“What emerges is not an isolated crisis, but rather part of a continuing strategy since 2000, and which is likely to play out over the next 20–30 years. The current Ukrainian crisis is but one episode in a very long game”
https://twitter.com/dieter_helm/status/1497944122317017097
“(This goes) right back to the early manipulation of supplies through the Ukrainian pipeline, to the Crimea annexation, the destabilisation of the Donbas, the aim of Nord Stream to bypass Ukraine (and the Eastern European buyers of Russian gas)…
“…and the power play on the energy contract to Moldova.
All of the above should be a wake-up call not just to NATO and the EU about the military and democratic challenges, but also about the twin energy aspects: energy security and climate change mitigation.”
All of the above should be a wake-up call not just to NATO and the EU about the military and democratic challenges, but also about the twin energy aspects: energy security and climate change mitigation.”
“Amazingly, the former has only just reached the eyes and ears of European governments, and the latter did not feature at all in all the posturing at COP26.”
“In the case of the UK, it is seemingly deaf to the implications for security of supply (the UK thinks it is about quantity not price) and for climate change, wedded as it is to unilateral territorial carbon production targets.”
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