Francesco “Frank” Femia is Co-Founder and Research Director at the Center for Climate and Security and the Council on Strategic Risks, as well as Co-Founder and Senior Advisor at the IMCCS - that stands for International Military Council on Climate and Security. He is a notorious commentator on how national security of America and its allies, defense and intelligence communities address climate change-related threats.

Recently, Frank and Caitlin Werrell, his wife, contributed to a book edited by SciencesPo in Paris, France, and titled The Hot War - Strategic Issues of Climate Change with a chapter dedicated to security and climate in the East Mediterranean. Our conversation, however, revolved primarily around Russia’s failures as a petro-state and its invasion of Ukraine and, consequently, war crimes and genocide, destruction, environmental disasters and food crises. Well, the issues of the day…