[Keflavik76]

The only real way Germany can hurt Russia is to stop buying their gas. In December 2021 Russian pipeline gas accounted for 32% of German gas.

[Zhang Fei]

[The only real way Germany can hurt Russia is to stop buying their gas. In December 2021 Russian pipeline gas accounted for 32% of German gas.]

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The speech prepared the German public for the end of Russian gas and the resumption of coal power. Hence the Churchill-like rhetoric for the first time since Berlin lay in ruins. For Germans, going back to coal is the moral equivalent of war.