No one in Europe will buy their hydrogen though and anyone can make it.
Only to replace coal, but gas will be sourced elsewhere.
Yup. Much is being made about hydrogen as if it's a natural mineral available in select places. Every nation with a population above 10 million ought to be able to meet it's domestic requirements substantially if not completely if they've got their priorities right .
Moreover gas isn't going any place . It's for hydrogen to become cheaper than gas for it to affect the former's acceptability & sale in any manner & keep being competitive. It's all about the bottom-line as far as hydrogen goes . That'd determine it's topline.
By similar argument Britain is Italy and Italy is Britain due to Romans. Bad argument is bad. Honestly, I question the sanity of people bringing up 900 AD as a justification for the Russian invasion of a modern sovereign, democratic state. Russia invaded Ukraine in the 10th century, so it's right they can do it again. JFC, think about your logic here and its potential extrapolations elsewhere.
Every time you come out with something reasonable ( which is rare to begin with ) you then go to negate all that goodwill by posting this ignorant piece of trash . Then you get cross when we bring up your heritage.
In the mediaeval era there was no such land as Ukraine as now know it . The western parts of it & some of the east as well was part of the Grand Duchy of Poland Lithuania. That's the reason the western parts still share more affinity in terms of language & culture with the Polish than they do with the Russians. ( No Paddy , Ukranian & Russian aren't different registers of the same language , they're 2 different languages ) .
Zelensky himself is a Russian speaker though not ethnically Russian . That's precisely the issue . Speakers of Hindi & Urdu would understand this dichotomy better than you . Having said that while there was & is religious cleavages here , nothing of the sort existed in Ukraine for till recently the Ukrainians were followers of the Russian orthodox Church .
It's only in the last few years we've seen the emergence of an autocepahalous Ukrainian Orthodox Church which incidentally also doesn't see wide acceptance from the vast majority of the Ukrainians.
However all this isn't to show that Ukranian nationality isn't a real issue. It is . But the vast majority of the Ukranians who didn't identity as ethnic Russians didn't have any issue with the Soviets or if they did it was common to what the Russians themselves had & endured.
But there was discrimination w.r.t religion . Poland was RC & Ukraine Russian Orthodox. This caused some underlying tension between the two although it wasn't serious enough to cause a chasm .
All this changed during the realm of Peter the Great & his spouse Catherine the Great who expanded their Empire into what comprises present day Ukraine & beyond.
Cut to immediate pre WW-2 & post WW-2 Russia. Some parts of what now constitutes Western Ukraine were carved out of Romania ,Poland etc & became part of the USSR permanently . In the 1950's Khrushchev himself a resident of Ukraine attached Crimea which incidentally up until the 17th century was part of the Turkish Empire ( hence the presence of Crimean Tatar Muslims there ) to Ukraine. Back then or even after the dissolution of the SU nobody in Russia anticipated a problem with this which is why it went uncontested.
The problems began with both the EU & NATO working in tandem to incorporate the former satellites of the SU into their sphere of influence. Once that was accomplished it was the turn of former states of the SU viz the Baltic States , Ukraine , Belarus etc . To that end they infiltrated civil society , political parties , media , business etc thanks to the extensive network of NGO's think tanks etc .
All this time you had Russia grit It's teeth & grin . All this time these actions also confirmed whatever little doubts the Russian security establishment had that they had to secure their interests , make their red lines clear , etc whether peacefully or thru subterfuge or war as the last resort.
That's what Putin spent the past 2 decades doing. 2014 was his way of forcing the west into an accomodation. Once that failed for whatever reason, he had no choice or perhaps welcomed the opportunity to create his own Russian Empire which may be what he desired too but which the west facilitated partly out of design ( US , former satellites of the SU ) , partly out of ineptitude / passivity ( France , Germany etc ) by not taking responsibility & partly for other reasons.
Well, here we are some 3 decades later back with the Iron Curtain. Ditto with China . It's back to the 1950's & deglobalization with anyone who's some self respect & is in a position to do something about it .
Not everyone wants their values & lifestyle dictated by GloboHomo Incorporated. I mean you may love turning up in a skirt & taking it up yours or you may have no reservations on those who do , you would question other males why they aren't doing so calling intolerance , haranguing them citing human rights violations insisting on sanctions & the right to validate such behaviour . Not everyone sees things thus.