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It's impossible to escape the constant undertone of the need to sacrifice for the greater global good or else be viewed as a selfish prick. And now, you risk even worse branding by the thought police if you don't fall in line with this new outlook: That of a Putin-enabler.
Since Russia launched its military campaign in Ukraine, Western elites have been arguing that we all must collectively and senselessly concede to lowering our basic standards of living in order to hit back at President Vladimir Putin. In reality, all it does is allow them to continue to profit from our increasingly lowered expectations while all we get in return is the satisfaction of our own virtue signaling.French Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire
called on all the French to "make an effort" on their energy consumption to cope with the rising prices. People should "realize that we're entering into a new world" amid the conflict in Ukraine, in which we "must accelerate our independence vis-à-vis fossil fuel," he said in an interview with the news channel BFMTV earlier in March.
Meanwhile, France's ecological transition minister, Barbara Pompili,
announced that public institutions would be asked to "reduce by one degree" their heating in response to the spike in energy prices since the onset of the conflict.
Comment: How many people would 6000 (more) missiles kill? How many would arbitration kill?