Actually it was terrorstate usa who pulled the plug. Scholtz was dumb enough to listen to terrorstate USA . Terrorstate Usa put sanctions on every country and firm working on this pipeline ,as it was a danger to the security of terrorstate USA. When terrorstate USA is your friend you dont need an enemy.
The EU and Germany had no problems with Russia until Uncle Sam decided differently. The EU needs to get is priorities straight, Russia is a neighbour the US is not. The US is profiting from this crisis
Sure was, pretty sure Biden said he would "take care it". Maybe he thought Hunter built a secret pipeline to go to his gas wells in Ukraine. The DPR say thank you
Exactly. But not just them. Europeans keeping voting for Globalists that hate working class people with a passion. Then they act shocked when they screw them over
Europe is "FCUKED" period, quote from Henry Kissinger "tho it's dangerous to be America's enemy, to be America's friend is fatal", wish you all the luck Europe for it's desperately needed
I think the interesting thing here is that Russia is even not really doing much. Germany is basically sanctioning itself and them tries to blame it on somebody...
The west wants somethin' for nothin' - they block Russia's use of the euro and the dollar, and expect Russia to sell more gas in euros and dollars ! On top of that, these thieves who talk about international rules stole Russia's money deposits in their banks. I expect Russia to go all out to destroy the west's economy.
@@MrGianeta Germany has not done anything wrong. In 2008, Merkel warned against NATO expansion to Ukraine, explicitly saying it will lead to war. Bush and the US twisted her arm. But she has been proved right. The Americans are an eminence grise for the Europeans, using Europe to advance US interests at the expense of Europe. The only fault of Germany and the EU is that they were not and are not strong enough to refuse America. The Europeans have consented to be America's door mats for too long, and are paying the price for being willing subordinates.
What I don't understand from this discussion is, nobody mention the economic war declared on Russia by Germany or the west under the pressure of Uncle Sam. The Europeans are bearing the pain of the sanctions on Russia
That's the proverbial 'elephant in the room'! Gas has been flowing till recently without a disruption. So dependence has not been the problem. It was the blocking of Russian central bank account, foreign currency reserves and the denial of access to financial markets and to fund transfer platforms that transformed the scenerio. So many Russian industries have been forced to closure by the sanctions. For example the airline transport. Their financial, shipping, insurance, space, oil exploration fields are stuttering without support or western technology . The West has imposed colossal damage on Russia. This energy crisis is a small prize the west has to pay. Wouldn't they have factored this in while announcing the sanctions?
@@waliyassadiq9057 They are all superior to Putin. Did you know that when Putin was running for president the first time, he had the KGB blow up five apartment buildings, killing around 300 Russians? All so Putin could blame it on Chechen terrorists - because he was running on a platform of 'tough on terrorists'. Three KGB agents were caught red-handed planting a bomb in the sixth apartment building. Explosives were found in a storage shed guarded on Putin's orders, inside the same sugar bags that the KGB agents had in possession. I'd suggest you Putin lovers read up on the man, starting with Putin's Kleptocracy. Putin is one sick puppy. He's the northern version of Saddam Hussien, and now he's invading Ukraine in the same way that Saddam invaded Kuwait.
Yes, it would have been better to just bypass the sanctions and everyone pile straightup into war, then we could have all died in a nuclear holocaust by now. At least there appears to be no shortage of gas here.....
Two months ago we were saying that we were going to send russia back to the stone age, and surely the same experts are now analysing the opposite..................IT`S wonderful.
That's why they are experts , they know how the narrative is changing and they change with it . Now the narrative is contain Russia . Yesterday it was stop Russia and the day before it was defeat Russia -- we will celebrate in Moscow the defeat of Moscow .
Someone should be asking Putin exactly that, right? Why isn't he looking after his own people instead of being so obsessed with Ukranians. Especially since so many Russians are actually dying over this. Strange that it doesn't matter to them!
Global security is the number one priority for every popultation. Putin, and an increasingly fascist Russia, is a major threat to global security. From what i see in the UK, there is very little disagreement with how our government is supporting Ukraine. And we can handle a cold winter without central heating!
I was just wondering if Canada had returned the equipment Germany had sent to them for repair. Russia had clearly stated that that equipment is needed to resume normal gas deliveries. This German guy didn't even mention it. The height of hypocrisy. Blame Canada.
Actually Germany has the full responsibility for this "war" in Ukraine: they didn't do anything to make Ukraine to fulfill the Minsk agreement, according to which Ukraine would be whole but with partly Russian speaking Ukrainians. German just went along helping Ukraine to discriminate Russian speaking Ukrainians and hopping that Putin bluffed and would be nice to Germany. And then this stupid Scholz just canceled NSII, good for him! They deserve all what they've got now.
Blame the west period. We are shooting ourselves in the foot. If you were Putin what would you do? His invasion of Ukraine, while wrong, has brought hell and fury to his door. The world is more than the west. He has China, India and a whole host of other countries supporting him. Very shortsighted. Stop sending weapons to Ukraine. You are getting them killed. All the leaders act like spoiled children. Not to mention Ukraine is now becoming a toxic wasteland like Chernobyl. The cleanup will take years. All the bombing of chemical plants, munitions etc etc are destroying the environment. I am sorry for the loss of life🇨🇦
Sitting here in Austria in the exact same boat as Germany, I don't blame Canada at all ... freedom isn't for free! I'm the daughter of an ex-Hungarian who fled 1956 from another Russian invasion to Austria and very willing to spend winter in thick clothes, bc I know from my dad, how dangerous Putin's Russia is and we can't allow ourselves to get blackmailed/held hostage by Putin! There's just no way to give in! But I don't know how selfish my fellow Austrians are.
Invading Ukraine was not a matter of policy but of necessity for Putin as Russian leaders have stressed countless times that NATO expansion poses an existential threat and each time they were dismissed.
Russia has 10,000 nuclear weapons. How can Ukraine looking to the west pose an existential threat to Russia any more than Lithuania joining Nato has posed an existential threat to Russia. Russia has an imperialist mindset.
@@smillner771 First of all, understand that NATO is US led. It is it's foreign policy executor and all its members supposedly enjoy its military protection. Isn't the US a nuclear power? Do you think US will allow Mexico to be a vassal of Russia (turning the table eg)? Quite the contrary it is the US that is the Imperialist. A hypocrite who uses "democracy" and "human rights" to topple distant regimes. Who used nuclear bombs and chemical weapons already? Japan and Vietnam, remember? How many millions of innocent civilians have they killed? Do not simply swallow media narratives. Hypocrisy and lying go hand in hand.
@@smillner771 You know, now that you mentioned the "I" word, I look back to the US has acted since WW2. Clearly, US became the dominant power but as the Dutch, Portuguese, British, eras of the past tells us, you only dominate for a time, lies and hypocrisies have much to do with demise. The US can and will keep making desperate provocations to stay as the world's only top dog it wants to be and it will do so even at the cost of a nuclear war. Add the Arab-Jew hatred into the mix and we are all inevitably headed for the final war.
@@sonusancti The USA accepted (albeit not very graciously) a hostile Cuba that was supported by the Soviet Union (Russia) for many years. Yes, USA is not perfect but what Russia has done in Ukraine is the equivalent to USA invading Cuba or Venezuela. Putin has been incredibly strategically stupid. Likewise Bush / Blair were incredibly strategically stupid to invade Iraq in 2003.
@@smillner771 And US nearly nuked Cuba didn't they? Bottom line is any leader does what it thinks is in its best security interests. The US deliberately pushed Putin to go to war then pin all the blame on him. That's what hypocrites do. The war was another US covert operation to put Putin in the worst possible light and hopefully topple him domestically, their ultimate regime change project.
Let's not forget there was a reason for Nord Stream 2. This pipeline remains filled and ready for use pending German certification. The current reduction is as a result of equipment not being returned due to sanctions. The issue will increase as a planned maintenance shutdown is scheduled later this month. Russia and Putin is a scapegoat for pure German incompetence. Germany and the EU never understood the consequences of their sanctions.
Russia has all the keys in its hand. If gas supplies are halted, the German industry will collapse. Germany as a manufacturing base is key for Europe, including Britain. Germany as a contributor EU finances is vital. Russia stops all supplies to Europe (Britain), gas, oil, coal, uranium, fertilizer, and metals then the EU will collapse.
@@Ofelas1 Again.....Russia hasn't stopped anything. Badly thought out EU sanctions have stopped everything by causing no available method of payment. I suppose Russia was just going to give everything away for the convenience of Europe????
@@Ofelas1 they don't get it, my friend, the exceptional western Lords. Their schizophrenic paranoia, is like the type of metastatic cancer...it's everywhere....all the way down to a great majority of their subjects...I am afraid.
