By John Cody of Remix News
Germany is facing an unprecedented crisis due to a potential Russian gas cut that will erase the prosperity Germans have grown accustomed to, warned Rainer Dulger, head of the Confederation of German Employers’ Associations.
“We are facing the biggest crisis the country has ever had. We have to be honest and say: First of all, we will lose the prosperity that we have had for years,” Dulger told the Süddeutsche Zeitung regarding the consequences of a gas shortage to everyone.
While many are urging more government intervention to help prop up the German economy, Dulger argues that in general, the fewer the interventions, the better. He says that when it comes to the economy, private businesses always do better than the government.
However, he does believe certain measures need to be implemented to provide support for people in increasingly stressed economic situations.
“More net earnings from the gross amount must now arrive into every citizen’s account,” he claimed, emphasizing the importance of not reducing the net income of the citizens and ensuring the fair redistribution of profits generated during the crisis.
Dulger is not the only one warning of a crisis in Germany. Economy Minister Robert Habeck warns of a “catastrophic winter” ahead over Russian gas cut fears.
According to him, Germany will face a “crucial test that we haven’t faced for a long time.”
Other experts are predicting mass bankruptcies, inflation, and energy rationing that will send “shockwaves” through the German economy.
The Bavarian Business Association (VBW) warned that as many as 5.6 million jobs across Germany could be lost in the case of a gas supply stoppage from Russia.
According to the association’s calculations, a German boycott of Russian gas could also reduce the country’s economic output by 12.7 percent, with immediate abandonment of the raw material hitting the glass, iron, and steel industries particularly hard; losses in these sectors would be almost 50 percent.
Dulger sees the significant cause of the current situation as the lack of ability to be self-sufficient. For too long, Germany had disregarded something that former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt warned about in the 1970s.
When deliveries of gas to Russia began at the time, Schmidt said: “We can do it, but we must not depend on Russian gas for more than 30 percent.”
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A critical thinker would ask “Why is Russia cutting off energy supplies and what can I do about it?”
Why did they do it. Probably because only a moronic leader would supply energy to a country that is in a de facto military conflict with his country.
Case in point, Joe Biden sent a million barrels of the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve to Red China.
Biden was just paying back the Chinese for taking care of his boy Hunter who was taking care of The Big Guy.
Putin is being smart. He is continuing his cash flow while setting up the means to deliver product to other customers. In a few months, he will have those means finished and can completely cut off his enemies.
But Russia isn’t cutting off energy supplies. Europe is doing the cutting.
Example natural gas:
1. Poland has completely shut down the Yamal pipeline coming from Russia, in mid-May.
2. Also in mid-May Ukraine has reduced the flow through the Soyuz gas pipeline running through it’s country by 30%.
3. Nordstream 2 was never opened due to German “regulations.”
4. Nordstream 1 flow was reduced by 60% – by Russia after a compressor turbine, which needs yearly overhaul by Siemens in Canada, wasn’t returned to them.
Those are all existing gas pipelines from Russia to Central Europe.
So maybe rephrase your question to
“Why is Europe cutting off it’s own energy supplies?”
That was the gist of my question – Who is responsible for the energy shortage and it is not just gas, but shutting down nuclear power plants.
Not the Babylon Bee: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/17/putin-is-already-at-war-with-europe-there-is-only-one-way-to-stop-him
I’m getting more and more convinced the West’s strategy is to have Putin die from laughter.
I that ISN’T the strategy, how would it be different if it were?
It’s a good time to listen to the song “in spite of ourselves”
If the German people end up freezing this winter and paying huge energy and food bills they have only themselves to blame for their predicament. I have no sympathy for them. Liviing is hard, but it is a lot harder when you are stupid.
The splash damage will hit everywhere. US energy supplies will be in demand for LNG shipment to EU and will inflate our market prices significantly. If NATO is in a no-holds-barred war by winter, expect to see Russian subs sink the majority of those tankers, meaning, of course, nobody receives shipment except the Atlantic ocean. This will delight the ZWO Great Reseters to no end since chaos and misery is their only goal.
Not subs, missiles, but yeah.
Each LNG tanker is basically one giant stick of dynamite.
Fair enough. Maybe V.P. & Co. will spare the pending migratory influx of smart Euro-peons into South America.
You have a poor knowledge of history. Germany has been propagandized for far longer than since WW2, it actually began in the 1st WW. Propaganda is nothing new in human history, it has been used successfully for thousands of years. It is still up to the people to believe the propaganda, or not. Believing lies, comes from being too lazy, and cowardly to do your own research and to make your own decisions.
