GER politics thread

[Skybird]

[Die Welt] The traffic light coalition wanted to bring forward the coal phase-out to 2030. However, as WELT has now learned, the Federal Network Agency is prohibiting the premature closure of coal-fired power plants. The decision sounds like a vote of no confidence against Economics Minister Habeck's power plant strategy.

[Jimbuna]

It shouldn't be too long before it is revealed Germany is once again obtaining gas from Russia

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

It shouldn't be too long before it is revealed Germany is once again obtaining gas from Russia

Indeed we do. LNG. Russian LNG is on its way to become our biggest LNG supplier. We just pay much more now than via pipeline. I posted on that some days ago.



Its the Germans, stupid. Dont ask for common sense.

[Jimbuna]

Honestly can't say I'm surprised

[Catfish]

And because Germany wants to get rid of this dirty energy aka coal or nuclear power it shuts down all those plants.
And imports electricity from french nuclear power plants that get the nuclear resources from Russia.
Main thing is we have a clean record

[Skybird]

Krinner's Christmas tree stand laws - Resting in the graveyard of failed ideas: the Concorde supersonic aircraft, the Transrapid magnetic levitation train, the Suprenum high-performance computer, the Desertec desert power project and the A 380 wide-bodied aircraft. Quite different: Krinner's cable-pulled Christmas tree stand. What revolutionaries can learn from it.



https://www-achgut-com.translate.goo..._x_tr_pto=wapp

[Skybird]

On overconfidence.

https://www-focus-de.translate.goog/..._x_tr_pto=wapp

Another victim of overconfidence is our Federal Chancellor. Olaf Scholz has been governing the country for two years now. The ship is rocking mightily, crisis after crisis, nothing wants to succeed. But every time the chancellor steps in front of a microphone, you hear him say that people don't need to worry because he is now in the chancellery

The reports in the newspapers? The scowls of notorious badmouthers. The devastating poll results? Pollster mumbo-jumbo that does not reflect the true mood in the country. The depressing economic data? Snapshots that will be outdated tomorrow.

The strange calm is not faked, Scholz really thinks this way. This also applies to his entourage. I met his head of the chancellery Wolfgang Schmidt in the summer. I have rarely seen a more relaxed head of the chancellery. Even in the summer, the situation was not good. At the end of the evening, I wondered what happy pills they were popping in the Chancellery. No matter what was thrown at him, Schmidt responded with the patient forbearance of someone who knows he is in possession of a truth that is unfortunately still closed to those around him.

[Dargo]

I do not know in Germany in the Netherlands they predicted last year an economic depression did not happen it was because of the workforce shortage that the economy did not grow because we can not handle the work with that few people so they not always got it right.

[mapuc]

Again I'm uncertain

Have read somewhere AfD should be forbidden as party
Someone or somebody would try to see if it was possible to forbid the Party.

Markus

[Skybird]

The AfD is about to sink SPD and CDU in upcoming elections in 3 eastern federal states, thats why they try to forbid it. It is set to become strongest party in at least one state, it is possible that 2024 will see the first AfD minister president , though unlikely. SPD could fly right out of the window in two parliaments. FDP is a zombie pretending to be alive.

Its not even that all AfD sympathisers indeed are sympathisers. They just have the nose full of this established radically left scum in Berlin and the way it destroys Germany and the middle class society from within. West- and Eastgermans are ticking quite differently, the Eastgermans are far more suspicous of the party swamp and its dubious ways, also of the state of democracy in general.

When you notice that those against whom you protest do not listen to your protests and continue to destroy the more traditional social order you want to live in, then you naturally start other forms to express your protest.

I am only surprised that it took so long. But then, Germans are raised and formed to be perfectly servile subjects.

The pendulum has swung for half a century to the extreme left, and beyond the border to severe self-damage, and intentionally beyond the border to self-denial. Now it has started to swing back. In later stages that will become as nasty as the left extreme policy making is. As nasty, only at the other side of the swing. Cause and effect. Push and counter push. Action and reaction. Its the established parties and the current government and the Merkel regime (and the EU agenda) that have brought up and have boosted and fertilized the AfD.

[Skybird]

Three uncomfortable truths about the AfD, and the chances to get 30-35% of the votes in the three state elections in Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg this September.



https://www-focus-de.translate.goog/..._x_tr_pto=wapp

[Jimbuna]

Political pressure on Scholz to hand over Taurus to Ukraine growing in Germany

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is under increasing pressure to deliver Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine, according to Rheinische Post.

Politicians from the coalition partner parties, the Greens and Free Democrats (FDP), as well as the opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU), emphasized the need for Taurus and made serious accusations against Scholz.

"The delivery of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine is long overdue. The most effective defense against Russian air strikes is to fire at targets on Russian territory and in the occupied territories in eastern Ukraine, from where Russia launches its strikes," said Sara Nanni, the Greens' spokesperson on defense in the Bundestag.

She noted that Ukraine does not yet have the necessary equipment to do so, not least because Berlin is not supplying Taurus cruise missiles.
"This reluctance comes mainly from the Federal Chancellor and is not a general position of the German government," Nanni said.

FDP defense expert Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann said Germany must finally deliver the Taurus to cut off Russia's supply lines.

"We should not be afraid of our own courage. This is exactly what (Russian dictator Vladimir - ed.) Putin is waiting for," she said.

For several months now, Ukraine has been asking Germany for Taurus cruise missiles. These weapons are capable of hitting targets at a range of up to 500 kilometers.

In October, German media reported that the German government had no plans to supply Ukraine with long-range Taurus missiles in the near future.

Prior to that, The Wall Street Journal reported that the delivery of the missiles was being postponed because Germany fears a direct confrontation with Russia. Berlin believes that to use the missiles, it will need to send its specialists to Ukraine.

In September, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said that the delivery of ATACMS to Ukraine by the United States would not automatically mean that Berlin would "unblock" the issue of the Taurus.

Earlier, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that Ukraine would turn a blind eye to Germany's reluctance to transfer Taurus cruise missiles if Berlin provided Kyiv with additional air defense systems ahead of a difficult winter.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...4cacbbe8&ei=31

[mapuc]

They seems to have some wrong friends these AfD

First the German version
https://correctiv.org/aktuelles/neue...ember-treffen/

For some reason I can't translate from Germany to English.

Markus

[Skybird]

Yup, its making waves currently. Welcomed opportunity to talk about banning them, now that they promise to become strongest party in the three state elections in autumn this year. According to polls they could get 30-35%.

What CDU, SPD, Greens, FDP all have ignored and will continue to ignore, is that they and their policies and their left ideological aim have made the AfD what it now is. And they still all four do their very best to make the AfD ever stronger.

Thats what happens when you got two vaccination jabs and three boosters against learning effects.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by mapuc

They seems to have some wrong friends these AfD

First the German version
https://correctiv.org/aktuelles/neue...ember-treffen/

For some reason I can't translate from Germany to English.

Markus

Strangely enough, your link comes up as the English version on my system.