• CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 days ago

    Renewables provide energy independence, which is a matter of national security. Why the right can’t understand that, I don’t know.

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      Oil as an industry is too wealthy, no matter how much sense it makes to be independent of it the people selling it can use a small fraction of the money they make obstruct any threat

    • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world
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      Reform aren’t devoid of ties to Russia, so where the UK’s national security is at odds with Putin’s interests, it won’t be a priority. Russian gas will never be sold to the UK again if the UK stops buying gas.

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        “Aren’t devoid” is understatement of the century

        Farage has been on RT almost as much as he’s been on BBC Question Time (where he was notoriously given magnitudes more representation than any other politician due to the right-wing show runner making sure of it)