{{quotebox-float|"CDMedia wrote in the summer before the 2020 election about Joe Biden, and his energy and gas genius son Hunter, meeting with Russian gas executives in the United States, weeks after Russia [[Ukrainian crisis|annexed the Crimean Peninsula]], and Obama/Biden were crowing in the news about how America needs to ‘get tough on Russia’....The ‘tough on Russia’ thing is a hoax. Biden just ensured billions of hydrocarbon revenue for the [[Kremlin]]. He just weakened the NATO alliance."<ref>https://creativedestructionmedia.com/analysis/2021/05/20/biden-is-not-tough-on-russia-quite-the-opposite/</ref>}}
{{quotebox-float|"CDMedia wrote in the summer before the 2020 election about Joe Biden, and his energy and gas genius son Hunter, meeting with Russian gas executives in the United States, weeks after Russia [[Ukrainian crisis|annexed the Crimean Peninsula]], and Obama/Biden were crowing in the news about how America needs to ‘get tough on Russia’....The ‘tough on Russia’ thing is a hoax. Biden just ensured billions of hydrocarbon revenue for the [[Kremlin]]. He just weakened the NATO alliance."<ref>https://creativedestructionmedia.com/analysis/2021/05/20/biden-is-not-tough-on-russia-quite-the-opposite/</ref>}}
[[File:Download-2.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Vladimir Putin (left} [[Oleg Deripaska]] (right). [[Christopher Steele]] of the ''[[Steele Dossier]]'' was hired by Deripaska to lobby the Obama/Biden DOJ; [[Andrew McCabe]] then met with Deriapaska two months before the [[2016 presidential election|2016 election]].]]
[[File:Download-2.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Vladimir Putin (left} [[Oleg Deripaska]] (right). [[Christopher Steele]] of the ''[[Steele Dossier]]'' was hired by Deripaska to lobby the Obama/Biden DOJ; [[Andrew McCabe]] then met with Deriapaska two months before the [[2016 presidential election|2016 election]].]]
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Two scholars at the [[Atlantic Council]], the prominent foreign policy think tank that claims to staunchly oppose Russian influence, raked in nearly $3 million lobbying in favor of the Russian pipeline.<ref>https://freebeacon.com/national-security/atlantic-council-scholars-made-millions-lobbying-for-putin-backed-pipeline/</ref>