So after we funded Ukraine's war, sanctioned Russia into oblivion, froze hundreds of billions $ of their money, forced our companies to leave their market, and even seized their belongings it's them weaponizing assets?
I'm all for the sanctions and support, but making Russia the bad guy for our economic crisis because they are retaliating sanctions is really biased. It's not a weapon, it's a trade and they leave money on the table everyday. Lots of money.
Russia is the bad guy for both the war and their reaction to the sanctions. Your comment is like saying "don't get mad at a criminal for shooting at the police chasing him".
Just so that we're clear, calling the West as "the police" as you do with your analogy just reinforces Russia's claim that we now live in a unipolar world, of which the US is the policeman (hence Russia's desire to split it all into a multi-polar world, no police chasing bad guys without international due-process there).
Nothing in the world justifies a Russian invasion of Ukraine, because this isn't the 18th fucking century.
Stop trying to justify the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Plus, you furthered his point by calling the western atrocious as “conflicts”.
It's ridiculous to me we went all in on sanctions pretending they would bend over and keep doing business with us, but only on things we want them to, after we deny them machinery, computers, software, cars and steal/freeze their assets.
Your analogy doesn't work, we aren't police and they are not shooting, they quit doing business and decided they are okay without our money.
Even Putin was honest enough to call it an invasion and limited his lies to attempts to justify it.
Yes retaliation for sanctions can be expected. But Russia is still the bad actor here.
As stated, I support both supporting Ukraine and the sanctions.
That doesn't make our policy makers any less ridiculous and short sighted in their expectations.
In English "Ukraine's war" give the ownership of the war to Ukraine, making them responsible for it.
If this isn't your intent then good, and I apologize for calling you a Russian apologist.
Countries neighbouring Russia dealt with similar issues multiple times already.
- Current reactors are EOL
- No new reactors have been built since ages, although political constellations might even have been in favor to do so
- No solution for permanent storage of nuclear waste
Nuclear power is no solution at all.
There are super-safe and rather cheap ways of treating and storing nuclear waste!
It’s essentially a scaremongering talking point.
Geological repositories are an excellent solution. Those place are geologically stable, and can contain thousand of years of wastes. It’s not very expensive to collect wastes there, as well!
Why would Russia need European money if the EU either steals them (they call it 'freezing') or doesn't exchange it for what Russia needs (advanced tech)?
And if Russia don't need European money, why do you expect Gazprom to keep selling gas to the Europe?
https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2022-09/zwei-atomkraftwerke-s...
1. Did nobody think about that nuclear plants can't be switched on and off like nothing?
2. They want them in standby because they fear that north-south energy transport could be overloaded. Well, let's have some blackouts in Bavaria then, maybe they'll start cooperating with the rest of the country then.
3. Nuclear plants can't really substitute what might be missing in gas, if I remember correctly.
4. With all the half-assed things that are happening in Germany, let's just do ONE thing consequently and stop using nuclear power. It will be fine if it isn't already.
Whatever Putin’s reason for the war, at this point any attempt to use it for control has spectacularly backfired.
The CDU sold us out to Russia, and it's not gonna change immediately. What we can do now is plan accordingly, and try to move to solar power as soon as possible. And by that I mean, yesterday.
Bills exploded for private households, social media shows regularly pictures of ridiculous bills like 1600EUR+ for a month of heat for a simple family household. That's where it's at right now. Lots of people laugh or mock at the plus of 18EUR/month for Kindergeld that you can now get, because it's basically worthless in comparison.
Prepare yourselves, this is going to be a war of cyber and energy. In my personal opinion it's inevitable, because Putin and his propaganda of the supposed "growing Nazism in Central Europe" has been going on for decades after the revolution attempt of the opposition. It's only a matter of time until Putin wants a strategically easier-to-defend Moscow, because the mountains in Poland and Finland sure look juicy to him.
Always keep in mind: Whoever controls the oil and gas supply, controls the planet economically. The reason for the invasion of the North-East Ukraine was the oil fields, and the independence of oil supply for Europe was too high a risk for Putin's strategical control over the European Union.