It is all up to Putin? What about Western apathy and unprepardness.

The Woke are asleep !

What a joke..and a sick one at that!

Which thimble hides the pea?

The pea is under the Chinese thimble, any fool can see that surely.

China now has control of the vast Siberian natural resources: it may now redirect those resources to its growing list of Western hangers-on as they clamber like second rate citizens for the crumbs, China will oblige with a caveat. Good onya Jo dumb ar*se.

Obviously the Ukraine effort is already another failed US war we should not be involved with.

Dan

diver dan,
Well said !

When the educated morons of the West gained the authority over dumbing-down education this dumbing-down became their only success !

The problem is well defined and explained.
But does it have a solution?
Is Putin stepping back the only way out of this dilemma?
Or can the rest of the world develop greater efficiencies?
Efficiencies which lead to better use of the resources we have available?
Do we need to modify our use of goods and services?
Reduce our usage to a bare minimum?
Make resources stretch to cover essential needs: avoid generating luxury items?
And are there other strategies available to us?

I remind myself constantly....
We don't have a naturally occurring right to do something.
Instead, we give ourselves that right.
We define it, and must be prepared to defend it.
It behooves us to generate only logical and well thought out ideas: these based on sound principle.
Such are more likely to find ready acceptance by others.

I think also that expressing an opinion needs to be constructive rather than otherwise.
It needs to lead to a better understanding of any irregularity or difficulty we are facing.
I find some posts to be somewhat negative: they do little to define an actual problem.
They sometimes contain criticism which is insulting in its address.
Please don't shout at me for making this comment.
I mean it in the best possible sense.

You have the opportunity, here, to express a valid set of ideas.
Don't waste the time it takes you to do this?
Use your time wisely.
Make your comments positive and authentic?