"But I do know that the individual counts and deserves consideration and respect."
- From what I've seen from you it sometimes seems that only 'some' individuals count, but others don't.

"They shouldn't just be swept aside in the Kremlin's desire to re-establish the USSR."
- They don't want to recreate the USSR mhaze.
That's as blatent a lie as the one Hillary spun about good ol Uncle Donald getting urinated on by Russian prostitutes on his visit to Moscow.
He doesn't want NATO on his doorstep, it's no different to the idea of the Monroe Doctrine which prevents Russia and China having military bases in Mexico.
And you know what else?
You and I don't actually want NATO in Ukraine or Georgia either, unless you want to increase the likeliness that one of them makes a mistake, and the planet goes up.

Back in 2014 after the Maidan in Ukraine mhaze, they changed the foreign ownership laws, which allowed foreign bankers people like Blackrock to buy up large parts of the country, in order that Ukraine was able to qualify for IMF loans, money to make war - higher ups decided losing Crimea to Russia was a no-go.

Now Ukraine is a bankrupted failed state owned by foreigners.
500k dead and another million critically wounded.
Ukrainian women and kids are good for human and sex trafficking.
The Ukrainians are dying for the bankers, it's not even their country anymore, and well 'U.S. interests want them to send in the teenagers now, you think they really care about the Ukrainian people?
Is this how one treats ones friends?

You think they care about the Georgians, or anyone else?
Hundreds of billions in weapons that all of us through our government have to pay for, and for what?

We're all pawns.

So the Libeals have presented their nuclear energy plan.
Chris Bowen is out their crying stupid liberals.
This from a man who was happy to see coal plants shut down before
the replacement generation was installed and running.
I saw him tonight talking about the clapped out stations.
I will bet he was there cheering when they blew them up.
Of course they are clapped out, because their owner could not afford to
run them in daylight hours because the solars were given preference
and so bit into a large part of their profit.
The idiots did not realise that the laws prohibit companies from
trading while insolvent.
So they closed them down, they had no choice.
to be continued

Some that survived were subsidised, but maintenance was cut back and reliability suffered.
As it stands now the surviving coal stations will just have to be kept
going, no matter what the cost.
They can be kept going, even if turbine or boilers have to be replaced.
That could mean a unit in a four unit power house could be shut down
for a year or more. And that could happen in multiple stations.
However we have NO choice, for the next 10 to 20 years we will have to
keep rebuilding them and curse the people who thought it was clever
to allow them to be shut down and demolished.

That is what stupid people like Bowen have got us into.
These same stupid people expect accurate costs.
The true costs will not be known until tenders are called.
The people who prepared their report did their best and the cost of
the new stations in Korea and Saudi Arabia may be known.

Continued
Bowen even said tonight that even for nuclear transmission lines will
need to be built because the load is increasing. That would have
happened anyway, but an extra three cables could be added or existing
cables increased in size.
As we saw earlier this year towers were bent over by storm.
That maybe because extra cables were added and the wind resistance went up.
The towers can be reinforced to solve that or guy them.
When the housewives are screaming at them because of blackouts there
will be hell to pay.
Watch how my suggestions get implemented when the adults are in charge.

Big Oil’s green dream has turned into a multibillion-dollar nightmare
http://www.theage.com.au/business/companies/big-oil-s-green-dream-has-turned-into-a-multibillion-dollar-nightmare-20241218-p5kz7e.html

>>Shell has scaled back its investment in renewables, including offshore wind and hydrogen; it has reduced its emissions intensity targets, and it has abandoned its objective of becoming the world’s largest electricity company. Norway’s energy giant, Equinor, has also announced plans to shrink its renewable energy division.

As they retreat from their push into renewable energy and downgrade their ambitions to build major exposures to electricity generation, the British and European oil companies are refocusing on their traditional oil and gas businesses.

Where previously they planned to cap or reduce their production, now they are planning and investing to increase it.<<

Do any of these people have any idea what they're doing, or did they just trick all the plebs to go along with it, and now its back to profits?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_Dream

I don't know much about the Georgia Dream Party- but it doesn't look that bad to me, and is probably pretty good. A bit concerning that they have links with European Socialists but that is probably a function of their history. According to Wikipedia they are socially conservative and economically left centralist and want to join Europe but on their own terms.