Americans are reeling from surging gas
prices, food prices, and the price of rent – all of which have steadily risen
since the start of the pandemic. US President Joe Biden has chosen to blame
Russian President Vladimir Putin for the situation, dubbing it “Putin’s price
hike” – but people aren’t buying it.
In addition to mile-high inflation, the US
economy risks stagnating as consumers are unable to pay the higher costs of
basically everything from gas to essential groceries. The logistical supply
chain crisis and shortage of transportation workers – already serious issues
exacerbated by pandemic-era lockdowns and movement restrictions – haven’t
helped matters.
Biden, who ran
on the promise to “always choose to unite rather than divide,” is
trying to unite Americans in common cause against Russia, which he blames as
the source of all of the problems ailing the United States – even ones that
cropped up well before the conflict in Ukraine, and ahead of Biden’s sanctions
on the Russian economy.
And he’s doing this all the while
condemning Republicans and their “ultra-MAGA” plan to “raise taxes on
working families.” So much for unity.
Days after announcing the sanctions in
March in support of Ukraine, Biden bragged that “as a result of our
unprecedented sanctions, the ruble was almost immediately reduced to rubble.”
“The Russian economy is on track to be cut in half,” he continued. “It was ranked the 11th biggest economy in the world before this invasion – and soon, it will not even rank among the top 20.” The prediction didn’t age well, as the ruble swiftly rebounded and is now worth more than it was even prior to the conflict.
“Right
now, America’s fighting on two fronts,” acknowledged
Biden at a recent appearance. “At home, it’s inflation and
rising prices. Abroad, it’s helping Ukrainians defend their democracy and
feeding those who were left hungry around the world.”
Biden, who
insists that Ukraine’s problems belong to American taxpayers, has pledged to
provide Ukraine with an additional $40 billion in funding, all while average
Americans struggle with a plethora of ongoing crises that affect them more
directly than some conflicts on a different continent.
Despite
Biden’s blame game and efforts to conduct a proxy war against Russia, Americans
aren’t buying his excuses. A recent poll conducted by the Democracy Institute for Express.co.uk found that some
56% of likely voters disapproved of the president’s handling of foreign policy,
compared to 40% who approve. On the topic of Ukraine, only 38% approve of
Biden’s policies.
“Americans were very pro-sanctions at first, [but] they are not as keen on the sanctions as they were,” Democracy Institute Director Patrick Basham told the Express. “Biden made these predictions at the outset – the ruble would be rubble, we were going to crash the Russian economy, people will rise up, Putin will be out, the Russians will run away from Ukraine… [but] none of those things have happened.”
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Indeed, Biden faces disapproval on all
fronts, and many Americans don’t agree with his preoccupation with Ukraine.
Only 16% of those polled perceived Russia as the most significant “threat” to
the United States, well behind China, Iran, and even North Korea.
Biden’s policies are causing a resounding
backlash on Democrats, who were already polling poorly for their support of the
“defund the police” movement, bail reform, Critical Race Theory, and other
domestic issues that have exacerbated social divisions in the United States.
Around 50% of those surveyed said they’d
back the Republicans in the midterms, compared to 42% who said they’d vote for
the Democrats.
Following Biden’s disastrous withdrawal of
US forces from Afghanistan, which saw billions of dollars worth of American
gear abandoned to the Taliban and the deaths of over a dozen service members,
Americans are rightly cynical about Biden’s ability to make good decisions. Was
Putin behind the pullout, too?
As Americans struggle with record gas prices, which are up by over 50% since Biden took office, the president continues to reduce US production capacity by canceling oil drilling sales in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico – further compounding America’s dependence on foreign oil. Blaming Russia for this one just isn’t going to cut it.
At the rate Biden’s going, one might ask
if Putin is mind-controlling him into making every effort to crater the US
economy. You might even say that the US president suffers from Russian
Derangement Syndrome.
With all of the failures mounting up, it’s
a matter of time before a “Red Wave” during the November midterms washes away
the Biden administration’s catastrophic policies and paves the way for a leader
who is up to the task, whether it’s Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, or anyone else.
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