Hillary Clinton’s Uranium Giveaway to Russia Is About to Bite Us
BY Herschel Smith
1 month ago
The only US-based commercial enrichment facility is located in New Mexico and is owned by Urenco Ltd, a British, Dutch, and German consortium. (Also: “Urenco,” really? Did nobody who speaks English bother to sound that out before they slapped the name on the company letterhead?) The Biden administration did what it always does and threw money at the problem with “a multibillion-dollar effort to restart the nation’s domestic uranium enrichment capabilities,” according to a Just the News staff report, but Urenco expects only a 15% increase by 2027.
Urenco supplies about one-third of America’s enriched uranium for reactors, but a 15% increase on one-third won’t make up for a potential 25% shortfall from Russian suppliers.
How’d we become so reliant on Russia?
John Solomon and Steven Richards reported for Just the News late Monday night that “It’s the latest fallout from a series of foreign policy decisions crafted by Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton that inexplicably strengthened Putin’s ability to wage economic warfare with energy supplies such as natural gas and uranium.”
“[The] United States used to produce its own nuclear materials for bombs and then for nuclear energy, and it was the Clinton administration they made this deal with the Russians way back in the 90s to purchase all of this down blended material from, you know, the decommission nuclear warheads from Russia,” Seamus Bruner, co-author of “Fallout: Nuclear Bribes, Russian Spies, and the Washington Lies that Enriched the Clinton and Biden Dynasties,” told Solomon on Monday.
There’s much less call for domestic enrichment when the supplies come from overseas. Giving Russia control of our unprocessed uranium boosted Russian enrichment facilities at the expense of our own.
Bruner called it a “tough spot” that Obama, Biden, and Clinton put us in. “There’s no way,” Bruner said of our domestic producers, “they’re going to catch up.”
I told you so. Seven years ago, I did.
On November 21, 2024 at 2:09 am, Georgiaboy61 said:
None dare call it treason…. well, I do!
That whole crowd, Obama, the Clintons, Biden, all of them are plainly guilty of treasonous conduct. The Clintons back in the 1990s gifting GPS technology to the Chi-Com regime; Biden giving away some of our most-advanced military tech to the Taliban (and hence, Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, the PRC and Russia); the Clintons again during the Obama years with their uranium deals… it never ends, does it?
The bad news is that they may get away it, the whole lot of them, for the simple reason that we now live in an age when “treason” and “honor” are forgotten terms.
Well, maybe the new government set to come to power next January can do something about that. I’m not holding my breath; I am too cynical for that and have been burned too many times in the past – but I’d love to be surprised in a pleasant way by seeing the guilty parties indicted. But knowing Washington, a.k.a. the swamp, I doubt any major players will be sacrificed. In that town, the principles never take the fall; that’s what the underlings are for.
On November 21, 2024 at 10:32 am, george 1 said:
The U.S. has done this to nearly all of our industries. In the case of the uranium deals it is a bit more convoluted but the same result.
We usually just offshore the industry and the financiers make more money that way. The semi-conductor business is a good example. We offshored manufacturing to Asia and now we are getting left behind. Biden again throws billions of dollars at the problem but we will still be behind because a competitive business like chip manufacturing can’t operate with DIE policies and other retardery.
On November 22, 2024 at 5:18 am, Joe Blow said:
If we’d hang just a handful of these treasonous cowards live on national tee vee, I do believe the problem would self correct.