Comments by "" (@titteryenot4524) on "Channel 4 News"
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Although Russia is an aggressor for sure here, it’s hardly been unprovoked, and this is really a Civil War (particularly from Putin’s point of view). NATO reneging on its agreement not to expand post 1989 has provoked Putin. Casual flouting of 2014 Minsk agreements not to aggress against pro-Russian Ukrainians in the east, leading to the loss of about 14,000 has provoked Putin. The 2014 coup having much evidence (surprise! surprise!) of the paw prints of the CIA\USA has provoked Putin. Zelensky has publicly expressed a desire to acquire nuclear weapons, understandably spooking Moscow and thereby provoking Putin. There’s also the stench of corrupt family Biden deals with Ukraine, as well, which might explain sleepy Joe’s reluctance to get directly involved here. For now. Add to this Putin’s statement that the dissolution of the Soviet Empire was the ‘most tragic geopolitical event of the 20th century’, along with his belief in the greater mother Russia project and bringing the recalcitrant (as he sees them) Ukrainians back into the Slavic familial bosom and you have a perfect storm in which Putin feels justified in rolling his tanks into another sovereign, self-governing territory. He’s deluded in doing this, of course, as most Ukrainians want nothing to do with him, and rightly so. None of the above makes what Putin is doing right, but it makes it a little more understandable from Putin’s/Russia’s point of view.
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That the planet is warming and warming rather alarmingly quickly in historical terms is clear. Even anecdotally, without the data, this is obvious. The issue here is that for the past 200/300 years we have hitched our economies to fossil fuel burning but I do wish people would stop talking about climate change .The climate has changed for about 4 billion years when this 3rd rock from the sun emerged. The real issue is global warming and how much humankind is complicit in this warming. That the planet is warming, and warming rather alarmingly rapidly, is indubitable. What’s not quite as indubitable is how much human activity is contributing to this. On balance, having looked at the evidence, I happen to think that humans are significantly contributing to global warming through fossil fuel burning. Given this, it makes utter sense to phase out fossil fuels. With this caveat: we must do it sensibly. They will be needed for some time to come as the transition to renewables is made. Who knows? Given that we are currently in an interglacial period, 500 years down the line when we have stopped using fossil fuels, the planet might start a rapid cooling trend leading to that ever-promised next Ice Age, and there might be a desperate clamour to start burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible!
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