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by phtrivier 326 days ago
I can also be interpreted as an "energy-transition" war, given how the territories captured by Russia "just happen" to contain the mines... [1]

So if we stop buying oil & gas from Russia, and instead buy batteries made in part out of "Russian" minerals from Eastern-Ukraine... yaay progress, I guess ?

[1] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-ukraines-mineral-res...