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Clinton"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Putin"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Russia"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Bill Clinton’s Corrupt Love Affair With Putin"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EBill Clinton, once the youngest governor in the country, now only four years younger than Biden, came out of the shadows with a defensive op-ed, titled, “I Tried to Put Russia on Another Path”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEis3IOGoBC83l5LQ5SYlnzg8U-7PLnYUmb3DJUsn3Y1I5yy5Om2vmLNyxq3_-nwUtZZ361fz-534IruP43h4ERW4R5M4Td2Gf4oIF9WMxVk9W8zwSArhxTBQE9yfQyiuBZFu7gOGLQ3tjBW2iYTDjeRJMjGBRxD7jxtkmFm4WAPqqc0WZ103OA\/s633\/image_2022-04-13_143520395.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"499\" data-original-width=\"633\" height=\"252\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEis3IOGoBC83l5LQ5SYlnzg8U-7PLnYUmb3DJUsn3Y1I5yy5Om2vmLNyxq3_-nwUtZZ361fz-534IruP43h4ERW4R5M4Td2Gf4oIF9WMxVk9W8zwSArhxTBQE9yfQyiuBZFu7gOGLQ3tjBW2iYTDjeRJMjGBRxD7jxtkmFm4WAPqqc0WZ103OA\/s320\/image_2022-04-13_143520395.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EWhile the Clintons, like Obama, fashionably embraced Putin-bashing when it served their agenda of inventing a Russia scandal as a pretext for discrediting the 2016 presidential election and spying on their Republican political opponents, Bill’s history tells a very different story.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn My Life, his 2004 memoir, Bill Clinton praises Putin and uses him to attack Republicans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter his first meeting with Putin, Bill Clinton wrote that he came away believing “Yeltsin had picked a successor who had the skills and capacity for hard work necessary to manage Russia’s turbulent political and economic life\" and the \"toughness to defend Russia’s interests\". He called Putin's appointment, which helped end democracy in Russia, a \"wise and shrewd move\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter Putin was elected, Bill Clinton recollects that he \"hung up the phone thinking he was tough enough to hold Russia together.\" Soon Clinton is using Putin to bash Republicans, sneering that \"even the Russian Duma was more progressive on arms control than the U.S. Senate\" and supporting Putin's refusal to hold off on the anti-ballistic missile treaty because \"Republicans had been enamored of missile defense since the Reagan era, and many of them wouldn’t hesitate to abrogate the ABM Treaty in order to deploy it.\" Putin good, Republicans bad.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy was Bill Clinton flattering Putin in his autobiography?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe memoir was published in 2004. In 2005, Bill Clinton and uranium tycoon Frank Giustra visited Kazakhstan and cut a deal for the company that would become Uranium One to buy into the country's state-owned uranium mines. Clinton foundations picked up over $100 million while Uranium One gobbled up uranium assets to eventually resell to Russia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe deal that allowed Russia's state-owned Rosatom to buy Uranium One was lubricated by millions more in donations to the Clinton Foundation and a $500,000 speaking fee from a Russian investment bank for Bill Clinton during which the former president \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2022\/03\/how-democrats-made-america-dependent-russian-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Emet with Putin\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis was Clinton’s actual corrupt vision for Russia. The Russiagate dirty tricks operation came out of a network of business interests plugged into the Kremlin. The executive at the heart of Russiagate was a Clinton aide who “frequently interacted with senior Russian Federation leadership\" and “set up meetings with senior Russian government officials” The dossier was touted by a lobbyist for a Russian oligarch close to Putin who had also employed both Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS: the tools for the attack on the 2016 election.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile we’ve heard about this often enough in the context of domestic corruption, the Clintons and their inner and outer circles were enthusiastic participants in the corruption of Russia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPutin was not an unfortunate detour from democracy, as Bill Clinton insists, but exactly the sort of man to perpetuate the corrupt system that the Clintons and their special interests wanted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe last thing the Clintons wanted for Russia was democracy and an end to the corruption.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBill Clinton complains that Putin “could have used Russia’s prodigious skills in information technology to create a competitor for Silicon Valley and build a strong, diversified economy. Instead he decided to monopolize and weaponize those abilities to promote authoritarianism at home and wreak havoc abroad, including by interfering in the politics of Europe and the U.S.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Clintons didn’t want a strong, diversified economy for America, let alone Russia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd it was the Clintons who got Putin involved in interfering in American politics. The millions funneled into Clinton foundations helped maintain staff and cultivate donors for Hillary’s presidential campaigns. And then Clintonworld figures used their Kremlin links to manufacture Russiagate and create the false narrative that Bill Clinton is still trying to keep alive.