The argument that Obama is either a Russian agent or an idiot

Barack Obama came into office looking to be Vladimir Putin’s BFF. One of his first actions in office was to scrap a proposed missile shield for Eastern Europe. During his 2012 re-election campaign, Obama had declared that the Taliban was decimated, He had already declared the war in Iraq over, and ISIS was the JV.

He lied about every one of them. Then he went on to vigorously defend Russia.

During one of the debates, Mitt Romney named Russia as the number one geopolitical foe. In response, Obama scolded Romney for his naive view:

The Cold War is over. The 80’s want their foreign policy back. Russia was no threat. That wasn’t the end of it. Obama promised to be more flexible for Putin:

That still wasn’t the end of it. obama learned of Russian meddling in US elections in 2015– at least- and did not one thing about it (Until after the election).

And that’s still not all.

The US does not have enough uranium

Two Colorado-based uranium producers on Tuesday jointly asked the US Department of Commerce to investigate uranium imports that they said threaten national security, saying uranium from state-owned and state-subsidized companies in Kazakhstan, Russia and Uzbekistan fill nearly 40% of US demand while domestic production meets less than 5%.

“The domestic uranium mining industry needs US government assistance to survive the foreign onslaught — particularly from Russia and Kazakhstan — that has undermined the US uranium industry while new players — particularly China — will soon make the situation worse,” Energy Fuels and Ur-Energy said in a petition they jointly filed with the department.

Despite that, the obama administration, including Hillary Clinton, decided that it would be a good idea to sell control of 20% of US uranium to Vladimir Putin. Some key points:

• Investors with ties to Uranium One and UrAsia donated millions to the foundation in 2010 and 2011. These donations were disclosed. In addition to this, Bill Clinton was paid $500,000 to speak in Moscow in June 2010, the same month that the Russians closed the deal for the majority stake in Uranium One. The speaking fee was one of Clinton’s highest, according to The Times.
• The concern was American dependence on foreign uranium. The Times notes that while the US “gets one-fifth of its electrical power from nuclear plants, it produces only around 20% of the uranium it needs, and most plants have only 18 to 36 months of reserves.”
• Four members of Congress signed a letter expressing concern over the deal, and two others drafted legislation to kill it. One senator contended that the deal “would give the Russian government control over a sizable portion of America’s uranium production capacity” as well as “a significant stake in uranium mines in Kazakhstan.” The Nuclear Regulatory Commission made assurances that the US uranium would be preserved for domestic use regardless of the deal.
• Final say over the deal rested with the foreign investment committee, “including Mrs. Clinton — whose husband was collecting millions of dollars in donations from people associated with Uranium One,” The Times notes.
• After the deal was approved in October 2010, Rosatom’s chief executive, Sergei Kiriyenko, said in an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin: “Few could have imagined in the past that we would own 20% of US reserves.”

And money poured into the Clinton Foundation.

The FBI had a “racketeering and strong-arming” investigation ongoing while this deal was being made and information about it was suppressed so as not to nix the deal.  Worse, the deal made with Russia may have included shutting down US competition:

In July 2009, however, the acting director of the BLM proposed a study to determine if it were “appropriate” to close the area to mining to protect the Grand Canyon. The area was closed for two years and the study began. In July 2011, before the agencies completed the study, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar ordered an “emergency withdrawal” and then six months later withdrew the entire area from all mining for 20 years. Oddly, his new grab bag of reasons was not listed in the BLM’s application, nor was it supported by underlying documents. Finally, he took pains to destroy the validity of the valuable claims held by scores of small miners represented by the Mountain States Legal Foundation.

Was it purely coincidental that, in mid-2011, with the Uranium One deal completed the previous October, Salazar, a friend of the Clintons, saw yet another reason to kill uranium mining in Arizona for decades? Did others help? John Podesta, Bill’s former chief of staff and Hillary’s 2016 campaign manager, was “the hidden hand involved in every environmental advancement accomplished in the Clinton and Obama administrations,” says top Clinton official Bruce Babbitt of Arizona.

To date no one has explained why this deal – compromising national security- went down or how it could possibly be a good idea in the interest of the US.  Today democrats are screaming about what a bad guy Putin is, but it was Obama and Clinton engineered a deal that would make the US more dependent on Russia and Putin-owned assets and give Putin control of the world uranium supply chain. It still amuses me that Putin became a bad person to the left only after Hillary lost the election.

In retrospect, Obama’s actions (and Clinton’s as well) are either those of a Russian agent- or an idiot.

DrJohn

DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 30 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 30 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter on her way into the field of education.

DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.

Except for liberals being foolish.