{"id":409782,"date":"2022-02-25T22:55:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T19:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/john-kerrys-deadly-ukraine-hot-air\/"},"modified":"2022-02-25T22:55:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T19:55:07","slug":"john-kerrys-deadly-ukraine-hot-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/john-kerrys-deadly-ukraine-hot-air\/","title":{"rendered":"#John Kerry&#8217;s deadly Ukraine hot air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#John Kerry&#8217;s deadly Ukraine hot air<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/newspress-collage-21333143-1645811947744.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Proving that he\u2019s still the same old clueless gasbag, ex-Secretary of State John Kerry has flagged the great worry about Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine: It will lead to \u201cmassive emissions\u201d and distract from the fight against climate change.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Talk about tunnel vision: The \u201cemissions\u201d generated by an autocrat\u2019s assault on a free nation aren\u2019t what anyone should care about here. It\u2019s first the loss of life, then the loss of freedom \u2014 and finally the potential collapse of the entire international order.<\/p>\n<p>The death toll, just days after Kerry sounded off, was already more than 130, with hundreds more wounded.\u00a0These are lives lost <em>now<\/em>, against the <em>imagined<\/em> future harms from a few tons of carbon.<\/p>\n<p>And Putin\u2019s assault (with quiet backing from China\u2019s Xi Jinping) on the global community is no <em>distraction <\/em>from climate-change concerns. Whatever diplomacy Kerry hopes for becomes impossible in a world where malevolent powers simply take what they want \u2014and the civilized world keeps on doing business with them.<\/p>\n<p>Europe and President Biden\u2019s America refuse to fully exploit their own energy resources (Germany\u2019s even shut down its nuclear plants), preferring to enrich Putin <em>even now<\/em> by instead burning <em>his <\/em>oil and natural gas. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p><strong>Get the latest<\/strong> <strong>updates<\/strong> <strong>in the Russia-Ukraine conflict with the Post\u2019s live coverage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>Nor does Putin see a climate-change danger to Russia\u2019s \u201cinfrastructure,\u201d let alone from the \u201cthawing\u201d tundra in the country\u2019s north (more genius points from Kerry).<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>At risk here are NATO and the European Union, as Putin aims to turn Germany into a neutral power. The thug\u2019s next step will be to suborn or bully Poland, the Baltic Republics, Hungary and Romania into submission. <\/p>\n<p>These risks are concrete and im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>te, including the <em>millions<\/em> of refugees this war will bring. <\/p>\n<p>Kerry\u2019s (and his administration\u2019s) obsession with emissions, once laughable, is now an outright obscenity. (Not to mention the rank hypocrisy: The man who waves off utter carnage to point to carbon worries still takes to the skies in a private jet at the drop of a <em>chapeau<\/em>, flying at least 16 times over 2021 alone.)<\/p>\n<p>Containing Putin, patching up his damage to the Western alliance and eventually undoing his conquests will require great resolve and sane priorities. John Kerry has neither. 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