https://twitter.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1708595015507665378
Must see for geopolitical fans.
You have steadfastly chased the LNG angle for a long time. This guy makes it real. I’ll have to watch it again to get it to sink in. Thank you.
German LNG imports from Russia essentially stopped in August of last year, source - statistia. German built new regassification facilities and cut a long term deal with Qatar for LNG.
Its kind of hard for the AFD to focus on getting cheap Russian LNG, when Germany is importing next to no Russian LNG at all. Maybe people should try looking up some facts about a accusation before spreading them?
As a rebuttal, here is Joe Blogs, RUSSIAN Economy Starts to Collapse as Fuel Shortages & Price Rises Cause Chaos in Russia. Half of Russian refineries are shutting down due to the sanctions. Refineries can not be turned on or off easily. The sanctions are making Russia energy production unprofitable, when that is where Russia gets most of its money to run the government and the war. No energy sale profits, no tax revenues, no money to keep the trains running on time or fund the war.
DAAAAAAaaaaaamn.............. Thanks for the education upgrade.
My wife and I were legal residents in Germany in 2013 when the Alternative für Deutschland came to be. It's first issue was not today's LNG explanation. It was opposed to the creation of the Euro as a currency replacing the Deutschmark and creation of a European Central Bank, quite like our Fed. That was the ground for their entry as a party into politics.
While a Twitter individual might "spill the beans" about LNG, this was not the central issue. That the AfD and other "populist" parties are doing well electorally and growing in adherents is a deep and principles threat to the European Commission of the EU. They appoint themselves more or less, and as the EC work to make a new USSEu sort of entity, with its control over a centralized military and administration. Thus, the "federal" member states of Europe would be shoe-horned into a "federalized" top-down entity, and this the populist all around Europe are resisting. LNG issues are only part of the problem today.
Proof: One watches the attacks on Orbán in Hungary for resisting the EC's demand for migration are one instance, and Fico's rising to office in Slovakia is another, alongside other European conservative movements, ALL painted as not only "right wing" but often "extreme."
The EC sitting in Brussels want to command Europe, speak with one voice for Europe and emulate Biden with economic controls and sanctions worldwide. I believe this a failing enterprise, which is why we will surely see greater rage from the global elite in the West, as other "elite" rise to challenge the supposedly "uni-polar" world.
It has been a fool's game, as the Joe Bidens and Barak Obamas of this world will eventually have to square off against the Ursula von der Leyens and Josep Borells of Europe, for "control." Contending are not only Russia, China and some as yet amorphous BRICS+ but also rivalry between our US and Europe itself. So the lure of the "uni-polar" world has been the globalists' dream, build on PR and marketing and a compliant media in the West.
LNG as a national product -- recalling Blinken's inane response to the NordStream demolition as a business "opportunity" for the US -- is a snapshot within a larger scrapbook of political elites seeking power and control. For this they would lie and cheat and back-stab.
And of course we as conservatives are the "enemy" and extremists for simply observing and opposing the game.
Had we the privilege to vote in Germany ( we don't ) I would support Alternative für Deutschland, if only to kill off the Euro, return the Deutschmark and Germany's right to manage its own currency.
What are the stakes in Germany? Seeing the EU collapse. It would hurt many European not at all. It would deeply wound the globalist elite. Sounds fine to me. Best wishes.