Russia has made a fortune because of the ill thought out sanctions. Oil & gas prices have rocketed. As for pipelines to China taking years to build ? Do you really think that China couldn't build a pipeline in record time ? I wouldn't put my money against that. Also there are many other nations who will be happy to buy Russian gas. Germany is a leading member of NATO, they should have honoured the agreement made with Russia not to encroach on their border through new NATO memberships of bordering countries. Germany should have spoken out at NATO meetings, they should have foreseen these problems. Has everyone forgotten the Cuban Crisis? The US spat it's dummy out when Russia tried to install ballistic missiles there. SO WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THAT AND WHAT THE GOOD OLD USA ARE TRYING TO DO? As for the Ukraine, the Donbass & Crimea have historically been majority Russian, millions of Russians live there, Russia has had a military base/port there for over a hundred years.. The Ukraine was refused membership of the EU because of the corruption that exists there, but also because of the Neo Nazi wing of the Ukrainian army, the Azof Battalion, a nasty political wing who hold great sway in the politics of Ukraine. The speed of the war is slow because The Azof's have been holding local populations hostage in every battle, they've been used as human shields. No the Russians will be fine, they have plenty of friends around the world, countries are waking up to the bullying nature of the US and it's partners in crime the UK & wider Europe
Please stop clouding the issue with actual facts. We should fight the Russians to the last Ukrainian soldier not to mention the utter destruction of the infrastructure of many areas of Ukraine, which will not be repaired without a mega Marshall plan lasting decades.
Oh and don't forget just before Russia went into Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy was caught with corruption, the PANDORA papers had exposed Zelenskyy had money hidden offshore 24 billion USD, so why hide it if it was legit? his salary as president of Ukraine don't match his wealth of 24 billion usd, he would almost certainly be IMPEACHED & jailed if he did not poke the bear(Putin) to march the Russian military into Ukraine
I thought It was EU who was banning RU oil in European union..when they said we can pay higher prices in order to "stick it to Putin" so how is Putin crippling Germany I dont understand ?
What is it you don't understand? When you're mighty foolish you do incredible things and worry about the cost later. Only thing you must mot complain or blame even the Big Boss who egged you on by saying we'll defeat Russia and show them who is boss. Blame yourself. The "freshmen" who took power recently should be voted out. They were the ones who were crowing and all full of themselves. Now we see how conceited they were and inexperienced they are.
Good point. EU also stuck it to the rest of the planet. EU is about 15% of the world's population, but its selfish actions hurt over 80% The people of color will not forget.
I think they thought he would quickly cry and surrender. Imagine dealing with a country that is not full of coddled children and can quickly think to overcome problems. Dear goodness… we should all pray for the West.
But Russia will only want to negotiate with top dog USA something Biden & Co are not interested in. They like the idea of EU sitting deep in their pockets. Top dog loves controlling things. This war and sanctions will only end when they decide so. And BTW, the US does not really stick to all the sanctions, air travel between Russia and Us is still full on.
Russia is directly responsible for what is happening Russia is the only cause, although Germany can be blamed for its naïveté Russia invaded Ukraine Russia is responsible for unfathomable destruction, pain and suffering Russia is murdering Ukrainian civilians wholesale Russia has displaced millions of Ukrainians, they lost their homes, their livelihood and more Russia is destroying city after city right down to the ground Russia is blocking Ukraine’s exports Russia is looting and raping Russia is in the wrong side of civilization
If I were Putin, I would tell Olaf Scholz that: 1) bad news - I have to shut down Nord Stream 1 for maintenance; 2) good news - Nord Stream 2 is up and running - you want oil? But please pay in Rubles.
Has happened already. The news: want our oil? End the sanctions. Get your military junk out of Ukraine. Or freeze back to the dark ages. We are all going to suffer if Germany goes down... My fridge is German. My cooking pots pans are German. My car is German, loads of creams alternative remedies my household use are German, my iron supplement is German, my flower pots are German, my blood pressure monitor is German, I owe my life to German Doctors at Charite Hospital Berlin. My training in alternative medicine was done in Germany. My assistants were German the left after brexit. I don't know about other people but Made in Germany is more palpable than we think.
We in the West always seem to frame our arguments to our advantage so as to always appear in the right. Russia has argued that NATO in Ukraine or arming her poses an existential threat being at its border. Ukraine is losing territory as we speak with closer to 25% captured. Russia has established an endless partnership with China where it can spend its Western cash and trade its energy. Sweden and Norway were quite close to NATO anyway and Russia has threatened that a build-up of NATO capability in these two country will be countered. So I really do not see Russia regretting its actions in Ukraine especially since it has destroyed Ukraine's armament industry and military capability significantly, one of its stated objectives.
That is our colonial history... We believe we are entitled. Just the fact that 30 (White) countries call themselves "The World Community" I fear many believe that is the truth... Why the outrage over some dead Ukrainians... There have been over 400.000 Yemeni's killed AND STILL ARE, no outrage over that... no sanctions over that EXCEPT THE ONES GETTING KILLED ARE ALSO SANCTIONED USA killed 1 million Iraqi's by sanctions and bombings... where was there no outrage over that?? Who got sanctioned??? It could be they were not white... It might not be so BUT it is very easy to imagine there is a racist component to this...
I surprised by how patient the Russians are, they should have turned off the gas to Europe completely and crush their economy within the first few weeks.
The countries that you mentioned that have sanctioned Russia are not the rest of the world, many more countries are doing just fine with their relationship with Russia 🇷🇺
This looks like a meeting of the Knights who say Ni. Despite the posturing, Western sanctions are self-defeating, certainly in the immediate to medium term. This is a war that should never have been allowed to escalate in the first place.
And how would you have stopped it from escalating? This was always on the cards since the invasion of Georgia, was made more likely by the annexation of Crimea and more likely still by the limited invasion of Donbas. So the how, without risking war could escalation be avoided? Maybe it would have been a good idea to allow the Ukraine to keep their nuclear weapons when the separated from Russia.
@@markhutton6055 For over two decades Russian leaders from Gorbachev to Yeltsin and now Putin warned about the West meddling with the status of Ukraine and Georgia. If you're interested - many are not, and simplistically like to see this as a struggle for freedom and democracy - US International Relations academic John Mearsheimer outlines the long established roots of this conflict. A conflict he has been warning about for many, many years.
How is Russia using gas as a weapon?? It was Germany that imposed sanctions, Germany didn't want to pay in Rubels, Germany is sending weapons to Ukraine If it were up to the Russians, it would be Business as usual, full pipelines as it had been for decades (incl. the Cold War)
Russia ❤️ is already cripling EU . Or better said EU is cripling EU , gas shortage is mounting. German energy companies are asking for aid by the government. Multinationals are worried they have to shut down because of gas shortage 🤣. Well Germany/eu said : it was ready to pay the price for supporting the ukranazi. So let them pay .
Listen to geopolitical expert Mr Mearsheimer! A detailed interview with him, UA-cam channel: Jasmin Kosubek Title of the video Wrecking Ukraine: The cost of winning the war with geopolitics expert John Mearsheimer Although he's also American to my knowledge, he said "we" (= Europe/US) made a huge mistake back in 2008 by officially stating, that Ukraine might become a NATØ member in the future, (which wasn't even a real promise to Ukraine). As to become a full NATØ member, there're multiple steps to take/rules to follow strictly and ALL other members need to 100% agree; NO countries with unresolved on-going inner armed conflicts are allowed as new members. Imo, that's very telling in regards to the 8 years of fighting over the pro-Russian DPR/LPR separatist "states" in Ukraine, which were also financed and organised by the Kremlin, known for their track record of using Russian minorities to start wars artificially in other countries; Mr Mearsheimer really has a point here. Not to mention the timely parallels of "motherland Russia" itself starting the official procedures to become a full NATØ member in 2007, but lost their "official maybe-member" status after occupying Crimea in 2014 and they were totally pįssed ... in 2015 there were first reports from Russia strengthening their efforts of breeding/grooming early teenage soldiers, they always did this but it intensified drastically shortly after Crimea; this is also the main reason why we see so many of these videos with 18 -20 year old Russian soldiers/POW captured in Ukraine. (I just found this out accidentally on Google, I had NO clue, Russia had ever attempted to become a NATØ member themselves and basically got kicked out again. I'm dumbfounded!)
Germany is now governed by a neo liberal neo con globalist regime. One masters (America) one house master (British) the rest a long string of vassals struggling for approval from what once was Uncle Sam now wanting to be crowned as the new and only Emperor: America. 85% of the world is saying no to that Russia China taking the lead making the South a far more attractive proposition for humanity and the world.
