{"id":245055,"date":"2022-03-08T10:59:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T16:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=245055"},"modified":"2022-03-08T10:59:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T16:59:31","slug":"biden-announces-ban-on-russian-oil-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=245055","title":{"rendered":"Biden Announces Ban on Russian Oil Imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest developments on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/russia-ukraine\">Russia-Ukraine war<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Washington \u2014 President Biden announced Tuesday that the U.S. is \u201ctargeting the main artery of Russia\u2019s economy\u201d by banning imports of Russian oil, the latest sanction intended to punish Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not be part of subsidizing Putin\u2019s war,\u201d he said in the Roosevelt Room at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s announcement came amid rising pressure from Democrats and Republicans, and it reflects a willingness to accept the political risk of rising gas prices to economically retaliate against Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefending freedom is going to cost,\u201d Biden said. \u201cIt\u2019s going to cost us as well in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although Biden has tried to work in concert with European allies, he acknowledged that many are not announcing a similar ban because they\u2019re more reliant on Moscow for oil and gas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we can take this step when others can not,\u201d he said. \u201cBut we\u2019re working closely with Europe and our partners to develop a long term strategy to reduce their dependence on Russian energy as well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest developments on the\u00a0Russia-Ukraine war: Washington \u2014 President Biden announced Tuesday that the U.S. is \u201ctargeting the main artery of Russia\u2019s economy\u201d by banning imports of Russian oil, the latest sanction intended to punish Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine. \u201cWe will not be part of subsidizing Putin\u2019s war,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":232304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-usnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245056,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245055\/revisions\/245056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/232304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}