Gas Wars

An explanation of the outbreak of reality in Ukraine

In brief, it is about gas. US or Russian. Now the Russians have lost the chance to sell their gas to Germany there is no reason any more for cooperation. Our diplomacy has been intransigent to the point of insult. The strategy is to ignore Russia until it is exasperated and then to call Putin ‘Hitler’.

The so called News is full of comments calling Putin Hitler and raising the alarm that he has invaded the West to kill the rainbow people.

Here isn’t the news:

Putin did his dissertation on mineral wealth and geopolitical power. Russia has completed its Nordstream 2 pipeline to serve Germany’s energy needs. As Germany has almost shut all its nuclear reactors, it relies on energy imports to keep the lights on.

The US wants to supply that gas instead. Now it will.

NATO was founded in 1949 “to keep the Americans in, the Germans down and Russia out”. NATO (the US) is now poised to enter a war theatre on behalf of this principle.

The US worked to prevent Nordstream 2 and has done so now. This has …