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> Had EU already switched to renewables 4 years ago there wouldn't be any disruption by the war Russia started in Ukraine. They might've just started the war 4

• tialaramex 1y ago
  In 2014 Russia decided to attack Ukraine because its political ambitions had been thwarted. A pro-Russian politician took existing EU integration plans and went "fuck that, we love Russia" instead and Ukrainians particularly in the West of the country turned out on the streets in a huge protest. In the aftermath, with Ukraine now definitively not in Russia's sphere of control, Putin ordered seizure of the eastern parts of Ukraine. Four years earlier doesn't make sense, Russia has plans that are expected to work out in their favour, and Putin is less secure in 2010 than he is today, invading a neighbour looks very ambitious in 2010. Moving the more recent part of the invasion - which starts with trying to seize Kyiv - forward by four years maybe makes more sense, but that compresses a lot of timeline.
• gyudin 1y ago
  There were not much disruption though, EU has payed Russia over €214 billions since the start of the war
• ZeroGravitas 1y ago
  There were calls to roll out renewables faster when Russia first entered Crimea, mostly focused on wind since it was 2014. Traitorous climate frauds like Bjørn Lomborg responded by claiming that wind power didn't work and we should instead invest in some new unspecified alternative to wind and solar.