This is a great article. Putin I believe is there for the food and natural resources his country will need as we begin to seriously experience the effects of climate change.

How about all the geo-engineering of weather that's going on all around the world? It will be a hidden war that will be ratcheted up once the economic importance of food and water is fully understood. We're slightly missing that, and when geo-engineered weather collides with the effects of climate change we will have the big Kahuna of disasters. As usual we know nothing about the technology we use so carelessly in this regard. Think cloud seeding and the floods in Australia.

Soon the whole world will be fighting over food and water and also which countries get to implement weather geo-engineering programs so they can control food supplies and water supplies for their own populations.

Let's hope the egos of a few powerful men don't decide to end it all early in one massive nuclear holocaust.

At least with the first scenario there is a chance that a few of us humans will survive. I've spent the last eight years writing a five book futuristic series on how this might happen.