War in Ukraine

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The IEA (International Energy Agency) regularly looks into how the world’s energy mix is changing. Their reports help inform manufacturers and suppliers of what is to come, enabling them to meet demands or not incur unnecessary costs. One of their recent reports found that the world has dramatically sped up its shift to renewable energy in response to the Ukrainian war. In fact, the IEA found that The world will build 2,400 GW of new renewable energy capacity (mainly from solar and wind energy) in the next five years. That is equal to China’s entire current generating capacity! This represents a significant speed-up in the adoption of these planet-saving technologies.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.it/post/96544

Russia's invasion has changed the world, but perhaps nowhere outside Ukraine has the transformation forged by Moscow’s guns, tanks and missiles been as immediate and far-reaching as along Poland’s border.

#StandWithUkraine!

Sad story :(

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Twenty-five years ago this month, Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova formed the GUAM consultative forum to counter Russian efforts to keep them within Moscow’s orbit via the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and to promote their own integration with the democratic West.

Putin’s war in Ukraine has done even more to boost the importance of GUAM for its members; increase the interest of others, especially Turkey; and alarm Moscow with the prospect that a group mostly devoted to democratization and economic cooperation will now take on a security dimension as well.

Modern warfare

From the site: "...The class syllabus for The Making of Modern Ukraine offers an introduction to this critical course. “Often the most important historical experiences are difficult to see. Ukraine tends to exemplify the major trends in European and world history, but sometimes in forms so intense or radical that they escape notice and classification. Ukraine provides an early example of European state formation and an early example of anti-colonial rebellion.” "

For months now, Russia has been chewing its way deeper into Ukraine territory, averaging about 1km/day (that's 0.02 MPH for people whose countries landed men on the moon). After a brilliant feint to the south which caught the Russians deploying the wrong way, and caught the pundidiots cock-a-doodling about the "failure" of Not The Main Offensive Effort, the Ukrainians massed their forces in the north instead, and have averaged advances of 20km/day. Put another way, Russia has demonstrated that their tanks can go 20x faster in reverse than they go in forward gear.

RAW AND WAR

Starts to remind me the plot from Foundation

Meanwhile, Russia’s death cult leaders are growing utterly shrill. Putin’s foremost propagandist, Margarita Simonyan, goes on national television to threaten that there are only two acceptable outcomes for this war: Ukraine’s defeat or a nuclear apocalypse.

what are your plans?

Some thinking around