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It’d like what was said about education. If a foreign nation was forcing us to doing this, it would be seen as an act of war.<\/em><\/p>\n

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BLUF:
\nAnd Biden? His woke national-security and foreign-policy B-team seem more eager to subsidize electric cars for the rich than to provide cheap oil and gas to the American middle class or to deter America\u2019s adversaries.<\/p>\n

Team Biden seeks to stop yet another pipeline even as gas prices rise.<\/a><\/p>\n

If you needed any more proof that the anti-American, pro-Russia, pro-Iran, pro-China, anti-Israel wing of the Democrat Party has captured the White House flag, last week we learned\u00a0Team Biden plans to put the kibosh<\/a>\u00a0on a natural-gas pipeline with US involvement that would reduce Europe\u2019s dependence on Russian energy.<\/p>\n

The Eastern Mediterranean Gas Pipeline, which would carry Israeli and Cypriot natural gas, is yet another energy resource serving America\u2019s strategic interests that the Biden White House wants gone. EastMed joins a long list that started on Day One with the\u00a0Keystone XL\u00a0<\/a>pipeline,\u00a0a ban on oil and gas leases<\/a>\u00a0on public lands and the October federal court ruling that ended drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.<\/p>\n

All these actions, demanded by \u201cclimate change\u201d alarmists, have reversed America\u2019s long-sought energy independence won at great political cost by President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

They have not only made us dependent once again on foreign oil; they have sent\u00a0oil prices skyrocketing<\/a>, enriching America\u2019s adversaries in Russia and Iran.<\/p>\n

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The Trump administration\u00a0backed<\/a>\u00a0the $7 billion EastMed pipeline, a project of Israel, Cyprus and Greece, well before it was signed in January 2020. The 1,200-mile-long pipeline would bring 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Israel\u2019s Leviathan and Tamar offshore to Europe, offsetting supplies that otherwise would come from Russia. Plans called for doubling capacity in future years.<\/p>\n

US oil major Chevron is the main operator of the Israeli gas fields. And thanks to the Abraham Accords that opened trade and diplomatic relations between Israel and four of its Arab neighbors, the United Arab Emirates\u00a0bought a 22% stake<\/a>\u00a0in the Tamar field from Israeli interests in May.<\/p>\n

But Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan sought to undermine the deal from the start. His foreign ministry\u00a0called it<\/a>\u00a0\u201cthe latest instance of futile steps, aiming to exclude Turkey and the [Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus] from the region. Any project disregarding Turkey . . . cannot succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Erdogan sent warships and deep-sea exploration vessels to put teeth into that threat, conducting military patrols in disputed waters between Greece and Turkey. In December 2019, he signed an agreement with the disputed government in Tripoli, Libya, that created a \u201cmaritime corridor\u201d between Turkey and Libya that essentially\u00a0cut off Israel from any access<\/a>\u00a0to Europe.<\/p>\n

So Erdogan flexed his muscles at both Israel and Cyprus \u2014 and Team Biden\u2019s move is to reward him.<\/p>\n

The State Department sent its newly minted adviser for global energy security, Amos Hochstein, to Israel in November to give a heads up on the administration\u2019s plans to ditch support for the pipeline.<\/p>\n

And this month, it quietly\u00a0sent a \u201cnon-paper\u201d<\/a>\u00a0to the government of Greece, which leaked to the Greek and\u00a0Turkish<\/a>\u00a0press, warning that the pipeline posed a security threat to the region. The US embassy in Athens finally clarified the American position: \u201cWe remain committed to physically interconnecting East Med energy to Europe,\u201d\u00a0its statement read<\/a>, but \u201care shifting our focus to electricity interconnectors that can support both gas and renewable energy sources.\u201d<\/p>\n

Funny: The president didn\u2019t have a problem giving waivers to Russia\u2019s non-green pipeline to Europe, Nord Stream 2.<\/p>\n