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Wir haben Putin eine Vorlage geliefert

Zur Wahrheit über den russischen Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine gehört, dass sich der Westen durch unsere Art der Klima und Energiepolitik in eine immer größere Abhängigkeit begeben hat. Michael Shellenberger, einer der Vorreiter der Klimaschutzbewegung und einer derjenigen, die auf Effizienz und vor allem Effektivität der ergriffenen Maßnahmen drängt, hat es auf Twitter auf den Punkt gebracht und auf Zero Hedge zusammengefasst:

  • “‘People think nothing could have been done to prevent Russia from invading Ukraine, but that’s absurd,’ bravely writes outspoken realist Michael Shellenberger in a Twitter thread (…) ‘if Putin thought the costs of invasion outweighed the benefits, he wouldn’t have done it. He’s a rational actor not a madman. And today it’s clear Putin calculated correctly’.” – bto: Und da hat er einen Punkt. Wie auch ich mit Blick auf die Sanktionen geschrieben habe: Der Preis war vor dem Krieg nicht als hoch genug wahrgenommen.
  • “After Russia invaded, a few people demanded that Europe stop buying its natural gas, but European utilities snatched up long-term Russian contracts, and the White House said, ‘Our sanctions are not designed to cause any disruption to the flow of energy from Russia to the world.’” – bto: Das ist auch klar: Die Welt kann sich keine dauerhaft hohen Energiepreise leisten.
  • “People who believe that nothing could have been done to prevent Russia from invading Ukraine thus imply that Russia’s chokehold over European energy supplies was inevitable, but it wasn’t. Europe could have easily increased, rather than closed, nuclear plants and natural gas.” – bto: allen voran die deutschen Politiker, die uns in eine überproportional große Abhängigkeit führten.
  • “Britain could have increased fracking for nat gas but didn’t. Why? Because Russia pumped $95M into anti-fracking advocacy. Noted the head of NATO, Russia ‘engaged actively with environmental organisations (… ) to maintain Europe’s dependence on Russian gas’.” – bto: Ich würde mich nicht wundern, wenn Russland wie schon früher bei der Friedensbewegung auch bei der Klimabewegung im großen Stil die Fäden zöge.
  • “Europe could have kept operating and expanded its nuclear power plants but instead, under pressure from climate activists, including Greta Thunberg, shut them down.” – bto: wiederum mit den Deutschen an der Spitze.
  • “The impact of Thunberg’s anti-nuclear renewables-only advocacy directly impacted France, which has throttled its nuclear plants in service of demands from climate alarmists within Macron’s coalition. Macron allowed greater use of natural gas and wind energy, a decision that recarbonized French electricity, and was also directly harmful to its nuclear power plants. The consequence is that French nuclear plants have suffered significant outages when they were needed most, the current energy crisis. A full one-third of the French nuclear fleet is not operating.” – bto: wobei Macron ja das Steuer herumreißt.
  • “Efforts to make Europe less energy independent, and thus more dependent on Russian gas imports, were led by powerful banking interests in coordination with climate activists and center-Left parties around the world.” – bto: Und diese weigern sich anzuerkennen, dass sie auf einem völlig falschen Weg sind.
  • “The ideological justification for energy scarcity long predates climate change. In the 1960s, radical Left activists abusing their authority as scientists claimed that the world was running out of energy, despite the fact that nuclear proved that energy supplies are infinite. The reason pro-scarcity ‘greens’ attacked nuclear was because it debunked the idea that we faced resource scarcity and environmental degradation from overpopulation. Infinite nuclear energy meant infinite fertilizer, freshwater, and food.” – bto: Andere Länder wissen das und handeln entsprechend. Interessanterweise hat Russland in den letzten Jahren die Kernenergie ausgebaut. Wohl auch, um mehr Rohstoffe exportieren zu können. 
  • “The goal of Western elites is energy scarcity. The cost of that scarcity is to empower tyrants like Putin who can invade nations like Ukraine with little cost Western elites are thus Putin’s useful idiots. They are the ones now saying nothing could have prevented invasion (…).” – bto: genau das, was wir jetzt ständig von unseren Politikern und Journalisten hören.
  • “What the US, Canada, Europe, Japan, South Korea, Australia and other Western allies must do is obvious and urgent: we must massively expand nuclear energy and oil and gas production. This will lower energy prices and reduce exposure to Russian use of energy as a weapon of war.” – bto: Das sagte auch Gunnar Heinsohn im Podcast.
  • “The public needs to understand that Russia could not have taken Ukraine had the West expanded energy production rather than throttled it by closing nuclear plants and reducing oil and gas production.”

→ zerohedge.com: „Shellenberger: Western Elites Are Putin’s ‘Useful Idiots'”, 26. Februar 2022