.....DONT BE FOOLED WE THE WEST (& very soon the rest of the WORLD) ARE IN A WAR ECONOMY...WORLD WAR 3, began 2 mths ago....we'll see an Economic Depression in 9 mths time & be told that we have to take the pain to ensure VICTORY & have them stating we need to tighten our belts & send our YOUNG off to a RIGHTEOUS WAR inorder to fight a "BOOGEY-MAN" u know the same shit they did with WW2....once the ELITES strip the planet of any potential to make a profit, they turn to next easiest distraction a WORLD WAR (inorder to keep PROFITING), this also keeps the slaves from coming for them & their children (who are most likely vacationing on Daddy's Super Yacht, somewhere in the Mediterranean, snorting cocaine off a stripper's cleavage)...its bcz they have raped the world financial system (as they always do) & the only way to cover up all their crimes is to distract us (the slaves) with a WORLD WAR (where they keep profiting even more handsomely) they did the same in WW2, we are just a year or two ahead of 1937, if you know your economic history you will know that after the crash of 1929 & its arduous recovery by 1934/35, the world fell into another deep recession in 1937 & the only way out was to stir up Germany & Japan inorder to stoke a WORLD WAR, the ELITES were petrified that the slaves would come for them, same shit today only the (prepared) enemy this time is Russia & China.. so do the "right thing" send your grandchildren, your fathers, your husbands, your brothers, your sisters, your daughters off to war, so the ELITES children can continue partying up on St Barts & the poor are sent off to war to kill each other......STOP BEING SUCKERS !!!!.........
> Germany has six nuclear power plants that could be reactivated, plus a number of coal fired plants that might, combined with other measures, keep the lights on and jobs working this winter. But that would require political assent from the Green party. How likely is that to occur, and if it doesn't and there is mass unemployment, power outages and heating failures this winter, what does that portend fo the future of the Green Party? From the point of view of the Green Party, isn't this a wonderful opportunity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and be dependent on renewable power? So WHAT if the lights go out ------having reliable power was yesterday's luxury that must be sacrificed on the altar of preventing climate change. No nukes! No coal! No gas! and let the chips fall where they may!
Trump said a few things that were right, but that everyone knew. What they didn't expect was that Putin was crazy enough to actually do it. In this century of time, it seems inconceivable to people in the west that a Russia would act in imperialist ways reminiscent of a hundred years ago. But here we are. So now the west is going to have to put Putin in his place. The two nations to suffer from this the most are, mainly Ukraine (obviously), and secondarily Russia. Europe will suffer too but not nearly as badly as Russia and for far fewer years. Putin has cut the legs out from under Russia for far into the future.
"to create a counterweight to Soviet armies stationed in central and eastern Europe after World War II." (reading from original charter). 2022 charter: "NATO’s key purpose and greatest responsibility is to ensure the collective defence of Allies, against all threats, from all directions. To do this, the Alliance fulfils three core tasks: deterrence and defence; crisis prevention and management; and cooperative security. " There's also a bit of a 3 musketeers-ish, "All for one, and one for all". All in all at least on paper, it seems a conservative deterrent against wars breaking out in Europe. After all, nobody wants to pick a fight if its always going to be with everybody at once. Because of this I'm kind of intrigued at the Middle East NATO idea, and if it would have the same cooling effect. Gods know they need a war deterrent there.
I have to say, I'm surprised by the push back of the recent chat to the video (I only had a cursory look), normally it follows the narrative of what these 'commentators' spew out. To add my 2 cents worth, It isn't Putin who has imposed sanctions on the west, it is the west who has imposed sanctions on itself. Even so, why do they expect Putin to play nice at the same time the 'west' is saying we want regime change by crippling the Russian economy? Btw in terms of oil exports, China now is the number one importer of oil, closely followed by India no doubt. The fact of the matter is, these arrogant arses (western 'leaders') have put the west on the path to economic ruin. There is a freight train coming and it will not show any mercy
@Aureum Scriptum Dude, you got dęlęted, I'm sorry, but at first you really need to learn to decøde such statements to get through UA-cam's keyword filters and it's AI censørship.
The US had the regime change they wanted, but then they got greedy. Even boozer Yeltsin said enough is enough, so they found someone who would put Russia first.
Germany: We support Ukraine and we will stop buying Russian gas *Putin reduces German gas supply German leaders: We did not expect that. We havent thought this far ahead. Plz. More gas
It's not russia who will crippled europe it's america...russia brings progress&development of this country europe thru it's resources, food,gas,oil, metal....what america contribute?misery& catastrophy....
And I’m very saddened about this. Why on earth did EU go the wrong way? They should have turned their backs on NATO long ago. USA and poodle (England) are nothing but evil - Perfidious Albion ‘Plus’.
Absolutely agree. Nothing new there, though. The US has been doing this throught the globe. And now they do it to their "allies" in order to retain hegemony (weakening both Germany and Russia in one go, how practical. Maybe even send EU armies into Russia after the crisis produces more fascists...)
Embarrassingly inept understanding of what's happening. The balance of world power is about to tip over irretrievably to the east. We are living through one of the biggest moments in history.
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 Yet to dawn on The Spectator is the fact that: : The weapons we supplied Ukraine with: - are either blown up captured or - end up sold on the ukraine dark web. The weapons Ukrainian army managed to get their hands on are used to: - bomb Donetsk City, homes, schools, kindergardens, hospitals, bus stops, parks, markets, bring cities villages to rubble when they retreat or fight the Liberating armies by using civilians ethnic Russians ethic Greeks and Ukrainians who do not agree with Ukraine far right and Nazi militias as human shields. Obviously Russian and allied armies are no where near the Ukrainian "fields of Ukraine war crimes" which has been going on since 2014. If the Russians where those missile rocket launchers would be and will be out in a second. Until them Civilians and cities under Ukrainian army control will continue to get bombed and die. The misuse of weapons provided to one of the most corrupt right wing openly Nazi country in Europe courtesy of British tax payer, god fearing civilised British people. The centuries old Defenders of human rights, freedom, democracy, the rule of law, morals and civilisation. Well I am a bit ahead of myself here. Phew 😅. Useful to say providing civilians are not Ukrainian ethnic Russians ethnic Greeks living in Ukraine (since Empreess of Russia Catherine de Great 1762 - 1796). 1564 Elizabeth I used slaves to develop conquered territories Emperess Catherine preferred to integrate Greeks and Russians with rights to the land. Terrible Catherine! Elizabeth I was far more humane civilised morally superior defenately god fearing. Ups I am off again 🤐 Anyway Providing they the other the minorities are one of us we are all above board with our principles otherwise if they happen to be the civilians of Palestine, Mali, Ethiopia, Sudan, Yemen, and Russian then freedom democracy human rights rule of law it's a matter of perspective, debate, philosophical throws: all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than other... ah ah ah, Resounding applause many likes and million of retweets. This reality is yet to dawn on The Spectator and on 90% of the British-English people. The British minorities already this. By experience a war has two sides plus a third the outsider which is to benifit from the spoils of the war. On done side Ukraine on the other Russia and the outsider America, Britain, Europe, supported by western media and the many specialist paid to narrate the scripted agenda. The media manufactures concent for the actions of the state and th army military industry. One side is the outsider target ( they are holding resources we want for ourselves, are becoming too independent, too self assertive, too developed, too ambitious in ending poverty educate their children, open hospitals roads schools- they must come down). On the other side are people whose political elite have something for themselves and are prepared to have their country destroyed its citizens used as cannon fodder. Then the media spins everything to make it look regal. This are heroes. They fought for our freedom, democracy, values de future of our nations. ( because our American British European soldiers are suddenly cowards and can't defend ours?😳. Why Ukrainians. Because it will be more acceptable ATM home. Oh yes our ritish public will not want to see our soldiers die in Ukraine for of resources between America NATO against Russia. Very important. Menai g it can last longer than the 20 years we had in Afghanistan to build five schools made out of clay desert stone and twigs. What a Laught 🤣 So much honour in having Ukrainians die as brave heroes fighting for our (America wars) freedom democratic, moral, civilisation and (American British) values. Rotten as this might be they still are the only true values the world must obey to and follow or die a nobody like the civilians in Mali, Ethiopia, Sudan, Palestine, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Iraq killed with weapons. Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, killed by sanctions. El Salvador, Columbia, killed by gangs war on drugs (Columbia drug cartel financed by the CIA). The Reality of America's British dark states conflict will never Dawn on The Spectator.
It is the case when reading comments is much more interesting than a discussion on the video. It is fascinating that EU is ready to destroy itself just for the sake of proving themselves that they are right in the conflict with Russia. While the rest of the world is not buying their BS.
