Now the price is paid for Western infatuations with watermelon communism espoused by a petulant teenager. Will our ridiculous culture ever learn? Are we ever going to grow up and recover the will of our forefathers?

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FNC: “Author Michael Shellenberger is blasting the climate polices of European and other western nations, arguing they ’empowered’ Russian President Vladimir Putin to launch last week’s aggressive actions against Ukraine while maintaining a command over the continent’s energy market.

In a Tuesday piece headlined, ‘The West’s Green Delusions Empowered Putin,’ Shellenberger argued Putin understood economics better than his western counterparts, citing the latter’s incapability of understanding the realities of energy production, and questioned how countries like Germany allowed themselves to become so dependent on an authoritarian country.”

“How has Vladimir Putin … managed to launch an unprovoked full-scale assault on Ukraine?” Shellenberger wrote. “There is a deep psychological, political and almost civilizational answer to that question: He wants Ukraine to be part of Russia more than the West wants it to be free.

“Missing from that explanation, though, is a story about material reality and basic economics—two things that Putin seems to understand far better than his counterparts in the free world and especially in Europe.

“The reason Europe didn’t have a muscular deterrent threat to prevent Russian aggression—and in fact prevented the U.S. from getting allies to do more—is that it needs Putin’s oil and gas. As the West fell into a hypnotic trance about healing its relationship with nature, averting climate apocalypse and worshiping a teenager named Greta, Vladimir Putin made his moves.

“The result has been the worst global energy crisis since 1973, driving prices for electricity and gasoline higher around the world. It is a crisis, fundamentally, of inadequate supply. But the scarcity is entirely manufactured,” he wrote.

“Europeans—led by figures like Greta Thunberg and European Green Party leaders, and supported by Americans like John Kerry—believed that a healthy relationship with the Earth requires making energy scarce. In service to green ideology, they made the perfect the enemy of the good—and of Ukraine.

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“Putin’s relentless focus on energy reality has left him in a stronger position than he should ever have been allowed to find himself. It’s not too late for the rest of the West to save the world from tyrannical regimes that have been empowered by our own energy superstitions,” wrote Shellenberger.

What possessed us? What drives us today to give any credence to the likes of those who associate with John Kerry or Greta Thunberg? Only masochistic foolishness.

In fact, the very same people in the Biden administration denouncing the Russians now made it possible for Putin to attack Ukraine by pursuing pro-Russian energy policies that effectively disarmed the West. Those hypocrites have Ukrainian corpses to answer for.