A war brought to you by the climate kooks

 The Lid:

This is a battle between the world as it is and the world as the Left wishes it to be. Progressive Western leaders are not up to the task.

We’re seeing now what happens when there is a clash of priorities between left-leaning Western democracies and the leader of a petrol state who sees an opportunity to increase his country’s oil and gas production. He’s doing this because the demand continues to be high, prices are on the rise, and there are no viable alternatives because the environmentalists on the left won’t even consider nuclear power. There’s a lot of money to be made, and Putin thinks Russia should be the beneficiary of it.

Western Leaders are absolutely, unswervingly committed to an ideology that has left them vulnerable to Russia and China, who don’t share the West’s views on energy policy.

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Let me put that in perspective — Russia has a population that is almost one-half of America’s population and has an economy that is 20% smaller than a country with a population around one-tenth of America’s population (Canada).

Now, this isn’t to say that Russia isn’t a threat or that Putin isn’t an evil man who poisons his opposition — those things are true.

And it’s very obviously true that Russia led by Putin and the former Soviet oligarchs is a threat to America — the cyber attacks, the disinformation campaigns, the cozying up with enemies of freedom like China, Iran, Syria, etc. These are all terrible things.

But the worst thing that the Putin-led Russian government has largely gotten away with is the years-long disinformation campaign against fossil fuels.

We’ve known for some time now that Russia has been funding “Big Green” and pushing the West away from fossil fuels — which the Left openly embraces.

The Left is very interested in “Russian collusion” and tosses around many accusations that certain individuals are acting as “puppets of Putin” — but you don’t ever hear them mentioning the anti-fracking propaganda, do you?

That’s because there is an alignment of interests.

The Left won’t ever call out the many Russian disinformation campaigns against the fossil fuel industry in North America and Europe because they also want to stop the development of oil and gas in the West in order to achieve their ambitious climate agenda.

When did Putin choose to invade Crimea in 2014? It was around the time large gas deposits were found in the Black Sea. More oil and gas deposits have been found in the region since then.

Because of a guy with the last name Biden, we know far too well that the Ukrainian energy sector was — and still is — riddled with corruption.

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There is much more.

Russia has been playing the climate kooks and they have become his willing accomplice.  The climate kooks are also the same ones who get made when Trump says Putin is smart.  Perhaps a better description would be wily.  He is certainly playing them.  Big Green got Biden to play right into Putin's hands

See, also:

Trump says Biden is letting 'radical climate extremists run our country' as US sees record-high gas prices 

Trump reacted to reports that Biden administration was weighing purchasing petroleum from Iran, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela