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by michaelt 1701 days ago
Germany had a bunch of nuclear plants, which have pretty low carbon emissions.

Then they decided to shut them all down; and that they urgently need a new gas pipeline - Nord Stream 2 - to import natural gas from Russia.

Doesn’t sound very carbon neutral to me.
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wiz21c 1701 days ago
And that'll make Europe dependent on Russia. Doesn't sound much of a problem to me but down here, Putin is seen as a somewhat bad person. So, Europe will have to bow to him to have not too expensive gas, I'll have a lot of fun hearing our politicians telling that, poor them, they have to negotiate with him :-)
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nextaccountic 1701 days ago
On the other hand, making Europe economically dependent on Russia lowers the likelihood of war between them and fosters cooperation in other areas. Germany doesn't buy the US narrative that Russia should be treated with hostility at all costs.
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dragonwriter 1701 days ago
> On the other hand, making Europe economically dependent on Russia lowers the likelihood of war between them

No, it doesn't.

Attempting to break economic dependence, or to preempt such attempts in the anticipated future, is at least as common a cause of war as geopolitical competition between powers that aren’t in a dependency relationship.

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