The rest of the world? There are less than ten countries that are in support of Russia, and most of those are close to neutral and/or have terrible human rights records. One must really have an anti-west chip on their shoulders to side with Russia on this one. Tens of thousands are dead because of Putin's aggression, hundreds of towns utterly destroyed. WTF is wrong with your morality?
I remember the Germans sniggering at Trump when he publically warned them at the UN. They ain't sniggering now - unfortunately they've still got their high paid and lush expenses jobs. Sack em. Cheers Stuart.
The problem wasn't dependency on Russia, but the complete lack of independence in foreign policy. Russia never pushed back with gas until the EU and US stole Russia reserves. The relationship worked well until Germany allowed the US to bully them into supporting a war that Merkel predicted would happen by extending to ukraine
European prosperity is based on cheap energy. Cheap Russian energy. Now you've thrown that away and for what, ask yourselves for what ? The US state department which is obcessed with destroying Russia...for gods sake what is hard to understand ?
@@janestones323 Sure, since 1945 the corner stone of American foreign policy was to drive a wedge between Europe and russia, sadly they have been very very successful !
To replace Russian gas EU would need ALL LNG Qatar produce and 50% of the LNG produced by Australia... This is gas that ALREADY IS SOLD TO SOMEBODY ELSE. It is a SIMPLE FACT. 1 The "replacement gas" SIMPLY DOES NOT EXIST. 2. Even IF the gas existed, the infrastructure does not exist AND LNG COST 4X AS MUCH as Russian pipeline gas AND LNG emits 2X as much greenhouse gases as Russian pipeline gas. The big question is. Is damaging Russia worth crushing European industry??
LNG gas is 3 times more expensive than pipeline gas. So Germany can not replace Russian gas. Germany will be in such a competitive disadvantage that Germany is going into a depression
The Russian already moved to another market in 2014 i listen to interview with the director of Gazprom his words was we make more profit in Asia then in Europe we are committed by contract to continue supplying EU with gas but as soon is expire we will look into committing to new markets.Europe was relaying on cheap natural gas to build their industries is exact same story with other commodities and food now is just awakening to the possibilities of things not been so cheap and countries asking for payments with different currencies the euro and dollar .The whole policy of green energy is done wrong from the start there is no clear planning or replacement for current energy usage and anyone with simple degree in economics knows that consumption of energy no matter where it come from is going just one way upwards.
True. I think the West has mistakenly overestimated themselves in this conflict. The Asian countries and South American countries are not the ones of the past, and they don’t have blind loyalties to the US and EU. They will do what is best for them and if that means taking Russian oil and goods, well they will.
Wolfgang, having concisely laid out his view on the gas shortage situation that Germany faces, would surely be wondering why Germany failed to see the response Russia would have to adding more sanctions to a nation with all that economic and natural resource clout over Europe, which they have never exploited. What could they have all been thinking for so long? Ask Angela Merkel what she would have done.
I think Angela would not have bowed to the USA and closed nordstream 1&2. That's why they waited for her to go and let the liverwurst in charge now to take power.
After what they did to the Greek people; I'm going to relish seeing the germans suffer. Losing 3 years in the EV revolution is going to end up costing them dearly; I simply love it!
The problem is - the whole EU will suffer! This might lead to the dissolution of the EU, because EU is actually a mechanism which prevents the countries of doing sovereign policies. Anyway, let's hope the EU will break and countries can break free from the US control imposed by means of the European Court of Justice.
Europe must never allow itself the luxury of dictating energy supply policy and price while it is so dependant of Russian goodwill to provide it to them. They simply must deal with the reality and check themselves and curb their offensive stance against Russia and be grateful for the energy supply they are getting instead!!
Re the (loaded) question posed in the video's title: yes, Putin could cripple Eu-rope ... if he wanted to. But he doesn't want to. But even if he did, he would have no need to do anything to see that “goal” achieved. This is because, at the moment, Europe is frantically crippling itself ... at the behest of its "good ally," the US, to impose self-destructive sanctions on Russia, the country upon which Europe has a historic dependence for its energy supply. The US wants Russia's vast assets and resources, in part, to keep them from enriching China. The US would happily sell Russian resources to Europe, at a significantly increased price, of course! (Here's where the ubiquitous US projection machine enters, in this case regarding "blackmail.") However, the US would be no less satisfied if Europe had to destroy itself in order for the US to gain control of the Russian wealth.
In 2022 it seams European countries leaderships reached the pinnacle of political and economical idiocy, and who is paying for it? Citizens of Europe. Not to mention that Russia didn't declare war against Europe, whatever biased the view is about the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, it is an issue between two countries, any input from outside could be an input to SOLVE the conflict not FUEL the conflict and end it as a proxy war.
China has enough labor and skill to accelerate the construction of an energy pipeline. In 3 years time China will be even a more industrial behemoth due to cheap energy costs while Germany will deindustrialize due to high costs. The main thing supporting the EURO was fiscal transfers to the peripheral from Germany trade surplus. Germany now runs a deficit.
What Americans and its allies overlooked, regrettably for them, is how much geopolitics is akin to chess. And chess is Russia's national sport. They have the most GMs and US only had one great GM, who is deceased. US has clearly bungled their moves big time. If I were a NATO ally, I would opt for neutrality pronto and take my losses for the sake of my people, not someone else's vendetta.
I have no empathy with what Europe is facing. I remember the Germans laughing at Trump when he told them they were relying on Russia for too much energy.
The same people who think mass immigration of people with entirely different cultures to our own is wonderful, didn't foresee any problem with making themselves beholden to Russia for fuel...even when people pointed out to them that this was insane. In both cases.
You think mass immigration is the problem lol you are getting old not enough children to look after you’re old people and no resources. go and get your mind fixed
@SailorMoon Because Americans are European no1 enemies and have been since the first world war. The US was for a long time invested into breaking all ties between Europe and Russia because Russian resources coupled with EU industry are the only real threat to American hegemony.
@@rb26benjamin8 Sure. Transport? There is a big difference to what is coming down a pipeline and what has to be transported and transferred. Another conservationist fail. While climate panicers are very unhappy about transport for people, they really don't care that the UK passed it's carrying capacity before WW1 and vast amounts need to be shipped in. Very worried about the environment but please keep bringing in more people who will have their daily needs met by overseas shipping.
The earliest Germany or other EU countries will get substantial supplies from Qatar is 2030 since it is Qatar policy to only increase production against long term contracts and their latest increase is committed to the UK that the EU can no longer exert influence over and Boris has said if UK supplies are insufficient the UK will stop flows to Europe not only from the UK's own gas fields but that supplied by Qatar that is currently flowing to the Netherlands. Qatar has called for investment proposals for the next expansion and whichever energy company comes up with the best proposal will get the gas but it took seven years for the last increase so we cannot expect these supplies before 2030. There is also a limit to supplies from the US since the Biden administration is not increasing fracking and their Green policy calls for more use of gas to back renewables. So like Grimm's fairy tales this is another one created by German politicians that will not end well. What was not a wise policy was Germany failing to put pressure on Ukraine to abide by the Minsk Agreement and not supporting Russia's reasonable request for a new security agreement and instead agreeing to commit economic suicide by supporting the US neocon provocation of the war in Ukraine. Russia offered Germany and the EU the perfect partnership of energy and food and a large market for EU goods. This was not a risk to the EU but was a risk to US hegemony which is why we find our selves in the current situation which will throw the Eu into long term poverty. Russia is no worse off for switching off gas and oil now than oil in February 2023 and gas in three years, if that is achievable. As J P Morgan have shown this would put oil prices over $300 per barrel and gas up six to eightfold over the pre war price. Russia will find other markets with lowered sales covered by higher prices with much of the oil finding its way back into the EU at higher prices for refined products which are absent any signature of Russian origin and you are not even talking about food, fertilizers or metals needed for German industry or that NATO is moving to sanction China in the same way as Russia and so bang goes a major market for German goods. Putin has stated his objective is to destroy NATO and the way to do this is to stress the EU economy to breaking point. Stoltenberg in his dreams plans NATO expansion and rearmament but which country is going to be in a position to maintain their present armed forces never mind pay for all this new expensive equipment the US industrial-military complex are salivating over supplying and a reason their neocon satraps started the war in Ukraine.
Bravo, a complete and very well articulated statement, shame that the Spectator doesn’t have some of the commenters from this thread discussing the issue, instead of these two buffoons.
Probably best thinking i heard...There will be no Nato,no Eu,just destroyed european countries...And there is no new Marshall plan,population is too old,Old whore Europe is dying...
