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Not if you're a Russian asset. Then it's exactly what's expected of you and you would be doing a swell job!
What's he gonna do abt it?
Nothing. He and his party are as fossil fuel pilled as it gets so he isn't going to do anything about energy which of course plays into Putin's hand.
Wrong. His gov has continued the energy transition, which is a nonpartisan issue in Germany. They disagree about details, not about the direction.
His gov has continued the energy transition
By cutting subsidies for renewables, burdening home PV with increased costs, killing the law to phase out gas heating, lobbying to push back car emission standards?
This is a weird way of saying, they are trying to slow down the energy transition as much as possible while pretending to support it...
Yes, they slowed it down due to concerns about the grid. Naturally, they should just declare the grid construction in the national interest and resort to legal planning via the Parliament. Perhaps this will happen now that slowing down renewable energy production and hydrogen production has become much more costly.
Did they do that by gutting the law that required new heatings to be carbon neutral? Or by planning new gas power stations? Or was it when Reiche decided to stop the funding for small private solar power along with the compensation for putting their excess into the grid? Or when they stopped plans for grid size batteries?
The gas power stations are specified for transitioning to hydrogen in a decade. The revision of the law on heating was dumb populist pandering to boomers.
Hydrogen we don't and will never have in an amount that would allow us to burn it for power. It's the same gaslighting as with the "green stairs" for heating, where is all that biogas or hydrogen supposed to come from? Will it be delivered by the same fairy that will grant us copious amounts of e-fuels? Or could it be, that it is all lies by the fossil lobby to sell their shit for a couple more years?
"Meaningfully oppose the war making Russian gas twice as expensive" would be a good start.
No, it is better to become energy independent, but that is harder and takes longer than a press statement.
I meant in the sense that America sending Russian oil revenue sky-high is currently blowing up in Europe's face in Ukraine, but yeah that too.
And why do we still buy Russian oil then?
But we don't. Five EU countries are still buying russian oil, Germany is not among those. It's Hungary, Slovakia, Netherlands, Croatia and Poland.
https://de.statista.com/infografik/35295/import-von-russischem-oel-in-die-eu/
Ok, I somewhat have to correct myself. It seems like Germany itself does not buy russian oil anymore. However the picture isnt that clear for russian LNG (at least according to what I found).
It looks like, that russian LNG has been banned in March last year (as according to this article). However it is quite hard to find out if we still import russian LNG. Until the end of January last year germany was still happily buying russian gas (source). Since the european LNG network is a shared network it is impossible to determine, how much of russian gas, that still gets accepted at other terminals reaches germany. SEFE (the company that operates the gas terminals in countries like france and belgium) claims, that it is not sending russian gas to germany, but its basically impossible to track the origin and destination of the gas molecules as soon as they enter the pipeline. So while germany itself probably isnt buying it directly, we very probably still heavily depend on russian gas imports (source).
POLAND!?
Poland.
Is he going to stop fellating trump and Bibi now?
Yeah, no shit.
Its Israel and USA that attacked Iran illegally caused the situation. But a chancellor who is involved in murder of 18000 children has no understanding of right and wrong.
Not everything is about Palestine. Please stop hijacking this thread.
Good to know from the elected leader of the party that is the biggest (maybe second biggest) kiss ass to Russia.
What was it, elected with 95%? Putin would be proud.
But I'm sure CDU would be happy to make Deutschland Ticket even more expensive so it's not a real alternative to cars and we still need petrol imports
?
When it comes to kissing Russian ass its:
AFD > BSW > Linke > SPD
Not sure what you mean with elected by 95% when that idiot wasn't even elected chancellor first try.
he was elected as the president of CDU with ~95%
But that is normal among german political parties. Usually, these positions are negotiated and agreed upon beforehand, actually relevant counter candidates are rarely on the ballot. The actual election itself is more like a ritual.
Edit: the comment I answered contained the statement that "putin would be proud".
His party literally has posters on the street stating that "Europe must win. Ukraine must win."
I don't care what they say, I care what they do. Last time I checked EU was buying more petrol from Russia then help provided for Ukraine and a big part of the is Germany.
You are very mistaken.
The top buyers of Russian energy include:
Hungary: 416 million euros ($488m) Slovakia: 275 million euros ($323m) France: 157 million euros ($184m) Netherlands: 65 million euros ($76m) Belgium: 64 million euros ($75m)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/3/how-much-of-europes-oil-and-gas-still-comes-from-russia
When was the last time you checked though? First of March 2022?
Our chancellor is correct and keep the Bundeswehr out of Iran.
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