Meaningless and/or deliberately misleading statement, conflating/linking "economy" with "exports" with "which requires Russian gas."
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“Meaningless and/or deliberately misleading statement, conflating/linking “economy” with “exports” with “which requires Russian gas.””
Thank you for the grammar correction.
My point was, if Russian gas isn’t being used, Germany is not producing sufficient electricity to run the companies who produce the exports they sell to the rest of the world. (Thank God it’s not winter, or people would be dying from the cold.) The follow-on effects will be catastrophic, and those effects could cause the government to fall. A replacement government, mindful of what happened to the previous government, is likely to bend a knee to Putin. This is one problem with the type of government where the politicians are subject to what essentially amounts to popularity. (Called “approval” here.)
In their effort to go “green” Germany has shut down several coal plants and nuclear facilities in the belief they can go solar and use wind power. I haven’t seen anything on whether they are reversing any of that. No discussion whatsoever, really. Odd, that. Their reliance on power generated by nasty non-green tech in neighboring countries has caused a net increase in pollution.