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn his op-ed, Bill Clinton touts the role of former Defense Secretary William Cohen. He neglects to mention that the Cohen Group, aside from its notorious ties to China, has boasted of \"decades of experience working with officials in Moscow\", and \"building relationships with government decision makers\". Two years ago, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2022\/03\/ukraine-shows-hating-israel-isnt-about-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003ECohen was claiming\u003C\/a\u003E that \"President Putin is going to try and step in and be the peacemaker here” between America and Iran.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBill Clinton defends former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Once again her Albright Stonebridge Group promised to advise clients how to do business in Russia by enlisting politically connected former Russian government officials. This is typical of Clintonworld.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnder Bill Clinton and his wife, Putin's regime became wealthier and more powerful as donors moved money into Russia and into the various Clinton enterprises including from \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-clinton-foundation-state-and-kremlin-connections-1469997195\"\u003Ea Putin-linked billionaire\u003C\/a\u003E who was sanctioned under Trump and has been sanctioned now yet again.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Clintons were complicit in enabling the dumping of \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2022\/03\/how-democrats-made-america-dependent-russian-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Echeap Russian uranium in America,\u003C\/a\u003E thereby destroying our domestic mining industry and funding Russia’s \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-clinton-foundation-state-and-kremlin-connections-1469997195\"\u003Emilitary industries\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBill and Hillary Clinton did not try to “democratize” Russia, rather political and business interests in both countries joined forces to cash in while corrupting both America and Russia. Democracy had made it difficult for foreign companies to pursue business interests in Russia. With Putin in power, surrounded by his ‘siloviki’, it was easy to know who to bribe in order to make a deal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the Clintons, with their connections, were a conduit for donors looking to make a deal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe problems only began when Putin, unsatisfied with controlling Russia’s economy, and those of a few allied former republics, began to expand his sphere of economic influence by force.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven at this late date, Bill Clinton is pretending that he was a benevolent public servant who was only thinking of what would be best for America, Russia, and the world, not the Clintons.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe ugly truth is that the Clintons led the way in corrupting and making the world less democratic. The fall of the Soviet Union had opened up opportunities to change the world that the Clintons transmuted into corrupt deals with oligarchies that swiftly became tyrannies. The springtime of the world that millions of Americans had struggled and fought for during the Cold War instead became an opportunity for our political class to score a few million here and there.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot only didn’t Russia and China become more democratic, but America came to resemble them. The corrupt entanglements of Hunter and James Biden, like those of the families of John Kerry, Harry Reid, Neil Bush, and other political class players sold out democracy for corruption.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHunter Biden with his prostitutes, Chinese billionaires, and crack habit is just the latest incarnation of the Clinton model in which our oligarchs and theirs do dirty deals together.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the world is a worse place for it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Before I left Moscow, Putin hosted a small dinner in the Kremlin with a jazz concert afterward,\" Bill Clinton recalled in My Life. \"John Podesta, who loved jazz as much as I did, agreed with me that we had never heard a finer live performance.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJohn Podesta's brother, Tony and his Podesta Group, went on to work for a Putin puppet and were shut down when they were caught up in a Russiagate investigation. Tony Podesta has since been \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/media-telecom\/huawei-paid-washington-lobbyist-podesta-1-million-sources-2021-10-28\/\"\u003Epaid $1 million\u003C\/a\u003E to lobby the Biden administration by China's Huawei which is now also playing a major role in Putin’s Russia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s a hell of a live performance. And they’ve got a hell of a band.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/4096758822501395504\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/bill-clintons-corrupt-love-affair-with.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4096758822501395504"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4096758822501395504"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/bill-clintons-corrupt-love-affair-with.html","title":"Bill Clinton’s Corrupt Love Affair With Putin"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEis3IOGoBC83l5LQ5SYlnzg8U-7PLnYUmb3DJUsn3Y1I5yy5Om2vmLNyxq3_-nwUtZZ361fz-534IruP43h4ERW4R5M4Td2Gf4oIF9WMxVk9W8zwSArhxTBQE9yfQyiuBZFu7gOGLQ3tjBW2iYTDjeRJMjGBRxD7jxtkmFm4WAPqqc0WZ103OA\/s72-c\/image_2022-04-13_143520395.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-636882218656439888"},"published":{"$t":"2022-03-31T13:19:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-03-31T13:19:25.125-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Bill Clinton"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"environmentalism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Hillary Clinton"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Putin"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Russia"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"How Democrats Made America Dependent on Russian Uranium"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Uranium prices have shot up by as much as 40% since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWith nuclear power providing about a fifth of our energy, this is another blow for Americans.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnfortunately our nuclear power plants are dependent on uranium imports from Russia and countries in its sphere of influence because our domestic mining industry was suppressed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhtbAr7Zju3IwTYhhFu0lOkx5Ek3-jIWjdFuxYkBCt2Ce7b-_FsG4538LuBpKKW9rPTfoRcavavRn_gJiB__t9tq0N6CftIkfDDLfz8nfoDblmGaVY6LKm_sNMJEd8sYAR5wdjRFYbM1g_CUBywqG7NEXHG7Nlum9lq8GSLmghjHT72v7mbOoQ\/s621\/image_2022-03-31_101914.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"470\" data-original-width=\"621\" height=\"242\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhtbAr7Zju3IwTYhhFu0lOkx5Ek3-jIWjdFuxYkBCt2Ce7b-_FsG4538LuBpKKW9rPTfoRcavavRn_gJiB__t9tq0N6CftIkfDDLfz8nfoDblmGaVY6LKm_sNMJEd8sYAR5wdjRFYbM1g_CUBywqG7NEXHG7Nlum9lq8GSLmghjHT72v7mbOoQ\/s320\/image_2022-03-31_101914.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EIn December 2016, on his way out the door, Barack Obama announced that he was inventing the Bears Ears \"National Monument\" on over a million acres of land. While California environmentalists celebrated, tens of thousands of locals bitterly protested the move.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBillboards and stickers reading #RescindBearsEars were plastered across Utah towns in the area that expected catastrophic consequences from the destruction of their livelihoods.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmong these was uranium mining.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA uranium mine in the area has the potential to yield 500,000 pounds of uranium. Miners warned that the Bears Ears monument would force us to rely more heavily on foreign uranium.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the Democrats, still busy blaming their election defeat on some sort of phantom Russian-Trump conspiracy, did not see any problem with making America dependent on Russia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Trump administration did not rescind Obama’s power grab, but did shrink the monument by over 80%. It was the latest battle in a long running war between Democrats looking to shut down mining in general and uranium mining specifically, and Republicans limiting, but not undoing the damage done by their abusive environmental regulations and power plays.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Clinton administration’s euphemistic “mining reform” push already devastated mining in America. As the Wall Street Journal noted at the time, mining firms were “leaving the United States with the blessings, if not open encouragement, of the Clinton administration.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd with the blessing of the Clintons, America became dependent on foreign resources.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1980, the United States had produced over 40 million pounds of uranium, but under the Clinton administration that number stood at less than 5 million. Now it's well below a million.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite efforts by environmentalists to shut down nuclear power plants and leave Americans reliant on expensive and unreliable Chinese solar panels and other scam green investment vehicles for their donor base, our nuclear plants, which unlike wind and solar are capable of delivering a reliable power supply, still went on needing uranium.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs domestic production virtually vanished, imports skyrocketed. Some 91% of enriched uranium used in nuclear power plants is imported from other countries. While Canada is a leading source of uranium imports, our largest source of uranium remains Russia combined with countries in its sphere of influence like Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. In 2020, we bought about 11 million pounds of Canadian uranium, 8 million pounds of Russian uranium, around 11 million pounds of Kazakh uranium, and about 4 million pounds of Uzbek uranium.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPutin recently intervened militarily to protect Kazakhstan's leader from opposition protests.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKazatomprom, the world's largest uranium producer, had partnered with Uranium One, a Canadian uranium mining company that the Clintons colluded to sell to the Russians (more recently, Uranium One was resold to an American company) and has close ties to the nuclear industries in Russia and China. Communist China is pushing aggressively into Kazakhstan to feed its growing appetite for nuclear power. And that will also limit our nuclear power options.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica has plenty of uranium but, like so many other resources, miners aren’t allowed to go and get it. That’s why we depend on China and the Taliban for the rare earths that go into our microchips, on Mexico for copper, and on Russia and its allies for our uranium.