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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-3321886622329668614"},"published":{"$t":"2022-04-06T01:14:00.000-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-04-06T01:21:33.621-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Russia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Ukraine"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Ukraine Demands Everyone Else Boycott Russia While Making Billions From Russian Gas"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Nearly every major American and European company has imposed its own form of sanctions on Russia even if they sometimes consist of pointless virtue signaling for the social justice set.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELego announced a pause on shipments of toy bricks to Russia. Nike has closed all its stores preventing Muscovites from purchasing $75 t-shirts made by Vietnamese slave labor. Airbnb will no longer rent dachas, Netflix won’t allow Russians access to its library of social justice pedophilia, and Blizzard has announced Russians can’t battle orcs in World of Warcraft.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi4QxnhBunWKomQe8h7EUucWNJv2GWv-OXYTrxQA4YughMgBZiIJm5vVtW13WAPeKKCRoHPhJ4t959y8nBOM9MviCUU6kohIgoggWDIildtY-Q-vcgdosLi6dYf3agUdc9CyYsE7xKO4Fk5txeOV1H_s4Uk425NkTLhjN2tEvVWltIHwtqSZXs\/s961\/image_2022-04-05_221712.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"570\" data-original-width=\"961\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi4QxnhBunWKomQe8h7EUucWNJv2GWv-OXYTrxQA4YughMgBZiIJm5vVtW13WAPeKKCRoHPhJ4t959y8nBOM9MviCUU6kohIgoggWDIildtY-Q-vcgdosLi6dYf3agUdc9CyYsE7xKO4Fk5txeOV1H_s4Uk425NkTLhjN2tEvVWltIHwtqSZXs\/s320\/image_2022-04-05_221712.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EIt’s unclear that denying Russians access to Disney+ or Hitachi TVs will end the war. The average Russian has less say in his country’s politics than the average Disney employee. And if Vladimir Putin really wants a pair of Nike cleats or a chance to watch The Batman then, like other sanctioned tyrants, he will have plenty of options for getting hold of them anyway.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe sanctions have even escalated into cultural boycotts of Russian artists, performers and writers, including those who, like Dostoevsky, are long dead.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVolodymyr Zelensky has virtually toured world governments urging harsh sanctions on Russia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EZelensky demanded that the Senate ban Russian oil imports and revoke Russia's most favored nation status. According to Alaska's Senator Dan Sullivan, Zelensky argued that \"stopping the purchase of Russian oil and gas around the world would be one of the most powerful sanctions possible.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn his virtual session with the Japanese parliament, Zelensky told legislators that it was “necessary to remove companies from the Russian market so that money does not go to the Russian army.” In his abrasive address to Israel's Knesset, the leader of a country that remains a\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2022\/03\/ukrainian-chutzpah-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E major trading partner of Iran\u003C\/a\u003E stormed, “Why has Israel refrained from sanctions on Russia? Israel needs to give answers to these questions and after that, live with them.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA more elementary question may be why is Naftogaz, Ukraine’s state owned gas company, continuing to transport millions of cubic meters of Russian gas to Europe each month.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne answer is that Russia continues paying billions to Ukraine to transport its gas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUkraine earns about $2 billion in transit fees from the Russian use of its pipelines to move gas to Europe. Russia, and Putin’s cronies in particular, obviously make even more than that.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERussia cashes in an estimated \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/articles\/frequently-asked-questions-on-energy-security\"\u003E$400 million a day\u003C\/a\u003E from its gas exports to Europe.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E$400 million a day would buy a whole lot of Lego bricks, Netflix fees, and Nike sneakers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Ukrainians claim that they would love to cut off the flow of Russian gas, but the Europeans are dependent on it. And the Europeans promise to build more windmills and solar panels to eventually one day kick the Russian gas habit, but it’s exactly that kind of green nonsense that addicted them to reliable energy supplies from Russia and helped bring on the current war.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile Americans are expected to accept higher prices while Ukraine’s state-owned company collects billions from Russia. Zelensky stages Zoom calls with foreign governments accusing them of funding the Russian military if they don’t pull out of Russia while enabling Putin’s regime to make hundreds of millions of dollars a day. That’s a little awkward.