Still thinks it's funny?
Posted on 01/01/2023 7:26:39 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
This year, former President Donald Trump was proven right in his critiques of the globalist green agenda of the European Union and its reliance on Russian energy, which following the war in Ukraine have both been exposed as devastating failures of leadership.
In 2018, then-President Donald Trump took to the lectern of the United Nations in New York City to denounce what he saw as a foolhardy and dangerous move by Germany to increase its reliance on Russian natural gas.
“Germany will become totally dependent on Russian energy if it does not immediately change course,” Mr Trump warned.
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Cheech and Chong run EU energy policy?
THAT explains everything.
Has there been anything Trump has been WRONG about? “If Biden your gas prices will go through the roof, inflation will go through the roof, believe me”
Oh my, how about that, he was right but the media of course ignores it. Instead Mike Wallace was demanding Trump denounce white supremacy for the 20 billionth trillionth time, something that was not asked of the segregationist Biden.
forgot to put “wins” in there after “Biden” Dammmit! When is freep getting an “edit” button.
I’d take them over the suitcase-stealing tranny clown Biden put in charge of our nuclear waste.
He has been vindicated about almost all of his policies, but his political future looks bleak. That is the paradox of our current age.
We could use a bit of “global warming” right now......
This along with the fact that the poor Ukrainians are now sitting in the dark freezing to death while eating bark and twigs while Germans are being told to wash only once a week.
There was NOTHING WRONG with Europe accessing cheap (very cheap), reliable, Russian gas. The delivery of it was flawless and it began during the Cold War.
What Europe didn’t seem to understand was that they couldn’t then provoke the Russians into having to clean up Ukraine. And if they didn’t understand that, we made damn sure they got the message when we (the West) took out the pipelines.
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Still thinks it's funny?
Other than, of course, that would make all of Europe subject to “leverage” vis a vis Russian interests, such as its desire to restore the Russian empire. Which was Trumps point. What, do you disagree with Trump? Are you in with that pack of smarmy Germans?
“Other than, of course, that would make all of Europe subject to “leverage” vis a vis Russian interests, such as its desire to restore the Russian empire. Which was Trumps point. What, do you disagree with Trump? Are you in with that pack of smarmy Germans?”
Agree, but that was Europe’s choice - the problem is that they tried to have it both ways (get very cheap energy from Russia, while still being puppets of the Neocons). No way that would work.
In other words, anytime Europe differed with Russian policy they would have that hanging over their heads. This was a very stupid thing to do. One does not become so dependent on a sole foreign source of something vital without severe consequences.
Btw, see the excessive global dependency on China for another not unrelated set of problems.
Putin obviously thought that dependency would matter in 2022. It almost did, he was just...premature.
“Putin obviously thought that dependency would matter in 2022. It almost did, he was just...premature.”
Europe made their choices...they chose “ALL”, which wasn’t an option (as they learned the hard way).
Europe is far from out of the woods, even in a best case, they’ll never be competitive again in energy-heavy industries (which was most of Germany’s industry). And, at a minimum, Putin managed to do something that literally NO POLITICIAN in Europe was able to do, which was to send Greta back to The Spectrum. I’m still waiting for Europe to thank him for that.
Agree on China, by the way.
EU headquarters should go up in smoke.
What Europe didn’t seem to understand was that they couldn’t then provoke the Russians into having to clean up Ukraine. And if they didn’t understand that, we made damn sure they got the message when we (the West) took out the pipelines."
Look at all the millions dead from hypothermia in Europe, maybe billions! L. O. L. at Y. O. U., Putlim.
German industries are only “energy heavy” in one sense.
They do a lot of chemicals and metal bashing.
But in Germany’s case the big deal isnt the energy part, but the value-added beyond the fact of manufacture.
You expend the same energy to make widget A in China vs making some similar widget Ax in Germany. But Germany can get 2X the price for their value-added widget Ax. Germany really isn’t about competing in commodity widget markets.
Increased cost of energy means German profit margins will be reduced, somewhat, until the energy supply constraints are resolved. These are being resolved btw.
Russia using its energy cost advantages could be making widget A too, and undercutting China. But the screwed up Russian system wherein the bulk of earnings is invested abroad instead of being invested at home means that the Russian economy gets very little benefit from its energy sales.
The Poles would halfway agree with you.
The EU got too big for its britches. Its been getting into things that few of the Euros really want it to. Hence the large scale pushback.
But the core value of the EU still exists and it matters a lot.
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