Harbinger2001 t1_j9keyeq wrote on February 22, 2023 at 5:05 PM

Reply to comment by girkkens in Russian President Vladimir Putin unwittingly accelerated the European Union’s green transition with his war in Ukraine, with the 27-nation bloc reducing its dependency on Russian fossil fuels and increasing its renewable energy use over the past year, the EU’s climate czar said Tuesday. by MrGuttFeeling

Putin was facing a west-friendly Ukraine controlling their southern pipeline and bringing their own LNG production online. The longer he waited the worse it would get for Russia. Trump being the first incumbent to lose in a long time really hurt his plans. In the end he decided the damage done to western solidarity was more permanent than it turned out to be.

The lesson is - don’t fuck with the US’s geopolitical and economic interests.