.....DONT BE FOOLED WE THE WEST (& very soon the rest of the WORLD) ARE IN A WAR ECONOMY...WORLD WAR 3, began 2 mths ago....we'll see an Economic Depression in 9 mths time & be told that we have to take the pain to ensure VICTORY & have them stating we need to tighten our belts & send our YOUNG off to a RIGHTEOUS WAR inorder to fight a "BOOGEY-MAN" u know the same shit they did with WW2....once the ELITES strip the planet of any potential to make a profit, they turn to next easiest distraction a WORLD WAR (inorder to keep PROFITING), this also keeps the slaves from coming for them & their children (who are most likely vacationing on Daddy's Super Yacht, somewhere in the Mediterranean, snorting cocaine off a stripper's cleavage)...its bcz they have raped the world financial system (as they always do) & the only way to cover up all their crimes is to distract us (the slaves) with a WORLD WAR (where they keep profiting even more handsomely) they did the same in WW2, we are just a year or two ahead of 1937, if you know your economic history you will know that after the crash of 1929 & its arduous recovery by 1934/35, the world fell into another deep recession in 1937 & the only way out was to stir up Germany & Japan inorder to stoke a WORLD WAR, the ELITES were petrified that the slaves would come for them, same shit today only the (prepared) enemy this time is Russia & China.. so do the "right thing" send your grandchildren, your fathers, your husbands, your brothers, your sisters, your daughters off to war, so the ELITES children can continue partying up on St Barts & the poor are sent off to war to kill each other......STOP BEING SUCKERS !!!!.........
Russians have discovered something very interesting in the past few months. Due to EU's sanctions and posturing, the amount of oil that Russia sells to EU countries has been reduced. Yet because the price of oil went up so much, Russia is making just as much money or even MORE money than before, while selling less oil. And the EU countries are suffering economically due to the high energy prices, price inflation of consumer goods is at an all-time high. This is a win-win situation for Russia, and I think they will just stick with it. Reduce the amount of oil and gas by, say 30 or 40 percent. You still make the same amount of money as before the war because of the high prices! Russia suffers nothing, Europe suffers a lot. Makes a lot more sense than cutting off ALL the oil and gas, then Russia makes nothing.
The next domino to fall. Western 'analysts' don't seem to grasp that Putin knows exactly how to maximize his own advantage. The promised sanctions were a flop. These people can't be taken seriously.
Russia makes the same with India and China. Russia is not isolated WE The world ( 15% of the world population) we are isolated. The 85% ( of the no world) we have for centuries dominated through bullying, wars, IMF, NGOs, charity, coups, assassinations, they have turned towards Russia and China. They are facing the future. The question is, Russia is so bad, we hate Russia with a passion, we want to destoy Russia and its people like we did with Venezuela Cuba Nicaragua Zimbabwe and yheirnpeople, what are we waiting for to actually cut Russia oil gas fertilisers food minerals we need to maintain our nuclear energy, why are we waiting for Russia to do that? Are we suddenly driven by courtesy with Russia? Are we afraid of emotional damage more than we are of political economic suicide? English arrogance must very soon become a thing of the past. We are not in control any longer. We now assist prop up fight Uncle Sam dirty wars. Britain is the house master, only. The 85% the world is now searching for leadership based on economic sound policies based on shared respect, win win cooperation and Russia China are offering that. Cut ourselves and let Russia make nothing 😂 ITS ACTUALLY THE OTHER WAY ROUND.
This do not hold allredy China cutting supplies from Russia and how long Russia can give discounts to India or China in energy because those two countries do no get exactly for price what is now .So price of oil going to down soon and Russia going get big problem.
@@janstapaj9689 The Indians are buying the Russian oil for 30-40% discounts, then selling it back to the Europeans for a profit at market price. Then the still import their own supply from the Saudis. The discounts are more about getting favorable diplomacy from the Asian nations on the world stage.
Come winter Putin if he wished could switch off gas and oil to Europe. Plenty of other countries want his gas and oil like China, India, South Africa and Brazil.
The question is why wouldn't Putin turn off the gas to Germany? The Germans are claiming their they will not need the Russian gas in two years, so Putin's best bet is to damage Germany as much as possible this coming winter. Russia will still be able to sell the gas, there are plenty of potential customers.
As always, not responding to the big point: its was europe responsability to do respecting minsk deal in Ukraine but German becoming the usa puppy. The rest is just bla bla propaganda. You will hundertand like Japanese what happening with usa puppy...masochisme politic.
It’ll be a European problem for gas and oil apart from Belarus all due to stupid sanctions,but now roughly 80% of Ukrainian forces are dead or injured how much money has been put into Ukraine and for what as other countries still keep pledging money.
Ukraine selling armament in Ukraine dark web. Check it up. they deliver through Poland. I am sure Boris did not know any of this, or he has merely forgot how corrupt Ukraine has been since independence.
People take a shine to blaming Putin, but face it: Europe pulled this shenanigan on ITSELF, with stupid American Russophobic sanctions, and supporting Ukraine.
Strategically Russia will find more customers in India China, Middle East and Africa. As the West and EU decline in global importance with declining populations, high debt and a transfer of industry into other countries Russia may find a new edge for the future in many new markets. Lets not forget that more than half of the UN countries abstained with sanctions and it will be those countries that will buy Russian energy in the future.
One of the fundamental differences between Russia and the west lead US is that Russia don't have to impress anyone, while here in the west is, one European country trying to be tough on Russia to impress another, its a mob thinking basically. Russia has time and resources, real resources like natural ones. When the winter comes and you can't heat your house and keep your fundamental industries going, the last thing you think about is the expensive European goods. It will be down to the very basics, and Russia have them all. When your economy stops, it means no more income to the country, so how would they invest in new energy sources? Emerging economies will take all that cheap Russia gas and Europe will be playing catch up. Its so unfortunate that our leaders are so hell bend on Russia that they're willing to fundamentally hurt their own people.
@@jonathanbowen3640 You pro US imperialism are funny. First, you force Putin into a corner, using your comedian out for fame and fortune. Then Putin, acting in his country's security interests, which Russia has made crystal clear since Gorbachev btw, gets into a fight with the comedian, as you intended, you also start punching him from behind with your hardest sanctions. And then you want to talk about contracts? Look at you now. Dragging the rest of the innocent world along with your reprehensible narcissistic hubris. US led actions are unpardonable if you ask me.
@@sonusancti Putin needs to understand that Russia as a concept is pretty much over. It's a failed culture and idea. It doesn't work. It will split up over the next few decades
@@jonathanbowen3640 And who are you to tell any sovereign nation what to do? Bad habits really die hard don't they? So America's humiliation comes by its own hands, how ironic and well deserved at the same time.
Exactly Salim, this world economy is interconnected and everyone depends on everyone so why on issue for EU matter but not others? I think uncle Sam controls more European countries than what Russians have influences to them and this is a fact. The EU should work with Russians to shape the future of Europe (Security & Economy) instead of them being dictated on what to do all the time.
>> Todd Stone 3 days ago One thing you can certainly count on is it will be the coldest winter in 50 years, you can always count on God for that.>> Oh dear! Global warming not going to do it's bit?
So the fact that Russia had to cut the supply of gas by 40% because of maintenance to equipment that had to go to Canada to get repaired which was then held in Canada because of the sanctions placed on Russia and therefore couldn't / wouldn't send it back= Russia's fault, you couldn't make it up. if Germany had any balls at all it would have got this sorted and yet they still haven't, also the fact that the EU / Germany decided to absolutely shaft themselves up their own stupid arses doesn't even get a mention. If any of us treated our family / friends the way that the west has shown and continues to treat Russia then they deserve everything thats coming to them, I personally would have shut down just about everything as soon as the Russohysteria started, the fact that Russia has only used the Ruble for payment of its energy / commodities shows us who the sane people are in Europe
It's not 3 years of a bumpy ride for Germany or EU, it's 30 years of high gas prices and death of Green energy transition because of the downturn in the GDP. Pipelines across land is much easier than undersea like Nord Stream. It is the best case scenario that the EU replaces Russian gas in 3 years, every thing has to right and the suppliers need to found and this doesn't account for the price rises.
Best case scenario is to boot terrorstate USA out of Europe . Leave N-orth A-merican T-error O-rganisation and start EUDA European defense alliance including Russia ❤️ This will also be a transition but much easier to do . Europe has the skills to do anything it wants without the influence of terrorstate USA. Worldpeace gets a lot more in reach if we get terrorstate usa out of Europe.
And it's death of the economy. I walked the streets today, imagining how it will look like in 3 years, trees and grass uncut, the road not repaired, the houses falling apart... I can see it coming.
@@ronalddippenaar2381 Trump is not stupid. he is deliberately provocative but saw Russia as a very competitive dictatorship which could be a threat.The Republicans quickly voted to arm the Ukraine when the Russians invaded.
