Former Trump Energy Secretary Rick Perry blasted the Biden administration who he says gave Russian President Vladimir Putin “leverage” by killing American energy efforts and “rubber-stamping” the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in Europe.
“#Putin got an assist from incompetent world leaders who propped up #Russia while risking their own energy security,” the former Republican governor of Texas tweeted. “By killing the #KeystoneXL pipeline and rubber stamping NS2, the Administration increased Russia’s leverage over global energy markets, which got us here.”
In a second tweet, Perry explained that “It didn’t have to be this way.”
“The United States can rescue Europe from a looming energy crisis by opening the Keystone XL pipeline and exporting US LNG to provide Europe with a reliable energy supply so they don’t have to rely on #Russia,” Perry tweeted.
Perry has been joined by several Republican politicians and conservative pundits across the country in calling out the Biden administration for clamping down on oil and gas energy production in the United States which they say has benefitted Russia.
“It has never been more clear that robust American energy production is essential to our economic and national security—and to combatting the enemies of freedom around the world!” Virginia Congressman Bob Good tweeted Thursday.