Humans are a self centered species prone to deceiving themselves. To ignore reality is stupidity, and to the degree that the people do it, they suffer.
Jewish victim blaming.
Like they say, you can’t fix stupid. Any discussion with a liberal will prove that beyond any doubt.
Nobody is buying your kike bullshit.
Putin will re-start the gas flow, and if I were him, I would try to do it ahead of schedule.
Let the Germans and Europe breathe a sigh of relief.
He should then shut it off entirely come late October. Tell them, since they will still be supporting, arming and financing Ukraine, to enjoy their winter and the instant economic depression.
Since no one in Europe will have stored any food, or have any energy, let them tear themselves apart. Maybe they will wake up at that point.
Same strategy the communists use against us. Cause some pain, give the target a little relief, then cause more pain… it demoralizes the target.
Watch, coming fall here the scumlords will reintroduce masking, isolationing and boosters for the old covid and the ‘new’ variants. The ’emergency’ will continue…
Putin could announce that he won’t reopen Northstream 1 until Lithuania has completely ended the partial Kaliningrad blockade.
As the EU in general and Lithuania specifically will never want to be seen following Russian “orders”, that will result in a guaranteed permanent shutdown.
Jesus tits, he should demand the closure of all US bases in Germany.
A crisis of their own making.
Stupid (green energy) + Stupid (messing with your biggest energy supplier) = 2 x Stupid.
Evil + Evil = Zionist Occupied Governments.
Dummkopfs.
Although, on second thought, it gives those schmart Deutchevolk the opportunity to bring in moar refugees (Muslims and African single men of fighting age) and in doing so make the Fatherland moar like the Third World shithole the WEPH trained leadershit has been ordered by Davos to install, schnell!
Verzögert
I can think of another country importing mass numbers of fighting age men and welcoming them will open arms and pocketbooks.
Well, one can’t get a good donner kebab anywhere else.
Here are some suggestions.
–1) Save your shit!! Dry in in the oven or sun. Seriously, it’s great for heating your home or cooking.
— 2) Save your piss! Seriously, you can drink your own pee. Ask the Japs.
— 3) Start breeding rats! They breed like crazy, are almost impossible to kill, require virtually no care, and the meat is Yummy Wunderbar.
— 4) Start breeding crickets! (See above.)
— 5) Buy IKEA furniture! Instead of burning your entire cabinet, you can burn just one piece at a time. You’ll stay warm and still have a place to store your dishes.
–6) Attach a hose to the muffler of your BMW and run the hose to your bedroom. Cars put out a lot of heat so you will be very warm …. and you’ll sleep in comfort like you never have before.
Beste Wünsche meine Landsleute!!!
Take lots of showers…or at least this one special shower.
I used to think the Germans were smart, not anymore………
Nothing good ever came out of Germany. Let it snow.
C’mon, Pal, don’t be a dummkopf.
Bach, Schopenhauer, beer, Krupp, Beethoven, spaetzle, Roentgen, Luger, Schiller, zeppelins, Hugo Boss (and those uniforms) Mercedes Benz, bratwurst, marches, Hertz, 88mm cannon, Frederich the Great, Walther, beer, Porsche…the list of amazing German achievements and gifts to the world is extremely long.
…and then all of a sudden, people elected a certain someone….
And the entire American and Soviet space programs, jet engines, National Socialism.
The only thing they really fucked up was not winning WWII. Sad.
A.A. – you forgot to list Wagner twice
🙂
Apologies for the gross oversight, Zeke.
Auntie thinks the German government is trying to attain the final act of this psychotic shit-show destruction of Deutschland by suicide. Again, but this time without any heroes. Alles ist kaput.
Ja, danke Tante.
Conductor Klaus Tennstedt, where have you gone? The orchestra needs you back.
Yea, the German 88 was a truly superb weapon. That and the Hugo Boss uniforms get a big thumbs up from me.
Auntie also failed to include Albrecht Durer (where da heck ist the umlaut when needed?) Arminius, Reisling, and Claudia Schiffer among a galaxy of other great Teutonic people and things.
And Rhien wine. And curry wurst.
Best bbq sauce is Carolina Gold & the redsaucenecks didn’t invent it.
German roots neath Roman boots. Sometimes the roles reverse. Actually, that’s all roles do. Roll- reverse-roll….Ger(exercise)bils gotta be paid, forward & back.