The U.S. has been urging Ukraine not to attack Russian oil refineries, reportedly worried that strikes worsen the war and drive up energy prices.
But some Republican lawmakers wonder if the plea has more to do with President Joe Biden’s reelection than with energy strategy, and that he is putting politics over U.S. and Ukraine security.
“It sounds to me that the Biden administration doesn’t want gas prices to go up in an election year,” Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., told Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin during a hearing last week, the Washington Post reported.
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