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“If Europe continues importing gas from Russia, why shouldn’t Ukraine benefit from it?” asked an expert quoted in a media story spinning the situation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Russia is going to continue to watch bad movies, why shouldn’t we benefit from it?.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe European-Ukrainian hypocrisy has Russia and Ukraine making billions while Americans are expected to shoulder the burden of higher prices on everything from gas to wheat.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile Russia’s state-owned energy company is paying Ukraine’s state-owned energy company in “hard currency”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWithout the\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.pipeline-journal.net\/news\/russian-natural-gas-still-flowing-through-ukraine-europe\"\u003E energy exports\u003C\/a\u003E, Russia “wouldn’t be able to finance the current war, pay salaries to its soldiers and all the crowds currently supporting Putin. It will immediately impact the regime’s support, which is why they don’t want to disrupt this revenue stream,” Naftogaz's CEO said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWouldn’t that be a more useful form of sanctions than boycotting Dostoevsky?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUkraine does have the ability to cut off the flow of Russian gas any time it wants. Naftogaz claims that the Russians would just use other pipelines, but then why aren’t they doing it now?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy is Russia paying billions to a country it’s invading that can be used to finance its defense?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy would Russia put its economic lifeline and massive amounts of gas at risk by using a country that it’s currently bombing with all the adroit aim of a drunk in a toilet as a transit point if it could be easily replaced? Neither Europe nor Ukraine are prepared to kick their addiction to Russian gas. Putin knows it, which is why behind the scenes business is going on as usual.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe pettiness of the sanctions and the cultural boycotts are a distraction from the reality that it’s easy to pour some vodka down the drain or skip the ballet, but a lot harder to stop the gas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEurope’s support for Ukraine is conditioned on the flow of Russian gas through the country.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPutin understands that very well which is why he's demanding that Germany and other European countries pay him for gas in rubles. Considering that the Europeans have already paid Russia some 13 billion dollars for his gas since the war began, he's calling their bluff.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile Ukraine's energy people keep urging everyone else to boycott Russian energy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENaftogaz's CEO had told BBC News that Europe \"should make this very clear choice to get rid of this dependency on Russian gas and oil.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENaftogaz's former head met with Senate members and told them that Putin believes that \"the energy supply is so important to the West\" that \"they’ll always be forgiven, that Western countries will crawl back on their knees asking for their oil and gas.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe’s got a point, but Ukraine has the power to change that. All it has to do is pull the plug.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEurope and Ukraine are asking Americans to make sacrifices while they keep on doing business with Putin.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\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\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\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\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/3321886622329668614\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/ukraine-demands-everyone-else-boycott.html#comment-form","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3321886622329668614"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3321886622329668614"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/ukraine-demands-everyone-else-boycott.html","title":"Ukraine Demands Everyone Else Boycott Russia While Making Billions From Russian Gas"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi4QxnhBunWKomQe8h7EUucWNJv2GWv-OXYTrxQA4YughMgBZiIJm5vVtW13WAPeKKCRoHPhJ4t959y8nBOM9MviCUU6kohIgoggWDIildtY-Q-vcgdosLi6dYf3agUdc9CyYsE7xKO4Fk5txeOV1H_s4Uk425NkTLhjN2tEvVWltIHwtqSZXs\/s72-c\/image_2022-04-05_221712.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$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":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-8018608680365544210"},"published":{"$t":"2022-03-28T01:43:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-03-28T01:43:00.339-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"immigration"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Russia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Ukraine"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Stop the Russian Invasion of America"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"While the Biden administration is focused on protecting the borders of Ukraine from Russia, some 8,600 Russians have shown up at our border with Mexico since last August.