Energy Independence Is Critical To Stopping Vladimir Putin
The Ann & Phelim Scoop
The Unreported Story Society
4.7 • 556 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
For decades, we've been warning you about the dangers of Europe and the West's energy dependence on Russia. Now, disaster his happened in Ukraine and it has become blatantly obvious that until Europe and the West detangles themselves from Russia's energy needs. We take you through this critical issue and explain how decades of bad pro-green policies have gotten us to this point.
We also remind you of Hillary Clinton's role in this crisis. Remember, not too long ago Clinton warned about Putin's funding of environmentalist organizations and green movements.
Also on this episode we are joined by John Harpol, energy expert and founder of Mercator Energy. He takes us through how this conflict can be solved and how it could have been prevented.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Anne McElheny. |
| 0:06.0 | And I'm Phila McAleer and welcome to the Anne and Philem Scoop. |
| 0:09.0 | It's week 102 of the two weeks to flatten the curve lockdown. |
| 0:13.0 | Tis indeed. |
| 0:14.0 | Today we are devoting the podcast to the frightening and tragic invasion of Ukraine by Russia. |
| 0:22.6 | And what's happening in Ukraine brings together so much of so many things that we talk about all the time on this podcast and in our journalistic careers. |
| 0:31.9 | And we're going to discuss today. |
| 0:33.2 | We're going to be looking at how this could have been completely absolutely avoided if people had used common sense, if politicians would use common sense. |
| 0:42.8 | So, you know, more than ever we realize elections matter. |
| 0:47.0 | Idiotic ideas matter. |
| 0:50.5 | And we have an energy expert joining us later to discuss, kind of do a deep dive into exactly what's happened here and how it happened and why it happened. |
| 1:00.0 | But first we got back very, very late last night from Florida and we were, the flight was delayed and then we were on the tarmac forever. |
| 1:08.4 | And Phelam started writing down some thoughts about this as i said very tragic |
| 1:13.4 | horrible events that's going on um with this invasion um and i'd love for philm to actually just |
| 1:19.7 | i mean it's kind of an unusual thing we're going to do today but it's i really would really like |
| 1:22.9 | philm to just read this because it's it's everything that it's everything that we have said about basically, |
| 1:30.5 | it's basically everything that we have talked about in this podcast for years. |
| 1:34.3 | And it's very crystallized in the worst possible way right now. |
| 1:39.6 | So what's happening in the Ukraine? |
| 1:42.6 | This reminds me of Harold McMillan, the British Prime Minister in the 1960s, who was once asked, what's the biggest problem a statesman can face? And he said, events, my dear boy, events. He was asked that by a journalist. And that was his reply, events, my dear boy, events. I've always hated this quote because it pushes the idea that nothing in the world is predictable or preventable, or that governments cannot stop external forces or take steps to counter them. Let's be clear, the invasion of the Ukraine by Russia, or actually by Vladimir Putin, was entirely predictable. And if not preventable, |
| 2:18.5 | there were steps that the elites and their governments could have taken |
| 2:21.9 | that would have made this invasion very painful |
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