It will serve to demoralize nations that have come to rely on the US as a staunch ally, which is a central pillar of this administration’s foreign policy.
Washington, February 22 – White House officials acknowledged today that the president is exploring avenues to reward Russian aggression in Ukraine by following the formula that his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama did in 2016 with Iran: shipping billions of dollars in hard currency to the rogue regime, and thus to encourage further imperialism in a strategic region where such expansionism threatens important US allies.
Spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters today that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s current military incursions into Ukrainian territory, in addition to the occupation of several eastern regions of the country that began while Obama held office, has prompted Joe Biden to look for ways to duplicate Obama’s achievement regarding the mullahs of Tehran: remove sanctions, supply liquidity, and generally make life easier for a bad actor with a proven track record of attacking or intimidating neighbors who dare oppose the bad actor’s hegemonical ambitions.
“It’s one of several options the president is considering as we speak,” stated Psaki regarding pallets of cash to fly to Moscow in the dead of night. “Now that it looks like the option of not imposing sanctions on [Russian natural gas pipeline] Nordstream 2 cannot continue, the president has sought other paths to appeasement, surrender, and abandonment of key allies that heralds more weakness down the road and invites continued aggression on the part of anti-American and anti-Western forces from China to Pakistan to Iran to Qatar and beyond. It will also serve to demoralize nations that have come to rely on the US as a staunch ally, which is a central pillar of this administration’s foreign policy.”
Experts noted that the resources and process for shipping billions in cash to a rogue regime will necessarily differ from those that President Obama exploited in 2016. “Six, seven years ago, we had on hand frozen Iranian assets that by court order were to be used for payment in lawsuit judgments to victims of Iran-sponsored terrorist attacks,” observed young-adult fiction author Ben Rhodes, a foreign policy advisor to Obama at the time. “Obviously, we took those monies, stacked them on pallets, and flew them to Europe and thence to Tehran. But with Russia thigs are likely to be a bit more complicated. For one thing, we don’t have frozen Russian assets to embezzle. That means taking the money from somewhere else, probably an infrastructure project that we Democrats have been touting as crucial for the economy and long-term sustainability and equity. But it could also just come from another deficit increase. Everyone loves those, even Republicans.”
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