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot to be left too far behind, 5,534 Ukrainians have also arrived since October.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELast December, two cars carrying 18 Russian migrants tried to barrel their way through at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. A CBP officer opened fire on a Mercedes driven by the invaders.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYouTube is full of guides for Russians looking to get into the United States through Mexico.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi-i7OLnCxpdUXsIaoEOJ9Osjwp0moYQbExzDrrufPwCO37EyMsVnjuzS--VpNbWg8VEd7aIleSU2O507qmRKPNJpS1x_aqQqxlpYxC-6oZ_BagWfPC91LCFM_Mu9-dMU_f4vsJn_wDbdd_NezbdvRLzcjakRTZoFtZSEyLdXpSyqULqNaFK_I\/s662\/image_2022-03-27_211139.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"441\" data-original-width=\"662\" height=\"213\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi-i7OLnCxpdUXsIaoEOJ9Osjwp0moYQbExzDrrufPwCO37EyMsVnjuzS--VpNbWg8VEd7aIleSU2O507qmRKPNJpS1x_aqQqxlpYxC-6oZ_BagWfPC91LCFM_Mu9-dMU_f4vsJn_wDbdd_NezbdvRLzcjakRTZoFtZSEyLdXpSyqULqNaFK_I\/s320\/image_2022-03-27_211139.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EIn \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1Pd7m8Rvv7I\"\u003Eone video\u003C\/a\u003E, a man with Asiatic features wearing a Russian Army shirt directs his video to all Russians, describes how he made it to San Diego after a previous failed attempt in which they discussed trying to evade CBP and race to the border crossing, and advises that if you don't leave Russia with a \"commanda\", close friends, relatives, \"like in the army\", it won't work well.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe suggested that in immigration detention around 70% were Russian speakers, \"Ukranians, Belarusians, Russians, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Make a decision and make a run for it, in a fraction of a second,\" he advises. \"And it'll be what will be. Even if they catch you, nothing will happen to you.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat ought to be the motto of the Biden Administration’s open borders immigration policy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s why there are encampments of Russians and Ukrainians in Mexico demanding asylum.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDid Putin invade Tijuana while no one was looking? If he tried, a heroic resistance of cartel members with machine guns mounted on Toyota pickup trucks would have sent Russian troops, already suffering from dysentry, alcohol poisoning, and six different kinds of STDs, packing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow exactly did a town worth of Russians and Ukrainians pop up in Mexico? They flew there. And they didn’t do it to buy hundred peso Rolexes made in China but because they know that if they come up with a timely sob story about fleeing the latest crisis, we’ll let them in.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd it’s working.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording to the AP, of the 8,600 Russians \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/spectrumnews1.com\/ca\/la-west\/news\/2022\/03\/19\/russians-are-blocked-at-u-s--border--ukrainians-are-admitted#:~:text=All%20but%2023%20were%20processed,a%20walkway%20to%20San%20Diego.\"\u003Ewho\u003C\/a\u003E invaded America, \"all but 23 were processed under laws that allow them to seek asylum.\" When Russians invade Ukraine, we send in the Javelin missiles. When Russians invade America, we throw a parade to welcome them in.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnly four of the Ukrainians who showed up since September were asked to leave.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEvery Russian who shows up now claims to hate Putin. But if loving Putin were grounds for asylum, they’d all come dressed in Putin t-shirts. The Ukrainians, regardless of where they live, including one who came from Uganda, claim to be fleeing the Russians. And they’re all fleeing each other to Mexico and demanding that we save them from each other. Right now.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Trump administration's Remain in Mexico policy was supposed to stop this kind of migrant tourism under which migrants from every single country in the world would fly to Mexico and show up at the border, demanding asylum.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAsylum from what? Mexican sunsets?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite the Biden administration's open borders plot, state lawsuits and court rulings led the policy to remain in force. Russians and Ukrainians flying halfway around the world to show up at our land border don’t have a credible fear of persecution in Mexico. They’re gaming the system.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“While Moscow to Cancún is the most common route, some Russians fly from Amsterdam or Paris to Mexico City and then go to Tijuana,” an expert relates. Is there a reason these folks can’t apply for asylum in Amsterdam or Paris? Having reached Paris, aren’t they now safe?