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"The Russian Federation has repeatedly offered to the United States and its allies to limit training activities and to divert exercise areas from the line of contact between Russia and NATO. We consider the actions of the US Armed Forces in Estonia provocative and extremely dangerous for regional stability (...) What signal from NATO members want to send us? Who is actually fueling tensions in Europe? And all this is taking place in the context of an aggravated political situation in that region of the European continent. Rhetorical question: how would the Americans react if such shooting were carried out by our military near the US borders?".
Joe Biden's 'not banning fracking' defense, explainedYes, he "misspoke". He surely wasn't just cynically saying what he thought voters wanted to hear.
What happened when Biden says he misspoke about his fracking position
Biden was in a heated debate in March with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) about this. Sanders and other liberal powerhouses want to ban all fracking, which is in line with what many climate change activists want.Sanders: "I'm talking about stopping fracking as soon as we possibly can. I'm talking about telling the fossil fuel industry that they are going to stop destroying this planet โ no ifs, buts and maybes about it."Biden was wrong about his own proposal then. As The Washington Post's Salvador Rizzo fact-checked at the time: "The Biden campaign said that he misspoke and that his position was the same as ever: He would issue no new fracking permits for federal lands or waters, while allowing existing fracking operations to continue."
Biden: "So am I."
Sanders: "Well, I'm not sure your proposal does that."
Biden: "No more โ no new fracking."
The campaign points to half a dozen other times in the past year when Biden has explicitly said he won't ban fracking. As far back as a town hall in September 2019, he declined to endorse a ban. "His position has never changed and certainly didn't change today," Biden spokesman Andrew Bates told The Fix on Monday.
Comment: Estonia, it seems, has made a deal with the Western devil - irrationally setting itself against Russia - much, ultimately, to its own detriment. See also: