They are moving towards that direction because their leadership recognizes that energy is what every country will be fighting for in the near future . They are just taking precautions so to be place in a more advantageous position for the struggle to come . It ' s important to acknowledge that their movement towards greener energy is entirely geopolitical rather than to be concerned for our future generations . <| sep |> For some reason this reminds me of all of those articles that came out after the Brexit vote talking about how everyone regretted staying homevoting leave because they never expected to actually happen . If I remember correctly , the number of regrets surpassed the actual margin of the leave vote .