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica’s uranium industry used to provide tens of thousands of jobs. Now hardly any.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs Bill Clinton went to war against miners, the mayor of Moab, Utah \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/1993\/10\/20\/19071956\/reforms-could-make-mining-towns-go-bust-forever-mayors-warn-d-c\"\u003Epleaded\u003C\/a\u003E for respite.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We called ourselves the uranium capital of the world. It provided us with a high standard of living,\" he said. \"While we're proud of the tourism base, it cannot provide the standard of living that mining did. Moab needs the jobs that mining will create. It could come back. We still have plenty of low-grade uranium ore throughout the area. It will never come back if they pass this bill.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia environmentalists have been smugly lecturing locals in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming that they ought to forget about having good jobs that can provide them with a middle class life, and just be there to bus their tables and sell them keychains when they go on vacations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMuch as solar panel jobs are no substitute for coal jobs, tourism work is no substitute for mining.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the Clinton administration didn't manage to pass its preferred bill destroying the mining industry, it used administrative regulations to do as much damage as possible. In the last days of the corrupt administration, Bill Clinton issued a series of \"midnight regulations\" attacking American industries. And the mining industry was a major target of the administration.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile the Clintons were cheerfully suppressing mining in America, Putin was on the make.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the Clintons later colluded to allow Uranium One to be sold to Russia, Putin held a meeting with the head of  state-owned Rosatom. “Few could have imagined in the past that we would own 20 percent of U.S. reserves,” he told Putin.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Bill Clinton was paid $500,000 by a Russian investment bank that was promoting Uranium One for delivering a speech, he was personally thanked by Vladimir Putin.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis was only the final betrayal after the Megatons to Megawatts program signed by Bill Clinton which claimed that it would end the threat of nuclear war by taking retired Russian nuclear warheads and turning them into \"cheap energy\" for American nuclear power plants.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe deal, hailed at the time as a scheme to save the world, actually freed Russia from having to maintain its older nuclear weapons and instead enabled it to invest in next generation weapons, while dumping a great deal of \"cheap\" uranium that devastated the American mining industry.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt its peak, Russian uranium provided a third of our fuel. Bill Clinton not only went to war against domestic mining, but colluded to enable the Russians to dump cheap uranium here.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Russians didn’t just “dump” uranium to suppress our domestic mining industry, they did it with the blessing and support of the Clinton administration and some of its corrupt allies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnce again, the Americans thought that they had put one over the Russians, but it was the Russians who had the last laugh as we paid them to upgrade their nuclear weapons while becoming dependent on Russian uranium. As the saying occasionally attributed to Lenin goes,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMegatons to Megawatts wrapped up during the Obama administration. In 2018, Putin unveiled a new generation of nuclear weapons. Experts now worry that they may be used in Ukraine. And America has become dependent on uranium from Russia and from former Soviet republics.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe could revive our domestic uranium mining industry, but to do that we would have to dismantle the entire system of government and environmentalist lawfare that has been steadily destroying our domestic industries, including mining, under the guise of saving the planet.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Left claims to want to stop Putin even while making America and Europe dependent on him. Putin wants to leverage control over energy supply chains. If Democrats really want to stop him, then they need to throw out the corrupt Clinton policies, and start drilling and mining again.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/636882218656439888\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/03\/how-democrats-made-america-dependent-on.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/636882218656439888"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/636882218656439888"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/03\/how-democrats-made-america-dependent-on.html","title":"How Democrats Made America Dependent on Russian Uranium"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhtbAr7Zju3IwTYhhFu0lOkx5Ek3-jIWjdFuxYkBCt2Ce7b-_FsG4538LuBpKKW9rPTfoRcavavRn_gJiB__t9tq0N6CftIkfDDLfz8nfoDblmGaVY6LKm_sNMJEd8sYAR5wdjRFYbM1g_CUBywqG7NEXHG7Nlum9lq8GSLmghjHT72v7mbOoQ\/s72-c\/image_2022-03-31_101914.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}}]}});