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite Gov. Ron DeSantis suggesting, 'If (Putin) went into France, do you think they'd do anything to put up a fight? Probably not”, Paris hasn’t actually fallen again. Yet. It’s safe from Putin (albeit not so much from Algerian or Moroccan Jihadists shouting, “Allahu Akbar.”)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe United States does not share a border with either Ukraine or Russia. Despite that we’re being invaded anyway because the one border we aren’t allowed to protect is our own.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Putin wanted to invade America, all he would have to do is fly his forces into Tijuana International Airport (if we don't steal your luggage, it's because your clothes aren't good enough) and have all 150,000 conscripts apply for political asylum. Two days later they’d all be on buses heading around the country courtesy of the Lutheran Immigration Services, the Conference of Catholic Bishops, HIAS, and the beleaguered American taxpayer.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe wouldn’t even need to bring any tanks. We’ve already surrendered our border and nation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe AP informs us that one Russian \"narrated his trip from Moscow’s Red Square to a San Diego hotel room, with layovers in Cancún and Mexico City. His YouTube video shows him confessing to nerves after buying a used car in Tijuana, but he says later in San Diego that everything went smoothly – despite two days in US custody – and that others considering the journey shouldn’t be afraid.\" Maybe they should be afraid. At least just a little.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA few days ago, Biden announced another $800 million in security assistance to Ukraine.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EImagine what $800 million could do on our border. There still isn’t any money to build a border wall. Texas is shouldering the costs of deploying the National Guard to the border. Border personnel are still deprived of the resources they need to deal with the invasion of America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Ukrainians are entitled to secure their border. But why don’t Americans have that right?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnyone who has a legitimate fear of persecution and requires political asylum can file their requests for asylum. The vast majority of arrivals however are economic migrants. The Southern land border now sees a vast horde of international migrants from India, China, Russia, and every other part of the world who fly into Mexico, rent cars, and drive up for asylum.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOpen borders mean that we share a border with the entire world. And the world is showing up.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMaybe after spending billions securing Ukraine’s border, the Biden administration and some of its Republican open borders allies can give a thought to securing the border of a beleaguered nation being invaded by the Russians and by everyone else. A country called America.\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\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\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/8018608680365544210\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/03\/stop-russian-invasion-of-america.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8018608680365544210"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8018608680365544210"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/03\/stop-russian-invasion-of-america.html","title":"Stop the Russian Invasion of America"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi-i7OLnCxpdUXsIaoEOJ9Osjwp0moYQbExzDrrufPwCO37EyMsVnjuzS--VpNbWg8VEd7aIleSU2O507qmRKPNJpS1x_aqQqxlpYxC-6oZ_BagWfPC91LCFM_Mu9-dMU_f4vsJn_wDbdd_NezbdvRLzcjakRTZoFtZSEyLdXpSyqULqNaFK_I\/s72-c\/image_2022-03-27_211139.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-8382236550285620168"},"published":{"$t":"2022-03-21T02:00:00.002-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-03-21T15:59:17.903-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Israel"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Russia"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Ukraine"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Ukrainian Chutzpah"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EUkraine’s ambassador to Israel is not happy. Ambassador Korniychuk has demanded that Israel cut off all business dealings with Russia. Meanwhile Ukraine’s business dealings with Iran rose over 30% and reached nearly $2 billion. Iranian exports to Ukraine increased by 40%.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat means Ukraine is literally financing Islamic terrorism against Israel. And genocide.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgmN8ysd-wgX-Yb6c2sGmG8fJhm-wO7K0ZW4F2Wf8zBlqdf_DvY988jjBvQIw1QYX1CrsEzoTAilx2VerwHyUxuYBsQvmH0jyw2tnGR5Gy2bEnjvewn-OHEKxpWxzuN8ENXCuVWDydepRbVK-h_zy4K7Cn4nDPPWHsKTmyGufbZH6r0dVBMIRY=s652\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"432\" data-original-width=\"652\" height=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgmN8ysd-wgX-Yb6c2sGmG8fJhm-wO7K0ZW4F2Wf8zBlqdf_DvY988jjBvQIw1QYX1CrsEzoTAilx2VerwHyUxuYBsQvmH0jyw2tnGR5Gy2bEnjvewn-OHEKxpWxzuN8ENXCuVWDydepRbVK-h_zy4K7Cn4nDPPWHsKTmyGufbZH6r0dVBMIRY=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EIs Ukraine ready to stop all business dealings with Iran in exchange for Israel ending its business dealings with Russia? Don’t be silly. These demands only go one way.