{"id":1610802,"date":"2022-08-17T14:01:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T18:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1610802"},"modified":"2022-08-17T14:02:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T18:02:07","slug":"biden-was-warned-of-russias-war-in-october-yet-he-didnt-prepare-for-the-putin-price-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-was-warned-of-russias-war-in-october-yet-he-didnt-prepare-for-the-putin-price-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Was Warned Of Russia\u2019s War In October, Yet He Didn\u2019t Prepare For The \u2018Putin Price Hike?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-was-warned-of-russias-war-in-october-yet-he-didnt-prepare-for-the-putin-price-hike%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1610802&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A new report undermines the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/biden-administration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden administration\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0claims that nobody could have prepared for the so-called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/inflation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Putin Price Hike<\/a>\u201d and resulting supply chain issues caused by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/vladimir-putin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s<\/a> invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2022\/08\/16\/ukraine-road-to-war-takeaways\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>, \u201cIn the Oval Office in October 2021, President Biden\u2019s top advisers presented him with Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s war plans for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.\u201d The report was based on data researched by the intelligence community.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, for his part, has long blamed the war for the record-high inflation that America has experienced for nearly the entirety of 2022. He\u2019s dubbed it the \u201cPutin Price Hike.\u201d (We\u2019ll humor him for a moment and pretend that is true and that his disastrous government spending isn\u2019t to blame)<\/p>\n<p>Folks in his administration like Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo have claimed the inflation was entirely unpredictable and that Biden was beset by events outside of his control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think anyone predicted Putin\u2019s war in Ukraine, or various other things that have happened that have been unexpected,\u201d Raimondo\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/jun\/05\/biden-commerce-secretary-inflation-crisis\">said<\/a> in June.<\/p>\n<p>Yet it would appear that actually, everybody with authority on the matter with Biden\u2019s ear predicted the war.<\/p>\n<p>That would beg the question of why did his administration not begin preparing for the energy crisis, food shortage, and other supply-chain issues that undoubtedly would pop up from Putin\u2019s invasion?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ideally, his team would have prepared for one of the worst-case scenarios short of World War III or the use of nukes \u2014 a long drawn-out war with no end in sight. The administration would have cut back on spending, perhaps raised interest rates, and worked to ensure access to alternative sources of energy.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the current state of the economy, alongside Raimondo\u2019s words, it is evident that they took no such preparation. As the saying goes, failing to prepare is preparing to fail.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this is not the first time that the current administration has been caught flatfooted and late to the ball on an emerging crisis. A similar thing happened with the baby-food shortage that is still plaguing Americans. Top members of the Biden administration were warned of a supply shortage in late 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/top-biden-official-claims-administration-knew-about-baby-formula-shortage-last-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to Health and Human Services chief Xavier Becerra. Yet for some reason, the Biden team did not start acting on the problem until late spring.<\/p>\n<p>A key part of the administration\u2019s solution, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/whole-new-level-of-stupid-crenshaw-levels-biden-for-begging-opec-while-crushing-american-oil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">similar to the energy crisis<\/a> supposedly imposed by Putin, has been to rely on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-admin-flying-baby-formula-in-from-switzerland-as-crisis-continues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">foreign powers for shipments of baby formula<\/a>. That pattern does not imbue much confidence that Biden\u2019s team can handle whatever else lay just beyond the horizon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, what Biden rarely mentions is that inflation was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/white-house-warns-of-extraordinarily-elevated-inflation-blames-putin\">skyrocketing<\/a> prior to Putin\u2019s invasion. The \u201cPutin Price Hike\u201d only came after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/im-sick-of-this-stuff-biden-complains-that-the-american-people-believe-increased-government-spending-causes-inflation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his excessive government spending<\/a> and his discouragement of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-pain-is-the-point-energy-secretary-blasted-after-saying-summer-gas-prices-were-going-to-be-rough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fossil fuel investment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, it is entirely evident that the Biden team could have prepared for the fallout of the invasion in October 2021, yet they didn\u2019t, resulting in economic calamity for most Americans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report undermines the Biden administration\u2019s\u00a0claims that nobody could have prepared for the so-called \u201cPutin Price Hike\u201d and resulting supply chain issues caused by Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. On Tuesday, The Washington Post reported, \u201cIn the Oval Office in October 2021, President Biden\u2019s top advisers presented him with Russian President Vladimir &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1611073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1610802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1610802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1611073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}