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War between Ukraine and Russia. After a cautious delay, Washington announced on Tuesday it was suspending imports of Russian oil, gas and coal. A counteroffensive that could cost the American president dearly.
Using Russia’s main leverage in the global economy as a weapon against Moscow’s authoritarian militancy: such is the resolution adopted by Joe Biden when he announced on Tuesday that he was suspending US imports of oil, gas and Russian coal by executive order. ‘We will not help subsidize Putin’s war’: Tuesday’s speech from the White House was supposed to be determined to deliver a ‘new powerful blow’ to the despot in response to the devastation sown from Kharkov to Mariupol. However, Biden has also taken a defensive stance on the dire economic and political implications of the decision—hence, no doubt, Washington’s cautious biding before committing to it.
Thus, when he reminds his fellow citizens that “the defense of freedom will have a price while in the United States,” the American president is well aware that it is up to him how the conservative opposition, consumers and the oil industry will hurry. present the addition in monetary, as well as ecological, electoral and symbolic forms. Despite this, he insisted, the 9,000 drilling concessions already authorized by the state remain untapped to this day by US crude oil producers making record profits. In fact, the expected aggravation of the global energy shock should, in his opinion, lead to an acceleration of policy in …