Posted on 08/05/2022 12:24:53 AM PDT by Mount Athos
Europe is hurtling towards its greatest economic crisis since the 1930s.
While the value of the ruble has in fact risen, Europe faces energy shortages, inflation, and slower economic growth.
Millions of refugees fleeing similar problems in Africa and the Middle East are likely to start arriving on Europe's borders. With food, fuel, and migration problems mounting, all of Europe's governments will face increased unrest. Many more are likely to fall in the next six to eight months.
Fueled by cheap Russian energy, Germany has been the engine of European economic growth. Not any longer. Some of Germany's largest energy companies will require massive government bailouts to avoid bankruptcy.
Soaring energy costs have made German exports much less competitive. German drivers are paying nearly $10 a gallon for gasoline. Germany's Federal Network Regulatory Agency has warned consumers that household energy costs may triple next year. Even German steelmakers, who still need coal and get much of it from Russia, are feeling the pain of sanctions. The net result is German inflation that now exceeds anything seen since 1960, combined with German GDP which is falling, and expected to fall further.
Europe's political leaders clearly sense what is coming. Hungarian President Victor Orban, who won re-election easily in April, now feels threatened by economic unrest. He recently condemned the EU's Russia sanctions policies saying, "I thought we had only shot ourselves in the foot, but now it is clear that the European economy has shot itself in the lungs, and it is gasping for air." Remarkably, Frans Timmermans, the vice president of the European Commission, agrees with Orban. He has warned that due to energy shortages, Europe will see, "Very, very strong conflict and strife" this winter.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Eff em
They were warned not to sit under the sword of Damocles
Wtf? How about Europe can’t count on US to fight Russia? How about we don’t egg on Russia.
These neocon clowns are sickos. They just dragged the old WMD asshole himself, off the scrap heap to dirt the only President in 40 years to not start a war.
“fight” bait.
Just like all the other lying
“They that observe lying vanities, forsake their own mercy” Jonah 2:8
Lol 10 dollars a gallon. I was in west Germany shortly after the metrics conversion. There were a few who realized they were paying the same for a whole lot less. All the folks here who want to emulate Europe should live in their tiny state sized country and their tiny apartments over a disco.
They do not drive 40 minutes to commute to work. They are closing in on another “country” if they drive that far.
They didn’t help much in the last world war. Why would anyone expect them to help pin the next. They’ve always left it to the hated yanks
“ Because they hurt the feelings of boys who pretend to be girls?”
Because, for the neocons, the Cossacks are always planning another pogrom just around the corner and the Czar is still Christian.
“Uh, someone please explain why we should fight Russia. Because they hurt the feelings of boys who pretend to be girls?”
More like they give boys a chance to grow up as boys before having to deal with government-licensed sexual predators.
Because the U.S. (under Obama) backed the coup in Ukraine that caused the whole mess.
Because Russia shrugged off sanctions designed to cripple it.
Because those sanctions have in fact crippled and impoverished Europe, and it isn't even Winter yet.
“Then came Russia’s invasion of Ukraine followed by Europe’s efforts to weaken Russian President Vladimir Putin with extensive economic sanctions. Those sanctions backfired.”
Coming from our media, who led the charge for ‘sanctions’.
...and to think that there are some here who STILL claim Russia is being hurt more than Europe.
Putin is in fact a Christian and cannot possibly want to see most Europeans freeze and starve. Nonetheless, nobody should expect him to worry over much about Europe’s food and fuel situations while Europe’s cretin/wanker leaders are arming and supporting a barbarian-Nazi horde on his doorstep.His price for returning business with Europe to status-quo ante will most likely be the disbanding of NATO and the replacement of all European governments other than Serbia and Hungary. The alternative will be freezing and starvation. And there isn’t a thing in the world US demopoops and neocons can do about it.
Yeah, well, since those devastating sanctions struck with the power of an angry God, Russia has had to source trouser-buttons from Turkey
“The only country with the reserves and technology needed to produce a massive increase in Western energy resources is the United States, but it is seeking to reduce fossil fuel production.”
Looks as though we are sanctioning Europe, along with Europe sanctioning Europe.
Take that, Putin!!!!
Even as they poke at Russia, the Neocon geniuses are looking to start a fight with China.
Their Project for a New American Century viewed America as a solitary superpower that could impose its will on the world. But now, like all empires, the Neocon project is overextending.
Putin supports Christians for political and practical reasons. And that's good. But Putin himself is probably an atheist, and certainly a thug. Not that Zelensky is better.
All of these problems could easily be solved. They are simply a question of political will.
Rapefugees? Turn them away. BY FORCE. Shoot any invaders who persist in trying to invade after they’ve been told they’re not getting in. You won’t even have to shoot that many. The rest just need to see that you will. Problem solved.
Energy?
Step 1. Get rid of Gaia worship. Forget about it. Build nuclear and coal fired power plants. Get back to mining your own coal like you used to.
Step 2. Openly lobby the US to produce more coal and oil and natural gas. Then those of us who are against Gaia Worship in the US can beat the Democrats over the head with it accusing them of being tools of Putin (which they are) and disloyal allies for blocking maximum production of fossil fuels when it is desperately needed by our NATO allies.
These problems ARE solvable Yurps. You just have to decide that you want to solve them.
Why arent they building more windmills? Hey....i thought solar panels etc were going to fix everything. They’ve been the leaders in this push for “alternative” energy..... hmmm could it be that the climate change BS was coming from energy poor Europe?
These problems ARE solvable Yurps. You just have to decide that you want to solve them.
There is another side to the current change in the tide beneath our feet. That this and similar articles are appearing in the US legacy media like Newsweek and elsewhere suggests that the "project" from the Obama-Nuland color revolution forward in the Ukraine is coming to an end which the Obama-Nuland sorts (including the NATO leadership) are proven by history to have been fools while playing other for fools.
Add in such amusing sideshows as the Francis "prayer of consecration" and the European and US politicians parading into Kiev to lay billions in donations on the side altar of the "liberal world order," and one is likely watching an unraveling which will lay bare many things. Many emperors have had no clothes.
It is left -- and LEFT with the complicity of fake conservatives -- to the Western legacy media now to slowly and methodically pull the wool over the eyes of the world, that the past and current crop of neocons and libcoms may try to make their exit from the stage.
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