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUkraine's President Zelensky has repeatedly invoked the Holocaust in the influence campaign against the Russian invasion of his country. “What is the point of saying ‘never again’ for 80 years, if the world stays silent when a bomb drops on the same site of Babyn Yar?” he tweeted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA better question might be why is a country whose people were responsible for much of the killing of Jews at Babi Yar is shamelessly appropriating the Holocaust for its propaganda.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEspecially since Ukraine, like Russia, continues to finance the modern genocide of Jews.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDuring the Holocaust, Ukrainian nationalists participated in large numbers in the massacres of Jews. Including at Babi Yar. Rather than feel any sense of shame for this, Bandera and his thugs, who were responsible for the murder of tens of thousands of Jews, are national heroes and continue to be celebrated in Ukraine. Including by Zelensky.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Stepan Bandera is a hero for a certain part of Ukrainians, and this is a normal and cool thing. He was one of those who defended the freedom of Ukraine,\" Zelensky argued a few years ago.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou can wrap your cause in the Holocaust or celebrate Bandera, but you can’t do both.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Addressing all the Jews of the world: Don’t you see why this is happening? That is why it is very important that millions of Jews around the world do not remain silent right now,\" Zelensky recently demanded in a speech that was helpfully translated into Hebrew by his office.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat is happening in Ukraine is wrong, but it is not genocide. Unlike Nazi Germany and its Ukranian nationalist allies, the Russians are not marching tens of thousands of Ukrainian men, women, and children, stripping them, shooting them, and throwing them into pits. Nor, like Ukraine’s Iranian trading partners, is Russia plotting to drop nuclear bombs on its cities.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EConsidering the centuries of actual massacres of Jews by Ukrainian national heroes like Bogdan Chmelnitsky, Simon Petlura, and Stepan Bandera, (who have streets and medals named after them) the willingness of Israel to quickly rush aid and provide political support to Ukraine ought to be appreciated. Especially since it’s another wholly one-sided relationship.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIsrael voted in support of Ukraine at the UN despite the fact that Ukraine has repeatedly voted against the Jewish State and in support of the terrorists trying to kill Jews.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E'President Zelensky does feel a \"special emotion for Israel because his mother is Jewish,\" but that feeling has to be reciprocal,\" Ambassador Korniychuk was quoted as saying.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReciprocal? What exactly have Zelensky and Ukraine done for Israel?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELast year, a Ukrainian emissary suggested that if Israel were to provide his country with its defense demands, then it might agree to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s about it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEh3yXz6YAou4z5_C6MTDkIaxD4JlKnLBS3yqiGnRZLKPPZgUnO3tJSJlwJohfvZ39g7CS49XQbmutSmNuJM7D-2sh0P1d4q23QVwYO120ethr74829SF02a8mUBhGf8awblHck6acq0WhRt6veTdYbPyu5Z5XbmjfxHVp__T__SkSJe2P9PCDU=s945\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"561\" data-original-width=\"945\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEh3yXz6YAou4z5_C6MTDkIaxD4JlKnLBS3yqiGnRZLKPPZgUnO3tJSJlwJohfvZ39g7CS49XQbmutSmNuJM7D-2sh0P1d4q23QVwYO120ethr74829SF02a8mUBhGf8awblHck6acq0WhRt6veTdYbPyu5Z5XbmjfxHVp__T__SkSJe2P9PCDU=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EPresident Zelensky and Ambassador Korniychuk complain that Israel hasn’t been vocal enough in its opposition to Russia. When Israel was at war, how vocal was Zelensky?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Israel was last under attack, Zelensky tweeted, \"The sky of #Israel is strewn with missiles. Some cities are on fire. There are victims. Many wounded. Many human tragedies. It is impossible to look at all this without grief and sorrow. It is necessary to stop the escalation immediately for the sake of people's lives.\" Passive voice. No specific condemnation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstead of showing appreciation for the fact that Israel has gone out on a limb to support a country that is not an ally, but has repeatedly opposed Israel at the UN, and has extensive trade ties to Iran, Korniychuk has escalated his demands and tirades against the Jewish State.