Tldr; Austria’s finance minister rules out sanctions as he claims it would hurt Austria more than Russia.
I don’t think he’s quite seen the bodies of the children yet.
Austrians are all about Austria, and they don’t like messy shit. Vienna is almost too clean and orderly to be real.
That was my distinct impression when I visited there.
“It’s ok when we demand things from others, when they do it’s not ok”
Resource poor countries such as austria have little choice. They’ve exploited almost all gas and oil reserves in Romania and now they depend on russia.
Counter proposition : a strongly worded letter written on recycled paper
What a total piece of shit!
Hey Austrians, petition your government to revive this:
Not sure why it was cancelled but it could he a solution.
Austrians, are you the ones who would comfortably sit in front of your Russian gas powered fireplaces while Putin kills innocent Ukrainians? If not – let your elected official know you disapprove!
If yes – fuck you… You were fine with Hitler before and are fine with Putin now.
Now everyone is hating us. But you have to remember that our oil and gas important consist of 80% Russian oil and gas and if we would sanction it, we wouldn’t only kill the economy, but also couldn’t heat our homes (and no to every „expert“ out there: it’s not getting warmer in Austria it’s actually getting colder and it has snowed in some part of Austria again.)
The solution would be to gradually import oil from another source and decrease Russian dependency. And you can believe me that a lot of Austrians (including me) are in favor of this plan.
PS: I know people will downvote it, but this had to be said.
Cowards.
Translation: people would get uncomfortable and we can’t have that.
I keep reading the “this would be worst for us than for the Russians”. I was under the impression that gas/oil was one of the only ways that significant amounts of money finds it’s way into Russia nowadays. Can someone explain this one? One more: aren’t there reserves? At least for a few months? Tia.
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Tldr; Austria’s finance minister rules out sanctions as he claims it would hurt Austria more than Russia.
I don’t think he’s quite seen the bodies of the children yet.
Austrians are all about Austria, and they don’t like messy shit. Vienna is almost too clean and orderly to be real.
That was my distinct impression when I visited there.
“It’s ok when we demand things from others, when they do it’s not ok”
Resource poor countries such as austria have little choice. They’ve exploited almost all gas and oil reserves in Romania and now they depend on russia.
Counter proposition : a strongly worded letter written on recycled paper
What a total piece of shit!
Hey Austrians, petition your government to revive this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabucco_pipeline
Not sure why it was cancelled but it could he a solution.
Austrians, are you the ones who would comfortably sit in front of your Russian gas powered fireplaces while Putin kills innocent Ukrainians? If not – let your elected official know you disapprove!
If yes – fuck you… You were fine with Hitler before and are fine with Putin now.
Now everyone is hating us. But you have to remember that our oil and gas important consist of 80% Russian oil and gas and if we would sanction it, we wouldn’t only kill the economy, but also couldn’t heat our homes (and no to every „expert“ out there: it’s not getting warmer in Austria it’s actually getting colder and it has snowed in some part of Austria again.)
The solution would be to gradually import oil from another source and decrease Russian dependency. And you can believe me that a lot of Austrians (including me) are in favor of this plan.
PS: I know people will downvote it, but this had to be said.
Cowards.
Translation: people would get uncomfortable and we can’t have that.
I keep reading the “this would be worst for us than for the Russians”. I was under the impression that gas/oil was one of the only ways that significant amounts of money finds it’s way into Russia nowadays. Can someone explain this one? One more: aren’t there reserves? At least for a few months? Tia.