of Ukraine.”

He added, “If they somehow believe that an effort to subjugate only the eastern part of Ukraine or the southern part of Ukraine ... can succeed, then once again they are profoundly fooling themselves.”

Fomin said Moscow has decided to “fundamentally ... cut back military activity in the direction of Kyiv and Chernihiv” to “increase mutual trust and create conditions for further negotiations.” He did not immediately spell out what that would mean in practical terms.

Ukraine’s military said it has noted withdrawals of some forces around Kyiv and Chernihiv. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told CNN “we haven’t seen anything to corroborate” reports of Russia withdrawing significant forces from around Kyiv. “But what we have seen over the last couple of days is they have stopped trying to advance on Kyiv.”

Rob Lee, a military expert at the U.S.-based Foreign Policy Research Institute, tweeted: “This sounds like more of an acknowledgment of the situation around Kyiv where Russia’s advance has been stalled for weeks and Ukrainian forces have had recent successes. Russia doesn’t have the forces to encircle the city.”

Chairman Xi Just Made a Big Move, China Announces They Will Keep Purchasing Crude Oil and Gas From Russia

https://theconservativetreehou...and-gas-from-russia/

Joe Biden said the western alliance would target any country that violated the sanctions against Russia. Specifically, after a lengthy telephone call with Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping on March 18th: “President Biden made clear the implication and consequences of China providing material support, if China were to provide material support to Russia, as it prosecutes brutal war in Ukraine,” the senior administration official said, “not just for China’s relationship with the United States, but for the wider world.”

Today, ten days later, China just called Joe Biden’s bluff.

China announces they will violate the western sanctions and continue to purchase crude oil and gas from Russia.

HONG KONG — Chinese state energy company Sinopec will continue to buy crude oil and gas from Russia, a top executive said on Monday, even as Western democracies step up sanctions in response to the country’s invasion of Ukraine.

The company, known formally as China Petroleum and Chemical, is involved in two major projects in Russia: an oil and gas production joint venture called Taihu in the Volga-Ural petroleum basin in western Russia with state-owned peer Rosneft, and the development of the Amur gas chemical complex and processing plant with Sibur in the Russian Far East, adjoining China.


Sinopec holds a 10% stake in privately owned Sibur.

During his company’s annual results call on Monday, Sinopec President Yu Baocai noted that it bought both crude and gas from Russia last year.

“We will also continue to do so in accordance to commercial principles and international trade regulations in the future with all trading partners in order to develop normal oil and gas trading cooperation,” he said.

Yu provided no figures, but said the buying is in line with the company’s strategy of “diversifying import sources.” Key considerations, he said, include supply types, price, transport costs, tariffs and supply stability.

Referring to Sinopec’s projects in Russia, Yu said that both are “operating stably in general for the time being, and there are no indications of impairment.” (read more)

As far as geopolitical chess is concerned, Chairman Xi just put Joe Biden in ‘check.’

There is no way Joe Biden is going to challenge or confront Xi Jinping directly. However, the intent of the western alliance to change the landscape of economics, trade and finance for the rest of the world is now directly being tested. We can also look at this like China testing NATO.

The West is playing Checkers with a handicapped participant instead of Chess with real leaders.

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Originally posted by chellim1:
is an encapsulation of what’s weird, and you don’t have to be an expert in geopolitics and international trade to see it:
The G7 countries (including the U.S.) announced today they were demanding that Russia accept payment for oil and gas in euros and dollars. This is happening at the same time NATO is demanding (via sanctions) that Russia be blocked from accepting payments in euros and dollars.

And the much simpler, more obvious and more logical possibility that they're standing up for their rights under international contracts in order to put the squeeze on Russia somehow doesn't make sense? I think the Conservative Treehouse is getting a little breathless here.

Oh my… They’re gonna do exactly what they said they were going to do 3 months ago.

25th amendment until we get to somebody who can prevent this forthcoming disaster. 2023 is going to be a mess if we don’t get a miracle.

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Originally posted by SIGnified:
Oh my… They’re gonna do exactly what they said they were going to do 3 months ago.

25th amendment until we get to somebody who can prevent this forthcoming disaster. 2023 is going to be a mess if we don’t get a miracle.

Yep, and we've still got 3/4 of 2022 to deal with.

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And the much simpler, more obvious and more logical possibility that they're standing up for their rights under international contracts in order to put the squeeze on Russia somehow doesn't make sense?

See, that's the thing:
The G7 can't even speak for the companies who have the contracts.

And what's China Joe going to do about it? Nothing. The CCP owns him and Hunter and can leak evidence of their past corruption at any time.

If the U.S. sanctions China, they can cut Apple off from all of it's production facilities. They can grind U.S. manufacturing to a standstill by refusing to ship parts and components. They can jack up the prices of things they export to the U.S. to jack our inflation even higher.

They are playing to win and be the top dog, not to be second place or cooperate in a tie.

And notice how idiot Biden just blurted out that the 82nd Abn is training Ukrainian soldiers in Poland?

Hello, Joe? OPSEC?

Then again this was the same moron who outed SEAL Team VI and got some of them killed.

Stupid motherf*cker is going to screw this all up.

White House Clarifies Joe Biden’s Claim U.S. Troops Training Ukrainians in Poland

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...g-ukrainians-poland/

The White House on Monday attempted to clarify what President Joe Biden said to reporters about Americans training Ukrainian troops in Poland.

During a question and answer session with members of the media at the White House, Biden responded to a question concerning his remark last week about what U.S. service members would see in Ukraine, “when you’re there.”

“You’re going to see, when you’re there, and some of you have been there, you’re going to see women, young people, standing in front of a damn tank…” he said.

But when asked Monday to explain what he meant, Biden said he was only talking with American troops about training the Ukrainians in Poland.

“I was talking to the troops. We are talking about helping train the troops in – that are in – the Ukrainian troops that are in Poland,” Biden said. “That’s what the context [was].”

“I was referring to being with and talking with the Ukrainian troops that are in Poland,” he added later in his remarks.

But the White House had to walk that back, after Politico reported on the exchange.

“There are Ukrainian soldiers in Poland interacting on a regular basis with U.S. troops, and that’s what the President was referring to,” a White House official said, clarifying Biden’s remarks.

If the United States is actually training the Ukrainian people, it would be a major development for the United States in the ongoing conflict between Poland and Russia.

Biden has repeatedly discussed American troops being deployed to Poland, but only to bolster NATO defenses, not to take an active role in Ukraine’s defense against Russia.

In December, Politico reported that Biden turned down a plan from the United States military to send in special operations personnel to Ukraine to advise and train the Ukrainians.

The Biden team nixed the idea over concerns of escalating tensions with Russia.

The idea of American troops in Ukraine is not uncommon.

In February, before Russia escalated its war, the Pentagon announced its decision to withdraw 160 members of the Florida National Guard who were in Ukraine training their military.

JFC...they now have to "walk back" every word out of this clown's mouth

So he made a gaff, then he lied to walk it back but the lie was its own gaff that had to also be walked back? My scorecard is getting messy.

Obama said there's nothing special about America and Biden's proving it.

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JFC...they now have to "walk back" every word out of this clown's mouth

Its even worse than that. Biden talks out his azz, the White House clean up crew immediately leaps into action and tries to walk his asinine comments back, then Biden hits a podium the next day and states he isn't walking 'any' of it back. Europe is left scratching its head and terrified, while Russia, China and Iran are laughing their azzes off and making huge gains against the US. Every damn Biden voter owes us a fricking apology!