Of course. The junta cannot be at fault.

So after a year of trying to defang domestic energy companies, the White House - whose Fed Vice Chair candidate Sarah Bloom Raskin even went so far as suggesting to starve energy companies of capital - is now asking producers to raise oil supply to replace Russian crude flows after Biden banned oil imports from the country.

In other words, while yesterday it was Putin's fault, now it is the fault of shale companies according to an administration that will always find blame anywhere it looks except its own devastating policies.