Republicans, including some of the biggest recipients of fossil fuel campaign donations, are blaming Russias invasion of Ukraine on President Joe Bidens energy policies, citing the crisis to justify more oil and gas drilling at home.

In an interview Thursday with right-wing news outlet Newsmax, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) said Putin and other world leaders have watched Joe Biden as hes made decisions like stopping the Keystone [XL pipeline], ending drilling on federal lands things that really hindered the U.S.

Vladimir Putin said, Joe Biden is weak. I am going to move forward, said Blackburn, who has received more than $800,000 in oil and gas industry donations over her career.

Putting aside that the senators comments sound like someone with a direct line to the war-hungry Russian president, there is nothing to indicate that Bidens energy agenda specifically, revoking a key permit for the Keystone XL pipeline or pausing new oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters motivated Putin to attack Ukraine.

Beyond that, any claim that Biden has ended federal fossil fuel drilling in the U.S. is simply false. The administration recently paused new federal leasing and permitting in response to a Trump-appointed judges ruling that blocked the administration from using a higher calculation for the damages associated with planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions.