President Joe Biden announced 500 new sanctions on Russia on Friday to punish the nation for the war in Ukraine and the death of opposition leader Aleksey Navalny in prison.
But strangely, in yet another act of war against Russia for matters that are none of the United States’ business, Biden excluded certain individuals from the punitive measures.
And they just happen to be tight as a tick with his son, Hunter Biden, and just happen to have lined the Boy Wonder’s pockets with millions. One of them dined twice with the Big Guy himself.
The Sanctions
Biden said he had imposed the sanctions for “Russia’s ongoing war of conquest on Ukraine and for the death of Aleksey Navalny, who was a courageous anti-corruption activist and Putin’s fiercest opposition leader.”
As well, the dementia-stricken president said:
These sanctions will target individuals connected to Navalny’s imprisonment as well as Russia’s financial sector, defense industrial base, procurement networks and sanctions evaders across multiple continents. They will ensure Putin pays an even steeper price for his aggression abroad and repression at home.
We are also imposing new export restrictions on nearly 100 entities for providing backdoor support for Russia’s war machine. We are taking action to further reduce Russia’s energy revenues. And I’ve directed my team to strengthen support for civil society, independent media, and those who fight for democracy around the world.
The list of private individuals and companies is reported at the Treasury Department’s website. Previous sanctions are here.
Though Biden apparently believes the United States should risk a nuclear war over the death of a Russian politician, he did nothing about the murder by medical neglect of Gonzalo Lira, an opponent of Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky.
Lira’s jailers directed other prisoners to torture him unmercifully, including by scratching the cornea of his left eye. Biden and his ballyhooed secretary of state, Antony Blinken, did nothing.
All political opponents are equal, but some are more equal than others, one must assume.
More Help for Hunter
Lira’s murder and Biden’s push for an unnecessary war aside, the New York Post found that Biden omitted Hunter Biden’s Russian business cronies from his list.
And they were cronies who just happened to stuff his pockets with plenty of rubles.
Reported the Post:
Two Russian billionaire pals of Hunter Biden were again spared from being hit by financial sanctions as President Biden announced his latest round of penalties on numerous Vladimir Putin-connected figures Friday.…
Though some 500 Russian oligarchs, companies and third-country sanctions evaders were hit, real estate developer Yelena Baturina and Vladimir Yevtushenkov again skated free of winding up on the list.
Billionairess Baturina, deceased Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov’s widow, sent $3.5 million to Rosemont Seneca Thornton, a company Hunter owned with partner Devon Archer. She was to invest $120 million in Rosemont Realty, another Hunter-linked company.
President Joe Biden twice dined with Baturina at Café Milano; once in 2014 and again in 2015.
As for Yevtushenkov, Hunter met him twice, his famous laptop showed.
“Yevtushenkov’s sprawling business empire, Sistema, owns Russia’s largest cellphone provider, MTS, and until 2022 also owned Russian rocket and radar-maker RTI and military drone-maker Kronstadt,” the Post reported:
Yevtushenkov is believed to be worth about $1.7 billion and in 2022 reduced his ownership in Sistema to 49.2% — apparently in response to UK sanctions — by giving his son Feliz 10% of the company.
“I think he should be sanctioned,” Michael McFaul, a former US ambassador to Russia under President Barack Obama, told The Post last year. “I don’t understand why he has not been.”
The Real Russia Collusion Scandal
As The New American reported when the Biden-Baturina link was disclosed, that was the real Russia collusion scandal, not the hoax conceived by Hillary Clinton and her gang with the enthusiastic help of hate-Trump FBI agents.
Indeed, Clinton OK’d that smear campaign, as Special Counsel John Durham found out when he unsuccessfully prosecuted Clinton campaign torpedo Michael Sussmann for lying to the FBI. Sussmann was acquitted not because he was innocent, but because the jury forewoman didn’t believe lying to federal agents was a big deal.
Outgoing President Barack Obama knew about the hoax, as did his communist CIA chief, John Brennan. And the CIA knew the claims about Trump’s links to Russia were false.
But Biden’s links to a Russian oligarch who sent millions of dollars to his son are clear: He met her twice.
