{"id":598673,"date":"2021-07-21T07:06:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T11:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=598673"},"modified":"2021-07-21T07:06:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T11:06:19","slug":"biden-admin-pushes-ukraine-to-keep-quiet-on-russian-pipeline-not-discuss-with-u-s-congress-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-pushes-ukraine-to-keep-quiet-on-russian-pipeline-not-discuss-with-u-s-congress-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Pushes Ukraine To Keep Quiet On Russian Pipeline, Not Discuss With U.S. Congress: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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-admin-pushes-ukraine-to-keep-quiet-on-russian-pipeline-not-discuss-with-u-s-congress-report%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=598673&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BidenTB-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Democrat President Joe Biden\u2019s administration reportedly is strong-arming Ukraine to stay silent about a deal that it is expected to announce with Germany on Wednesday that will allow Russia to complete its highly controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden administration will set aside Washington\u2019s longstanding opposition to the pipeline, Nord Stream 2, in a reversal of U.S. policy, ending years of speculation over the fate of the project, which has come to dominate European energy-sector forecasts,\u201d The Wall Street Journal&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/u-s-german-deal-on-russian-natural-gas-pipeline-expected-soon-11626813466?mod=hp_lead_pos3\">reported<\/a> on Tuesday afternoon. \u201cGermany under the agreement will agree to assist Ukraine in energy-related projects and diplomacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later in the evening, a separate report indicated that the Biden administration is pushing Ukraine to stay silent about \u201cits vociferous opposition\u201d to the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/07\/20\/us-ukraine-russia-pipeline-500334\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"17\">\n<p><em>The U.S. officials have indicated that going public with opposition to the forthcoming agreement could damage the Washington-Kyiv bilateral relationship, those sources said. The officials have also urged the Ukrainians not to discuss the U.S. and Germany\u2019s potential plans with Congress. A senior administration official disputed this reporting, noting that the situation is more nuanced than that, but declined to share further details on U.S. officials\u2019 talks with their Ukrainian counterparts. \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The administration\u2019s position is at odds with much of Congress and with the Ukrainian government and other Eastern European allies, who have long held that U.S. intervention can still block completion of the pipeline, which is nearly completed.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The report noted that a source close to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine believes that Biden could stop the pipeline if he really had the will to stand up to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unbalanced and unfair that Russia gets a huge reward and Ukraine is flogged over criticism,\u201d Alina Polyakova, president and CEO of the Center for European Policy Analysis, told Politico, noting that \u201cit\u2019s 100 percent true that if Trump did this\u201d there would be a major meltdown by the media and U.S. politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Rebeccah Heinrichs, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, noted on social media that Biden bowing to Putin undermined his \u201cdemocracy over autocracy\u201d rhetoric.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.4935064935065\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So how exactly does telling Ukraine to keep quiet to Congress about its vehement opposition to the Russian energy pipeline fit into Biden\u2019s \u201cdemocracy over autocracy\u201d schtick<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rebeccah Heinrichs (@RLHeinrichs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RLHeinrichs\/status\/1417610191865065476?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cBiden has framed his foreign policy as democracy versus autocracy. It\u2019s pretty rich,\u201d Heinrichs told The Daily Wire in a statement. \u201cHe lumped Poland- Poland!- in with authoritarian governments and he waved sanctions on Nord Stream 2 which helps one of the most brazen and aggressive autocracies, Russia, that threaten representative governments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurthermore our own Congress opposed waiving sanctions, and so did Ukraine, which the Biden administration reportedly instructed to stop criticizing the Russian pipeline,\u201d she added. \u201cSo much for democratically chosen decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/now-theyre-spooning-cruz-unloads-on-biden-for-u-s-german-deal-over-russian-pipeline\">unloaded<\/a> on Biden over reports that the U.S. was going to announce a deal with Germany to allow the pipeline to be finished.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the reports and details of a deal are accurate, this will be a generational geopolitical win for Putin and a catastrophe for the United States and our allies,\u201d Cruz said. \u201cPresident Biden is defying U.S. law and has utterly surrendered to Putin. Decades from now, Russian dictators will still be reaping billions from Biden\u2019s gift, and Europe will still be subject to Russian energy blackmail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe always knew Biden was in bed with Putin, now they\u2019re spooning,\u201d Cruz added.<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat President Joe Biden\u2019s administration reportedly is strong-arming Ukraine to stay silent about a deal that it is expected to announce with Germany on Wednesday that will allow Russia to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598673","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\/598673","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=598673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}