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmbassador Korniychuk has repeatedly berated Israel and Israelis for not doing enough. The latest acts of chutzpah include Korniychuk pushing the Israeli High Court to overrule a decision by the Israeli government on accepting Ukrainian migrants without any quotas, and demanding that the Israeli Knesset convene specifically to listen to a Zelensky speech.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPresident Zelensky is entitled to make the best possible case for his country. Ukraine is suffering from an invasion that threatens its national existence and it’s understandable that its government is frantically trying to push every possible button to avert that catastrophe.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWar propaganda is an exchange of lies. And we have witnessed Putin and Ukraine hurl accusations of Nazism at each other when in reality both sides collaborated with the Nazis. Both sides likewise insist that the other is part of a vast conspiracy and their defeat will lead to WWIII.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe cold hard reality is that both sides are spewing as many crazy lies as they can to win a war.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwo ex-Soviet countries with little going for them except energy resources are using their broken ex-Soviet militaries to fight over who gets the profits from those energy resources.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s entirely reasonable to sympathize with the Ukrainians who have been invaded.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration has chosen to express that sympathy by making it clear that we will not intervene militarily, but will pile on economic sanctions. That’s a move likely to inflict maximum economic pain on Americans with a minimal military impact on Russia. That’s convenient for Biden who can blame Putin for the disastrous economic situation in America without having to risk American casualties and the domestic political fallout from a war.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIsrael’s best bet however is to just stay out of a mess that really does not involve it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EZelensky happens to be of Jewish descent. A number of close allies of Putin also happen to be Jewish. That’s every bit as significant as the fact that both Trump and Clinton’s children have Jewish spouses. Or that China's only non-Chinese general was General ‘Two Gun’ Cohen.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s possible to admire Zelensky’s doggedness in the face of a massive invasion without bowing to him as a moral authority. He’s a very effective advocate for his country. And, like many people of Jewish descent who participate in antisemitic movements, he’s managed to reconcile the conflict by putting Ukraine first and mobilizing his Jewish ancestry in its defense.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMuch as Jewish leftists do with Muslim terrorism, or Jewish sympathizers who join far-right movements, Zelensky has puts his ‘Jewishness’ at the service of antisemites. And, unlike his willingness to embrace personal risk during the conflict, there’s little admirable about that.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUkraine has no historical claim on Israel’s sympathy. And only liberal Jews with no sense of history who know their great-grandparents came from Ukraine, but don’t know why they got the hell out would think otherwise. And there’s certainly no reciprocal alliance worth mentioning.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPutin’s Russia and Ukraine are both close trading partners of Iran. In addition, Russia supplies weapons and support for Iran. Both repeatedly vote against Israel at the UN. Both have an ugly history when it comes to Jews. They’re not allies or friends, they are at best friends of enemies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPrime Minister Bennett’s foolish attempts at acting as if he can mediate between Russia and Ukraine have done nothing to help either end the conflict or improve Israel’s image.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Ukrainians\u0026nbsp;were surveyed at the\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-689678\"\u003E end of last yea\u003C\/a\u003Er, 71% said that they did not support either side in the conflict between Israel and Iran. And there’s nothing surprising about that. Different countries with no shared borders, values, or interests don’t have to support each other.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe same is true for Israel in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.\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\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\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/8382236550285620168\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/03\/ukrainian-chutzpah.html#comment-form","title":"8 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8382236550285620168"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8382236550285620168"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/03\/ukrainian-chutzpah.html","title":"Ukrainian Chutzpah"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEgmN8ysd-wgX-Yb6c2sGmG8fJhm-wO7K0ZW4F2Wf8zBlqdf_DvY988jjBvQIw1QYX1CrsEzoTAilx2VerwHyUxuYBsQvmH0jyw2tnGR5Gy2bEnjvewn-OHEKxpWxzuN8ENXCuVWDydepRbVK-h_zy4K7Cn4nDPPWHsKTmyGufbZH6r0dVBMIRY=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"8"}}]}});