Russia was a reliable Gas supplier for 30 years. EU prospered with industrial production with Russian Energy. USA dont want that and now it stops. The euro fall to dollar parity. The euro dive of the Cliff. We will be poor and no work and energy in the EU.
Remember when Trump gifted Angela Merkle a nice big white serviette. Said she could wave it at Putin when he cut off the gas. Trump thought relying on Russian gas was the most stupid thing Germany could do.
it only became stupid when you spit in their face too. otherwise it makes a lot of sense. Trump was thinking nord stream 2 was a competition to us lng.
So Trump doesn't want Germany to depend on Russia but wanted Germany to depend on them. This is America hypocrisy and hegemony. Check the countries that depended on them and see the repercussions.
Would Britain tolerate an adversary country or countries station heavy weapons simed at it in a neighboring country say France (is the nearest since Britain is an island country)? Of course not. It becomes existential. That is the security threat standing for Russia whether one supports Russia or not.
All this theatre about the Ukraine-war, sanctions, energy-crisis, food-crisis, Putin-obsession, etc., etc. serves ONE goal only: Get rid of Germany as an industrial competitor on the continent, definitively and for good. I humbly call it Morgenthau plan, version 2.0. Coming times will clearly show. Just keep in mind: Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Gideon Rachman, both are from The Chosen People who do not only run THIS show... J.P. Sartre once very aptly said: "If you don't want to use your eyes to recognize, you're bound to need them to cry one day" and that day is near...
It is not possible that a nearly a year of war preparation in the Ukraine-Russia Border not known as war preparation by other Russian politicians. Putin is not a the only man in deciding the war. It is western medias and politicians opinion that positioning Putin as dictator, as they always use to call other western enemy.
It is not a Russian gas embargo. Russia asked for payment in roubles, and not in currencies like euros and dollars which the west chose to make worthless for Russia. Accepting payment in euros and dollars is like giving gas free.
Putin doesn't need to cripple Germany and Europe - Germany and Europe are doing a pretty good job of that themselves.
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True but Russia could give them a helping hand 🎉🎉🎉😂😂😂
I totally agree 👍🏾
Bingo!
Dont forget give thanks to big boss america 😁😄😁
My bad memory, but wasn't it the West, including Germany, who axed Nordstream 2?
Actually it was terrorstate usa who pulled the plug.
Scholtz was dumb enough to listen to terrorstate USA .
Terrorstate Usa put sanctions on every country and firm working on this pipeline ,as it was a danger to the security of terrorstate USA.
When terrorstate USA is your friend you dont need an enemy.
Yes.
The EU and Germany had no problems with Russia until Uncle Sam decided differently. The EU needs to get is priorities straight, Russia is a neighbour the US is not. The US is profiting from this crisis
@@Mongezi44 The UK is equally implicated in egging on a conflict which will harm mainland Europe much more than it will the UK.
Sure was, pretty sure Biden said he would "take care it". Maybe he thought Hunter built a secret pipeline to go to his gas wells in Ukraine. The DPR say thank you
Before I've listened to a minute of this let's be straightforward - Germany has crippled itself.
Exactly. But not just them. Europeans keeping voting for Globalists that hate working class people with a passion. Then they act shocked when they screw them over
Correct, that's what aligning with the US does for you
die deutschen haben sich in beide füße geschossen
@@Nailnuke Aligning with the US or the Democrats. Germany defied the US under the previous administration and now they’re in a mess.
Europe is "FCUKED" period, quote from Henry Kissinger "tho it's dangerous to be America's enemy, to be America's friend is fatal", wish you all the luck Europe for it's desperately needed
If you sanction a country, They have a right to respond what did you expect, Russia to congratulate them.
Lol..😂
I think the interesting thing here is that Russia is even not really doing much. Germany is basically sanctioning itself and them tries to blame it on somebody...
The west wants somethin' for nothin' - they block Russia's use of the euro and the dollar, and expect Russia to sell more gas in euros and dollars ! On top of that, these thieves who talk about international rules stole Russia's money deposits in their banks.
I expect Russia to go all out to destroy the west's economy.
@@MrGianeta Germany has not done anything wrong. In 2008, Merkel warned against NATO expansion to Ukraine, explicitly saying it will lead to war. Bush and the US twisted her arm. But she has been proved right. The Americans are an eminence grise for the Europeans, using Europe to advance US interests at the expense of Europe. The only fault of Germany and the EU is that they were not and are not strong enough to refuse America. The Europeans have consented to be America's door mats for too long, and are paying the price for being willing subordinates.
Germany is occupied and colonised by usa🇺🇸
The EU countries do not need Putin to cripple them. They are doing just fine on their own.
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@carolineleiden,
A circular firingsquad
@carolineleiden..Exactly!
What I don't understand from this discussion is, nobody mention the economic war declared on Russia by Germany or the west under the pressure of Uncle Sam. The Europeans are bearing the pain of the sanctions on Russia
the europeans are the ones in danger of Putins ambitions. the green agenda has left them exactly were putin wants them.
The Spectator is not the source of information it used to be.
That's the proverbial 'elephant in the room'! Gas has been flowing till recently without a disruption. So dependence has not been the problem. It was the blocking of Russian central bank account, foreign currency reserves and the denial of access to financial markets and to fund transfer platforms that transformed the scenerio.
So many Russian industries have been forced to closure by the sanctions. For example the airline transport. Their financial, shipping, insurance, space, oil exploration fields are stuttering without support or western technology . The West has imposed colossal damage on Russia. This energy crisis is a small prize the west has to pay.
Wouldn't they have factored this in while announcing the sanctions?
The West has treated Russia like shit despite them making huge progress as a civilised state and expressing interest in joining NATO.
Sanction backfired too badly.
Imagine saying "when Russia cut off the gas" as you sanction Russia from selling gas to yourself 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣
Idiots is the right term
They want to Determine everything by Themselves,when to Buy and When to not buy.Colonial Mentally and Feeling you are Superior Human being.
@@waliyassadiq9057 They are all superior to Putin. Did you know that when Putin was running for president the first time, he had the KGB blow up five apartment buildings, killing around 300 Russians? All so Putin could blame it on Chechen terrorists - because he was running on a platform of 'tough on terrorists'. Three KGB agents were caught red-handed planting a bomb in the sixth apartment building. Explosives were found in a storage shed guarded on Putin's orders, inside the same sugar bags that the KGB agents had in possession. I'd suggest you Putin lovers read up on the man, starting with Putin's Kleptocracy. Putin is one sick puppy. He's the northern version of Saddam Hussien, and now he's invading Ukraine in the same way that Saddam invaded Kuwait.
@@waliyassadiq9057 Exactly!
Yes, it would have been better to just bypass the sanctions and everyone pile straightup into war, then we could have all died in a nuclear holocaust by now.
At least there appears to be no shortage of gas here.....
Germany cut off Russia through western led sanctions . So don't complain and blame Russia for your cold winter.
The German industry heavily rely on gas not just for heating!!!⚠️🆘.
@DL Fields..Exactly!
Russians are back on foot wining and dining whereas EU are whining and dying (figure of speech)
Two months ago we were saying that we were going to send russia back to the stone age, and surely the same experts are now analysing the opposite..................IT`S wonderful.
the 'experts" are paied mouthpieces and nothing more
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That's why they are experts , they know how the narrative is changing and they change with it .
Now the narrative is contain Russia .
Yesterday it was stop Russia and the day before it was defeat Russia -- we will celebrate in Moscow the defeat of Moscow .
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I don't recall anyone saying that. Who said that, some whack-job on the internet?
The German people will begin to ask if their government's primary duty is to look after their own population or the population of Ukraine
charity begins at home and stays there
U.K. citizens are already asking that question in respect of their own govt.
Someone should be asking Putin exactly that, right? Why isn't he looking after his own people instead of being so obsessed with Ukranians.
Especially since so many Russians are actually dying over this. Strange that it doesn't matter to them!
Global security is the number one priority for every popultation. Putin, and an increasingly fascist Russia, is a major threat to global security. From what i see in the UK, there is very little disagreement with how our government is supporting Ukraine. And we can handle a cold winter without central heating!
Or kowtowing towards US government interest, but not that of German or other EU countries.
Europe has crippled itself by imposing sanctions.
First of all it crippled itself allowing the war which was not in the Europe's interest.
the simplest way out of this for Europe is to make peace with Russia and stop being puppets and stooges for their uncle Sam.
Open North Stream 2 will do for a START
@@nebsta7446 Russia ❤️ wont be that dumb .
Germany/eu said they were ready to pay the price of supporting nazinski and his ukranazi. So let them pay .
