Re:France experiencing worst drought on record
by morsch on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @01:42PM
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You're still not saying how this lets Germany "control the EU". If anything it sounds like you want Eastern Europe to control the access to gas in order to have an inordinate amount of influence over Germany. So basically what Russia is doing now.
Being independent of Russian energy resources would also "bypass" Poland and Ukraine. Germany should and could have been there ten years ago, hopefully we will be ten years from now.
Re:France experiencing worst drought on record
by blfr on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @02:05PM
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Russians and Germans built very expensive Nordstream 1&2 to route around nominative German allies. This is basically official Russian doctrine that Germans, including personally their chancellor, joined.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falin-Kvitsinsky_Doctrine
The goal was not to be independent but to become a hub of Russian gas to resell.
It's not getting gas that's indicative. It's getting gas intentionally bypassing the other EU countries and Ukraine with Nordstream 1&2. Thus enabling Russia and Germany to squeeze eastern EU.
Honest question: do you generally follow world events and not know this? I always wonder what the political and historical consciousness is in the west.