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Kalashnikov showcases electric military motorcycles (defence-blog.com)
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Russia seems pretty damn confused about whether the future is oil or not, or rather just in denial about oil NOT being the future.

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[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 0 points 1 day ago

the structural dead end that russia set itself up with with regards to the green energy transition

Sell europe gas, buy solar panels from China, problem solved.

In other words, launching the “3 day special military operation” was part of that stretching.

No matter how it went, the 3 day operation was always going to increase Europe's impetus for transitioning. Russia went to war in spite of their economic ties to Europe, not to maintain them.

You're falling into the trap of just assigning any bad motivations to a group you don't like, instead of actually considering their perspective.