It's fun to watch people who doubtless are fully aware of the grave state of our climate reproduce establishment rationales as soon as its politically convenient. Honestly forcing Europe into a gas shock is one of the silver linings here. We need to eliminate most natural gas consumption in the next few decades anyway. If Europe committing hara-kiri at the behest of the US is what it takes to ready the way for that adaptation so be it. One of the facts that gets lost in the knee-jerk anti-imperialism is that Russia is basically the only country besides the US, Australia, and Gulf petrostates that is actively working to prevent acknowledgement of and measures to prevent climate change. It's also probably the only country that actually has a long-term material interest in letting climate change rip (tons of land that's relatively useless due to it being too cold, little developed coastal infrastructure). Russian ascendancy doesn't bode well for the planet uniting to tackle climate change. The current course of events, however, seems like almost the best possible outcome of the war. It's looking like Russia is going to have to go through a bloody slog to take the more Russian cultural areas of Ukraine, leaving it with little appetite for further conquest along with a strengthened state that has had to mobilize Soviet nostalgia to legitimize it's rule (probably the last time in history this would be possible) - maybe something good can come of this. Meanwhile the western-dominated world order will have been destabilized and delegitimated through defeat and the overextension of economic sanctions as a tool of control. The perfect stage for the ascendancy of China will be set, and if they rediscover leftist politics as a means of fighting this new cold war we might not be as perma-fucked as we thought.