If it were 1933 you would be making peace with Hitler. History has seen your kind and what it leads to.
The US is a selfish bitch.
Yes, why did Europe not launch a peace offensive with talks with Russia immediately?
I was just wondering if Canada had returned the equipment Germany had sent to them for repair. Russia had clearly stated that that equipment is needed to resume normal gas deliveries. This German guy didn't even mention it. The height of hypocrisy. Blame Canada.
Actually Germany has the full responsibility for this "war" in Ukraine: they didn't do anything to make Ukraine to fulfill the Minsk agreement, according to which Ukraine would be whole but with partly Russian speaking Ukrainians. German just went along helping Ukraine to discriminate Russian speaking Ukrainians and hopping that Putin bluffed and would be nice to Germany. And then this stupid Scholz just canceled NSII, good for him!
They deserve all what they've got now.
Blame the west period. We are shooting ourselves in the foot. If you were Putin what would you do? His invasion of Ukraine, while wrong, has brought hell and fury to his door. The world is more than the west. He has China, India and a whole host of other countries supporting him. Very shortsighted. Stop sending weapons to Ukraine. You are getting them killed. All the leaders act like spoiled children. Not to mention Ukraine is now becoming a toxic wasteland like Chernobyl. The cleanup will take years. All the bombing of chemical plants, munitions etc etc are destroying the environment. I am sorry for the loss of life🇨🇦
South Park flashbacks
Sitting here in Austria in the exact same boat as Germany, I don't blame Canada at all ... freedom isn't for free!
I'm the daughter of an ex-Hungarian who fled 1956 from another Russian invasion to Austria and very willing to spend winter in thick clothes, bc I know from my dad, how dangerous Putin's Russia is and we can't allow ourselves to get blackmailed/held hostage by Putin!
There's just no way to give in!
But I don't know how selfish my fellow Austrians are.
@@Anita-k Wasn't Hungary an ally of Nazi Germany?
lmao germany closed nordstream 2 put sanctions on russia armed ukraine and now they cry
Invading Ukraine was not a matter of policy but of necessity for Putin as Russian leaders have stressed countless times that NATO expansion poses an existential threat and each time they were dismissed.
Russia has 10,000 nuclear weapons. How can Ukraine looking to the west pose an existential threat to Russia any more than Lithuania joining Nato has posed an existential threat to Russia. Russia has an imperialist mindset.
@@smillner771 First of all, understand that NATO is US led. It is it's foreign policy executor and all its members supposedly enjoy its military protection. Isn't the US a nuclear power? Do you think US will allow Mexico to be a vassal of Russia (turning the table eg)?
Quite the contrary it is the US that is the Imperialist. A hypocrite who uses "democracy" and "human rights" to topple distant regimes.
Who used nuclear bombs and chemical weapons already? Japan and Vietnam, remember? How many millions of innocent civilians have they killed? Do not simply swallow media narratives. Hypocrisy and lying go hand in hand.
@@smillner771 You know, now that you mentioned the "I" word, I look back to the US has acted since WW2. Clearly, US became the dominant power but as the Dutch, Portuguese, British, eras of the past tells us, you only dominate for a time, lies and hypocrisies have much to do with demise.
The US can and will keep making desperate provocations to stay as the world's only top dog it wants to be and it will do so even at the cost of a nuclear war. Add the Arab-Jew hatred into the mix and we are all inevitably headed for the final war.
@@sonusancti The USA accepted (albeit not very graciously) a hostile Cuba that was supported by the Soviet Union (Russia) for many years. Yes, USA is not perfect but what Russia has done in Ukraine is the equivalent to USA invading Cuba or Venezuela.
Putin has been incredibly strategically stupid. Likewise Bush / Blair were incredibly strategically stupid to invade Iraq in 2003.
@@smillner771 And US nearly nuked Cuba didn't they? Bottom line is any leader does what it thinks is in its best security interests. The US deliberately pushed Putin to go to war then pin all the blame on him. That's what hypocrites do. The war was another US covert operation to put Putin in the worst possible light and hopefully topple him domestically, their ultimate regime change project.
Let's not forget there was a reason for Nord Stream 2. This pipeline remains filled and ready for use pending German certification. The current reduction is as a result of equipment not being returned due to sanctions. The issue will increase as a planned maintenance shutdown is scheduled later this month. Russia and Putin is a scapegoat for pure German incompetence. Germany and the EU never understood the consequences of their sanctions.
Russia has all the keys in its hand. If gas supplies are halted, the German industry will collapse. Germany as a manufacturing base is key for Europe, including Britain. Germany as a contributor EU finances is vital. Russia stops all supplies to Europe (Britain), gas, oil, coal, uranium, fertilizer, and metals then the EU will collapse.
@@Ofelas1 Again.....Russia hasn't stopped anything. Badly thought out EU sanctions have stopped everything by causing no available method of payment. I suppose Russia was just going to give everything away for the convenience of Europe????
@@Ofelas1 they don't get it, my friend, the exceptional western Lords. Their schizophrenic paranoia, is like the type of metastatic cancer...it's everywhere....all the way down to a great majority of their subjects...I am afraid.
Correct!
You think life is tough now wait till Biden tells the EU to sanction china
Russia has made a fortune because of the ill thought out sanctions. Oil & gas prices have rocketed. As for pipelines to China taking years to build ? Do you really think that China couldn't build a pipeline in record time ? I wouldn't put my money against that. Also there are many other nations who will be happy to buy Russian gas.
Germany is a leading member of NATO, they should have honoured the agreement made with Russia not to encroach on their border through new NATO memberships of bordering countries. Germany should have spoken out at NATO meetings, they should have foreseen these problems. Has everyone forgotten the Cuban Crisis? The US spat it's dummy out when Russia tried to install ballistic missiles there. SO WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THAT AND WHAT THE GOOD OLD USA ARE TRYING TO DO? As for the Ukraine, the Donbass & Crimea have historically been majority Russian, millions of Russians live there, Russia has had a military base/port there for over a hundred years.. The Ukraine was refused membership of the EU because of the corruption that exists there, but also because of the Neo Nazi wing of the Ukrainian army, the Azof Battalion, a nasty political wing who hold great sway in the politics of Ukraine. The speed of the war is slow because The Azof's have been holding local populations hostage in every battle, they've been used as human shields. No the Russians will be fine, they have plenty of friends around the world, countries are waking up to the bullying nature of the US and it's partners in crime the UK & wider Europe
Please stop clouding the issue with actual facts. We should fight the Russians to the last Ukrainian soldier not to mention the utter destruction of the infrastructure of many areas of Ukraine, which will not be repaired without a mega Marshall plan lasting decades.
oil and gas prices were "skyrocketing" before Russia invaded Ukraine.
@@TheShootist I'll agree with that but you can't deny the worsening since the war and the crazy sanctions, talk about shoot yourself in the foot.
Oh and don't forget just before Russia went into Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy was caught with corruption, the PANDORA papers had exposed Zelenskyy had money hidden offshore 24 billion USD, so why hide it if it was legit? his salary as president of Ukraine don't match his wealth of 24 billion usd, he would almost certainly be IMPEACHED & jailed if he did not poke the bear(Putin) to march the Russian military into Ukraine
Concise, well said
I thought It was EU who was banning RU oil in European union..when they said we can pay higher prices in order to "stick it to Putin"
so how is Putin crippling Germany I dont understand ?
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What is it you don't understand? When you're mighty foolish you do incredible things and worry about the cost later. Only thing you must mot complain or blame even the Big Boss who egged you on by saying we'll defeat Russia and show them who is boss. Blame yourself. The "freshmen" who took power recently should be voted out. They were the ones who were crowing and all full of themselves. Now we see how conceited they were and inexperienced they are.
Good point. EU also stuck it to the rest of the planet. EU is about 15% of the world's population, but its selfish actions hurt over 80% The people of color will not forget.
I think they thought he would quickly cry and surrender. Imagine dealing with a country that is not full of coddled children and can quickly think to overcome problems. Dear goodness… we should all pray for the West.
Blaming Russia for Germany’s misfortunes is insane. This conflict was provoked by us, in the West, and can only be ended by us.
But Russia will only want to negotiate with top dog USA something Biden & Co are not interested in. They like the idea of EU sitting deep in their pockets. Top dog loves controlling things. This war and sanctions will only end when they decide so. And BTW, the US does not really stick to all the sanctions, air travel between Russia and Us is still full on.
