Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips

The green dream goes lethal

Through its obsession with “climate change,” the west handed Putin his greatest weapon

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Melanie Phillips
Feb 23, 2022
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Storm damaged wind turbine, Ireland, 2008

Western nations are shocked — shocked! — by Russian president Vladimir Putin’s onslaught against Ukraine.

There are many reasons why the west must bear considerable responsibility for this crisis. As I wrote here, these include the fantasy indulged in until this week by western nations that Putin posed no threat a…

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