CEI colleague William Yeatman shines some light on how Gang Green is helping out the Old Reds with their insistence that Europe tie its energy – and therefore entire – fortunes on a dependent relationship with Russia. Oh, and not just that the freer nations bind themselves to Russian whimsy about gas supply over domestic coal, but they also demand a phase-out of nuclear power while they’re at it (a campaign which was just advanced further this week by the European Parliament’s Environment Committee – which, you must bear in mind, is a self-selecting group, so guess-who of all stripes seize the assignment).

There is a big story behind William’s argument. As I detail in my first book, when communism shattered, the Reds knew exactly where they could find safe and sympathetic haven: the Green parties. After all, the two sides had worked closely for years (recall West German Green leader Petra Kelly noting how she trusted the socialists on the other side of the Wall more than she did her home-grown Social Democrats, because the former were much more pure).

There’s a reason why these birds of a feather have for years flocked together: they share an ideology, not the best interests of their countrymen, and whatever misery they have to impose and whichever of your freedoms they must strip are just costs of advancing the cause. Read William’s piece.