China added 78 GW of new coal power capacity in 2025. This surpasses India’s additions over the past 10 years and the EU’s reductions over the past 20 years. China doesn't believe in or care about a “climate crisis.” Other countries reductions are useless. globalenergymonitor.org/report/built-t…

Croatia, which has no nuclear plants, is planning to have nuclear power provide 30% of their electricity by 2040. Wow! Article link in reply.

This is what happens when you demolish the private sector with taxes and regulation.

Plot twist: it isn’t.

This piece from The Brawl Street Journal nicely compliments our discussion this week about the Munich Security Conference and the challenges Europe faces in becoming the more self sufficient partner the White House is demanding. open.substack.com/pub/brawlstree…

It doesn’t have to be this way. Europe holds >65 years of natural gas, >250 years of coal, and vast uranium reserves. East Germany was once a major uranium exporter. Germany still enriches uranium. Energy scarcity here is a policy choice.

Now even Romania is strategically positioning itself in nuclear energy. It’s becoming increasingly clear just how stupid and ideologically blinkered German politics was to let itself be driven around by a horde of anti-civilizational Green idiots and to blow the number-one

“Sanctions work” 🤡

Blowing up a major negotiating chip doesn’t seem too wise. Why should Hungary NOT block the €90bn loan now?

Ukraine has promised, to resume the transit of Russian oil on 25 February after Slovakia refused to supply its electricity The Ukrainian side has informed the Slovak company Transpetrol that deliveries via the "Druzhba" pipeline will resume on 25 February. The reason for this

"Catastrophic" is the correct term. Catastrophic for the "transition" swamp.

Net Zero is dead — but the devastation it caused is all around us. Not only was it likely the biggest financial scam in modern history, it radically reshaped geopolitics. As Javier Blas writes, “ideology rather than economic or technical realities was the driving force.”

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