On Thursday at the White House, U.S. President Joe Biden responded to Russia cutting off energy supplies to the U.S. allies Poland and Belarus, which happened on Wednesday. “These actions prove that energy is not just a commodity” to Russia, “but a weapon,” said Biden, adding that Russia would not be able to “…blackmail their way out of these sanctions.”
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