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I hope I one day get to visit a Russian nationalized McDonalds; just to fully grasp what deglobalization means ...
(Not sure if Americans can visit the place. There are downsides to deglobalization too...)
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10 years too late... It's going to be Eldorado for US companies buying bankrupting German companies for cheap...
Angela Merkel is squarely to blame here. She was warned about he dangers for the 16 years she was chancellor of Germany, and instead of diversifying, doubled down on Russian oil and gas, and ordered the closure of the remaining nuclear plants. So be it. The people voted for her, and apparently Germans in general are rather anti-nuclear.
It's nice to see Germany start working towards energy independence. I think it's a crucial factor for both national security and a faster migration to more environmentally friendly energy sources.
> energy independence We use LPG gas (from a tank buried at the bottom of the garden) feeding a gas boiler to heat our house. I'm all for energy independence, and would love to switch to a more environmentally-friendly energy source, but I'm deeply concerned about how much this will cost me, and even if I did have the money, based on reports in local media, getting a heating engineer in would take many months. Half a…
More Background, why this is in fact important: Gazprom Germania is also a critical part of the german Gas-Market, because it owns the largest gas-Storage with 1/5 of total capacity in Germany, major Gas Pipelines and Platforms for trading the ressource. This is both through Sub-companies Wingas and Astora. It also has contracts with Gazprom in Russia with guaranteed Prices and Deliveries.
Exactly what is left of value in this company; except some payrolls, offices, and some contracts which are void anyway?
This doesn't make sense to me. Can i get an explanation? The German state seized a local German branch of the Russian Gazprom company. In order to secure its energy supplies... which come from Russia. Are they in essence capturing some reserves?
I hope I one day get to visit a Russian nationalized McDonalds; just to fully grasp what deglobalization means ...
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Calling this a “left” thing is really asinine when that’s just who happens to be in power at the time. Do I get to blame terrorism, record debt, and COVID-19 on the U.S. and European “right”?
I’m constantly surprised at the lack of critical reasoning skills when it comes to government or world events. Otherwise intelligent people just absolutely turn off their brain when it comes to this stuff.
You are probably correct that the war would not have happened. Merkel’s Germany would have stood by and refused even more adamantly the right of Ukraine to exist as a sovereign country. Likely it would just be part of Russia now with no war at all. In fact, that’s what Russia counted on while Putin has for years cozied up to Germany and convinced them to strategically rely on Russia to supply them with natural gas, so then they could hang a sword over the head of Germany while they start snapping up the territory and lives of other people.
It's nice to see Germany start working towards energy independence. I think it's a crucial factor for both national security and a faster migration to more environmentally friendly energy sources.
Yeah, they got top minds on this. Top. Minds. Nuclear canceled by the Green Party and pre-March went all in on Russian oil and gas.