History will judge her policies as they greatly enabled Russia to act as boldly as it has.
Yeah you were always a sucker for Putin
It makes no difference what she says; history will judge her otherwise.
>”You always act in the time in which you find yourself,” she told reporters in Lisbon when asked about her government’s approach to Russia.
Deep… very deep thinking.
Yesterdays woman. She should just keep quiet now.
If Germany didn’t purchase Energy from Russia, they would have to import it from the west (Norway, USA). Energy from the west costs more. With energy from the west European industry won’t survive.
This is not Putin’s propaganda. Is simple logic. USA are selling energy to EU at a price 4 times the one Americans industries pay. China, India and Turkey are paying gas a fraction of what we pay. And these entities are all competing in the same market. So the question is, are you ready for mass unemployment and misery? Are you ready for African standards of living here in Europe? Even if you are (and I am not) there is no point in going misery 10 years in advance. The later the better.
Yeah, watching Russia annexed Crimea and still acted indifferently, what a reliable alley. Someone should prosecute her with treason.
Russia, post cold War, had to be given a fair opportunity to be a civil nation. Russia had to be trusted with significant infrastructure, to show that it wasn’t just token support from the rest of Europe.
Russia has just shit over everything that was offered to them over last 30 years.
History will judge all of Europe based upon what happens next. If the worst happens, Germany/Merkel can at least say they tried for real peace.
She has a legacy to protect now, of course, she will say that.
Of course she has no regrets, how else could she have retired comfortably? If not for putin money, she would probably be a struggling former federal employee…
Enjoy your retirement in silence and let us deal with the fallout of your failings
German try to take responsibility challenge (impossible)
Hey Angela, how’s the biography book going?
Are you going to include some spicy moments of meeting Putin?
fking old bag.
If we were living in a sober society this hag should be prosecuted asap.
EDIT: “she said, adding that cheap Russian gas had allowed Germany to push ahead with phasing out nuclear and coal.”
ok you phased out nuclear and coal, and then what? double sweaters for germans during winter?
Many extremely simplified comments here.
First of all she got handed the gas dependency. It was rather in the beginning but gerhard schröder and his party the SPD started it.
The SPD was also 12 of the 16 years of Merkel in the government and had major impact in these decisions. The SPD is the current government party (1 of 3). It’s the one party that holds back heavier weapon deliveries to Ukraine that the other 2 government party push for. There is and were way more ties to russians of SPD politicians then from Merkel or her party. These good relationships pushed for more gas from Russia.
Another thing is the population demanded exit from coal, oil,… the problem was that the voices against nuclear got bigger as well. With Fokushima that topic was sealed. Meaning you had to have at least a bridge energy source.
Renewables were not build fast enough and couldn’t cover everything.
Gas was the last option. Especially for heating in many cases while a combined heating and electric turbines make most sense. The industry needed huge amounts of gas for production or as a processing good.
All in all she handled what was given to her. What the general public wanted with exits of different energy sources and what schröder and the SPD pushed for. The thing we can really point fingers at her is building not enough renewables, while if you dive deeper into that it shows that she wanted to but her party slowed it massively down.
Saying today it’s all on Merkel is not just wrong it’s also an extremely simplified way to wrongly look at decisions from the past.
Well, no
She probably has her own renewables and backup generators
Merkel = russian agent
of course not. it has worked exceptionally well for her and she doesn’t care for the country
NO RAGRETS!
Her colleague Gerhardt Schroeder also regrets nothing
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History will judge her policies as they greatly enabled Russia to act as boldly as it has.
Yeah you were always a sucker for Putin
It makes no difference what she says; history will judge her otherwise.
>”You always act in the time in which you find yourself,” she told reporters in Lisbon when asked about her government’s approach to Russia.
Deep… very deep thinking.
Yesterdays woman. She should just keep quiet now.
If Germany didn’t purchase Energy from Russia, they would have to import it from the west (Norway, USA). Energy from the west costs more. With energy from the west European industry won’t survive.
This is not Putin’s propaganda. Is simple logic. USA are selling energy to EU at a price 4 times the one Americans industries pay. China, India and Turkey are paying gas a fraction of what we pay. And these entities are all competing in the same market. So the question is, are you ready for mass unemployment and misery? Are you ready for African standards of living here in Europe? Even if you are (and I am not) there is no point in going misery 10 years in advance. The later the better.
Yeah, watching Russia annexed Crimea and still acted indifferently, what a reliable alley. Someone should prosecute her with treason.
Russia, post cold War, had to be given a fair opportunity to be a civil nation. Russia had to be trusted with significant infrastructure, to show that it wasn’t just token support from the rest of Europe.
Russia has just shit over everything that was offered to them over last 30 years.
History will judge all of Europe based upon what happens next. If the worst happens, Germany/Merkel can at least say they tried for real peace.
She has a legacy to protect now, of course, she will say that.
Of course she has no regrets, how else could she have retired comfortably? If not for putin money, she would probably be a struggling former federal employee…
Enjoy your retirement in silence and let us deal with the fallout of your failings
German try to take responsibility challenge (impossible)
Hey Angela, how’s the biography book going?
Are you going to include some spicy moments of meeting Putin?
fking old bag.
If we were living in a sober society this hag should be prosecuted asap.
EDIT: “she said, adding that cheap Russian gas had allowed Germany to push ahead with phasing out nuclear and coal.”
ok you phased out nuclear and coal, and then what? double sweaters for germans during winter?
Many extremely simplified comments here.
First of all she got handed the gas dependency. It was rather in the beginning but gerhard schröder and his party the SPD started it.
The SPD was also 12 of the 16 years of Merkel in the government and had major impact in these decisions. The SPD is the current government party (1 of 3). It’s the one party that holds back heavier weapon deliveries to Ukraine that the other 2 government party push for. There is and were way more ties to russians of SPD politicians then from Merkel or her party. These good relationships pushed for more gas from Russia.
Another thing is the population demanded exit from coal, oil,… the problem was that the voices against nuclear got bigger as well. With Fokushima that topic was sealed. Meaning you had to have at least a bridge energy source.
Renewables were not build fast enough and couldn’t cover everything.
Gas was the last option. Especially for heating in many cases while a combined heating and electric turbines make most sense. The industry needed huge amounts of gas for production or as a processing good.
All in all she handled what was given to her. What the general public wanted with exits of different energy sources and what schröder and the SPD pushed for. The thing we can really point fingers at her is building not enough renewables, while if you dive deeper into that it shows that she wanted to but her party slowed it massively down.
Saying today it’s all on Merkel is not just wrong it’s also an extremely simplified way to wrongly look at decisions from the past.
Well, no
She probably has her own renewables and backup generators
Merkel = russian agent
of course not. it has worked exceptionally well for her and she doesn’t care for the country
NO RAGRETS!
Her colleague Gerhardt Schroeder also regrets nothing