Why we have to Admit that Russia Didn’t start the War in Ukraine.
To fix the global Energy Crisis
Firstly, this isn’t a story about the War in Ukraine. It is a story about the global Energy problem, which has always been my theme in Medium, seeing it coming now for about five years, after I got onto the trail of it, during a PhD candidate project.
What is very clear now, is that we can’t fix the global energy problem whilst the war in Ukraine is happening.
Worse, the war in Ukraine is bringing all tipping points of the climate disaster racing forward, by way of massively increasing the consumption and wastage of energy by fossil fuels by all parties, despite pipelines being cut, the net result is massive increase of fossil fuels consumption.
The effects of it are reverberating catastrophically in environment, and economy, as well as more obviously politically.
The war going nuclear, is another tipping point.
Our own government in UK is in turmoil, probably the worst ever known in UK.
Most pundits are looking at economy, to try to see the effects that changes in UK government and policies are having on markets.
But they’ve got it wrong, the markets are affected by environment, and government responds to markets, not the other way round.
Anyone truly interested in stabilising UK politics, which would obviously be better for all UK people, is going to have to face the issue of defusing the war in Ukraine.
Because that is the only way we will achieve any kind of collaboration with Russia, and China, with whom we absolutely must work with, to fix the global climate crisis.
The only way we will do that, is by at least acknowledging Russia did not start the war there at all. It started around 2014 when our (The West’s foreign) interference, when our funding of a few extremists there first started to cost the lives of Russian Ukrainians.
The numbers of Russian Ukrainians lost are often disputed, but the fact remains that the dispute exists, therefore the issue of Russian Ukrainian lives being lost in Ukraine exists.
It has existed since 2014, and we’ve largely ignored it.
We, the UK, insisted on occupying part of Ireland with UK government forces, to protect our nationals in Ireland, and Ireland is not even on the same landmass as us.
Russia, is insisting on occupying part of Ukraine with Russian government forces, to protect its nationals in Ukraine, which is directly on its border.
Why is that such a problem for us to accept?
