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by jpxw 1638 days ago
To be replaced by Russian gas. Great move!
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Yeah, I'm a supporter of Nordstream 2 because cheap gas is better than expensive gas, but I can't understand why Germany is making itself more dependent on gas instead of building out nuclear capacity to be less dependent.

The whole policy really doesn't make a lot of sense, it's not pro-fossil fuel or anti-fossil fuel, it's not pro-Russia or anti-Russia. It's all of the above, which is worse, since it's anti-everything and pro-everything. It suggests German leadership is too incompetent to pursue their own interests and so they are effectively acting randomly.

They're pursuing their own interests just fine; Schröder got a nice position on the board of the nordstream project.
It is hard to find an explanation for this other than Germany has been co-opted by Russia. Ukraine has been separated from the herd and will surely fall. Putin will be on Germany's border by the end of the decade.