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Actually, the Federal Reserve, through its agents implanted within our own govement, along with the ever present compromised elected folk, has an extremely heavy hand in the direction and in every operation of our Nation. Including any and all energy policies. The Federal Reserve does profit handsomely from the war in Ukraine. They may not send the money directly to Ukraine, nor purchase and ship the weapons, but the money created through them, adding to our Nation's debt, goes to finance all of it.
These evil Synagogue of Satan worshipers work on a very long timeline. The destruction and theft of our Nation's resources and individual labors began a long long time ago.
"I don't doubt that the federal reserve is a large part of our problem, but don't let Joe Biden and both political parties off the hook." It's not Biden, nor the parties as a whole, that are running, ruining, this Nation. Hasn't been such for a long long time. As unpopular it is to say, and yet is the truth, it is the dual citizens that are running, ruling, our Nation.
As far as being energy independent? More of the machinations of the Fed. The Federal Reserve, the private international bankers, do not want an independent United States. Simple as that. In addition to OPEC wanting not to continue to take the continuing devalued dollars. BTW. Don't think for a minute that these OPEC nations do not understand what our Federal Reserve and our fiat currency is all about. But, as they say, they've been literally "under the gun", forced, to accept the US dollar as trade for their oil/gas/energy. With this understanding, they use those excess dollars to buy our treasury bonds, (as part of the back room deal), and to purchase our lands, real estate, business and the like with those extra dollars. Just like what China does. That's what these so called, sovereign wealth funds, consisting of excess US dollars, in each respective country, are used for. To buy us out.
Until that elephant in the room, the privately owned central bank known as the Federal Reserve, is shot and buried forever, nothing, absolutely nothing, will change in this Nation.