Posted on 01/12/2022 3:11:48 AM PST by Kaslin
There is a real possibility that the European Union (EU) will endure major fuel shortages this winter. Record-high electricity prices are currently the norm with no end in sight. Russian president Vladimir Putin astutely understands that the EU heavily relies on Russian natural gas, which the Nord Stream 1 and now 2 (NS2) natural gas pipeline will provide. This $11 billion line to the German coast spanning 764 miles under the Baltic Sea will double the capacity of Russian natural gas and be used as a geopolitical leverage point against Ukraine, Poland, NATO, the EU, and most of all Germany, the largest economy in the EU.
Germany continues its “disastrous” Energiewende transition to a low-carbon or net zero future by shutting down reliable, resilient, and affordable natural gas, coal, and nuclear plants. In early 2021 German federal government auditors found the “country would need to spend over $600 billion between 2020 to 2025 to maintain grid reliability.” This on top of the $580 billion already spent by the Germans on Energiewende while closing the Brokdorf, Grohnde, and Gundremmingen zero-carbon nuclear reactors on December 31, 2021.
Instead the Germans and EU are opting for intermittent, grossly expensive, land-gouging, and dangerous industrial wind and solar farms for baseload electrical generation. Make no mistake -- we are a fossil fuel world. If Germany doesn’t change, blackouts are its future. Same for the EU. As energy analyst Vaclav Smil says:
"Energy transitions are protracted affairs: large-scale energy conversions are still dominated by prime movers and processes invented during the 1880s or during the 1930s and no techniques currently under development can rival any of those conversion during the coming two to three decades.”
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EU and Demokraat USSA are Jonestown reboots.
It’s an old story.
The Euros spent last century murdering each other. In the 21st, they will commit mass suicide. This time, Uncle Samantha won’t save them and will instead drink from the same stein of Kool-Aid.
All together now. Helter Skelter. There’s something in the air.
The great reset is upon them and they haven’t a clue
The EU is dragging its feet on approving Nord Stream 2 due to environmentalists protesting.
This is what happens when the brainless environmental agenda is placed ahead of logic and reason.
Like all socialist dreams, the common citizen will suffer.
Well lets see, Atilla the Hun, Karl Marx, WW1, WW2, is there anything you can think of about Germany you don’t like? (Must I say.sarc?)
They’re just this little jewel on the other side of the pond always creating new and exciting things for the rest of us.
It is sad how western civilization is destroying itself right before our eyes.
Your post is using the wrong tense for the verb
The Euros are in the process of committing suicide.
Suicide by 0 carbon and climate change zealotry
Suicide by passive unregulated immigration
Suicide by Islam
Suicide by neglecting to have adequate defense and warriors at hand
What you refer to as western is UK/Euro civilization. Such post WW II society is doomed and should be referred to as “was”. The fact, the historical fact, is that Europe is no longer worth preserving.
The future is east of Suez in Asia. The single island of Java in the far off Pacific has a greater population than the dying Russian Federation
Attila had nothing to do with “Germany”.
And while “Germany” is a microcosm of Europe in its small fiefdoms and their bickering and warring, they also did a great deal of great thinking and creating.
And America is greatly Germanic in culture as well as genetics.
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Their streets are very clean.
About tense and all, you are quite correct.
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