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0 pointsJumpCrisscross3y ago0 comments

> outrage over buying from Russia while turning a blind eye to Arab monarchies seems rather perfomative

The Arab monarchies largely keep their messes in their own backyards. When there has been leakage, it has been limited. Russia rolling tanks into Europe is so harebrained it creates a new category of security risk we haven’t had close to home in a while: that of a madman.

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rswail3y ago

I wouldn't call 9/11 "limited". Nor is Yemen, or, earlier, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Iran etc.

The fundamental of all of these is oil and now, gas. Removing the demand for these will remove the necessity of engaging with these propped up monarchies and autocracies.

JumpCrisscrossOP3y ago

> wouldn't call 9/11 "limited"

Relative to what's going on in Ukraine, it is. 9/11 was a massive terrorist attack. Next to the scale of state-on-state warfare (a category it does not belong in), it was a rounding error.

Agree that de-carbonising our economy will remove our need to support these regimes.

unmole3y ago

> creates a new category of security risk we haven’t had close to home in a while

And Europe is reacting to it appropriately.

My point was that it's ultimately about geopolitics, not the feigned morality the GP was alluding to.

throwaway483753y ago

>The Arab monarchies largely keep their messes in their own backyards. When there has been leakage, it has been limited.

9/11

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