Russia is directly responsible for what is happening
Russia is the only cause, although Germany can be blamed for its naïveté
Russia invaded Ukraine
Russia is responsible for unfathomable destruction, pain and suffering
Russia is murdering Ukrainian civilians wholesale
Russia has displaced millions of Ukrainians, they lost their homes, their livelihood and more
Russia is destroying city after city right down to the ground
Russia is blocking Ukraine’s exports
Russia is looting and raping
Russia is in the wrong side of civilization
Because the invading country had nothing to do with the provocation of this conflict? The smooth brain energy in your comment is suffocating.
Poor little Russia - with only 10,000 nuclear warheads to protect itself!
@@IpSyCo your emotions are affecting your thinking ipsyco , you may be better suited in playing video games.
If I were Putin, I would tell Olaf Scholz that:
1) bad news - I have to shut down Nord Stream 1 for maintenance;
2) good news - Nord Stream 2 is up and running - you want oil? But please pay in Rubles.
Has happened already. The news: want our oil? End the sanctions. Get your military junk out of Ukraine. Or freeze back to the dark ages. We are all going to suffer if Germany goes down...
My fridge is German. My cooking pots pans are German. My car is German, loads of creams alternative remedies my household use are German, my iron supplement is German, my flower pots are German, my blood pressure monitor is German, I owe my life to German Doctors at Charite Hospital Berlin. My training in alternative medicine was done in Germany. My assistants were German the left after brexit. I don't know about other people but Made in Germany is more palpable than we think.
🤣😂😂😂😂I'm waiting for that time
Germany already is paying their gas in Rubles
If I were Olaf Scholz I would reply, "You've got a round head."
We in the West always seem to frame our arguments to our advantage so as to always appear in the right.
Russia has argued that NATO in Ukraine or arming her poses an existential threat being at its border. Ukraine is losing territory as we speak with closer to 25% captured.
Russia has established an endless partnership with China where it can spend its Western cash and trade its energy.
Sweden and Norway were quite close to NATO anyway and Russia has threatened that a build-up of NATO capability in these two country will be countered. So I really do not see Russia regretting its actions in Ukraine especially since it has destroyed Ukraine's armament industry and military capability significantly, one of its stated objectives.
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That is our colonial history...
We believe we are entitled.
Just the fact that 30 (White) countries call themselves "The World Community"
I fear many believe that is the truth...
Why the outrage over some dead Ukrainians...
There have been over 400.000 Yemeni's killed AND STILL ARE, no outrage over that... no sanctions over that EXCEPT THE ONES GETTING KILLED ARE ALSO SANCTIONED
USA killed 1 million Iraqi's by sanctions and bombings... where was there no outrage over that?? Who got sanctioned???
It could be they were not white...
It might not be so BUT it is very easy to imagine there is a racist component to this...
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Don't you have your own internet🤣🤣🤣
And Russia manages to frame their arguments in a way that they come across as morons. Also a talent, I guess.
I surprised by how patient the Russians are, they should have turned off the gas to Europe completely and crush their economy within the first few weeks.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Putin is a kind man
how about make money now by selling at high prices and then turn off when they needed the most.
The Russian timings are very crucial.Western Europe
could face a winter🥶❄️
freezing in/22/23⚠️.
You see, they are Chess masters, and making a checkmate in the 4th move has lesser thrill.
What? Europe is crippling itself with the help of the U.S.
Europe is crippled BY the US.
That is exactly what US wanted. But Europian leaders are really authentic idiots, with Boris Johnson as a main cripple.
The countries that you mentioned that have sanctioned Russia are not the rest of the world, many more countries are doing just fine with their relationship with Russia 🇷🇺
The Russiaphobia of this guy (Gideon Rachman) can be felt through his voice.
Probably a grand child of a fascist.
Exactly, this guy calls himself an author and none of what Gideon spoke sounded intelligent.Shameful
This looks like a meeting of the Knights who say Ni.
Despite the posturing, Western sanctions are self-defeating, certainly in the immediate to medium term.
This is a war that should never have been allowed to escalate in the first place.
What do you think the '' nice shrubbery '' will be ?
And how would you have stopped it from escalating?
This was always on the cards since the invasion of Georgia, was made more likely by the annexation of Crimea and more likely still by the limited invasion of Donbas.
So the how, without risking war could escalation be avoided? Maybe it would have been a good idea to allow the Ukraine to keep their nuclear weapons when the separated from Russia.
@@markhutton6055 For over two decades Russian leaders from Gorbachev to Yeltsin and now Putin warned about the West meddling with the status of Ukraine and Georgia.
If you're interested - many are not, and simplistically like to see this as a struggle for freedom and democracy - US International Relations academic John Mearsheimer outlines the long established roots of this conflict.
A conflict he has been warning about for many, many years.
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@Aureum Scriptum
Could Putin cripple Europe? Me think it is Europe crippling itself.
How is Russia using gas as a weapon?? It was Germany that imposed sanctions, Germany didn't want to pay in Rubels, Germany is sending weapons to Ukraine
If it were up to the Russians, it would be Business as usual, full pipelines as it had been for decades (incl. the Cold War)
First genius contract was made with Russia to by pay in dollars or Euro no rubels at all so Russia broke agreement.
Whoever answered to my statement, I can't read what you wrote.. thanks for replying anyways
Exactly.
Europe is pretty good at crippling themselve no help needed from Putin
Russia ❤️ is already cripling EU .
Or better said EU is cripling EU , gas shortage is mounting.
German energy companies are asking for aid by the government.
Multinationals are worried they have to shut down because of gas shortage 🤣.
Well Germany/eu said : it was ready to pay the price for supporting the ukranazi.
So let them pay .
Get your facts right. The Ruble is strengthening and Russia's economy is strengthening. Russia is also winning in Ukraine!
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37,000 Russian soldiers have died. This is winning lol?
how do u no that, are u in d war front chanting d died one, American purpet
U.K. can put sanctions quickly but take 20- years to build Wembley stadium lol
Who one earth would remember Wembley in this testing times. Only a genius. Thanks. you made me laugh of my couch.
What changed Merkel and Sarkozy’s minds after they voted against the expansion on NATO. What pressures were applied.
Very good question.
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Listen to geopolitical expert Mr Mearsheimer!
A detailed interview with him, UA-cam channel:
Jasmin Kosubek
Title of the video
Wrecking Ukraine: The cost of winning the war with geopolitics expert John Mearsheimer
Although he's also American to my knowledge, he said "we" (= Europe/US) made a huge mistake back in 2008 by officially stating, that Ukraine might become a NATØ member in the future, (which wasn't even a real promise to Ukraine).
As to become a full NATØ member, there're multiple steps to take/rules to follow strictly and ALL other members need to 100% agree; NO countries with unresolved on-going inner armed conflicts are allowed as new members.
Imo, that's very telling in regards to the 8 years of fighting over the pro-Russian DPR/LPR separatist "states" in Ukraine, which were also financed and organised by the Kremlin, known for their track record of using Russian minorities to start wars artificially in other countries; Mr Mearsheimer really has a point here.
Not to mention the timely parallels of "motherland Russia" itself starting the official procedures to become a full NATØ member in 2007, but lost their "official maybe-member" status after occupying Crimea in 2014 and they were totally pįssed ... in 2015 there were first reports from Russia strengthening their efforts of breeding/grooming early teenage soldiers, they always did this but it intensified drastically shortly after Crimea; this is also the main reason why we see so many of these videos with 18 -20 year old Russian soldiers/POW captured in Ukraine.
(I just found this out accidentally on Google, I had NO clue, Russia had ever attempted to become a NATØ member themselves and basically got kicked out again.
I'm dumbfounded!)
Germany is now governed by a neo liberal neo con globalist regime. One masters (America) one house master (British) the rest a long string of vassals struggling for approval from what once was Uncle Sam now wanting to be crowned as the new and only Emperor: America.
85% of the world is saying no to that Russia China taking the lead making the South a far more attractive proposition for humanity and the world.
A nutcase country currently attacking Ukraine changed the minds.
Admitting Trump was right must have been painful for Gideon.
.....DONT BE FOOLED WE THE WEST (& very soon the rest of the WORLD) ARE IN A WAR ECONOMY...WORLD WAR 3, began 2 mths ago....we'll see an Economic Depression in 9 mths time & be told that we have to take the pain to ensure VICTORY & have them stating we need to tighten our belts & send our YOUNG off to a RIGHTEOUS WAR inorder to fight a "BOOGEY-MAN" u know the same shit they did with WW2....once the ELITES strip the planet of any potential to make a profit, they turn to next easiest distraction a WORLD WAR (inorder to keep PROFITING), this also keeps the slaves from coming for them & their children (who are most likely vacationing on Daddy's Super Yacht, somewhere in the Mediterranean, snorting cocaine off a stripper's cleavage)...its bcz they have raped the world financial system (as they always do) & the only way to cover up all their crimes is to distract us (the slaves) with a WORLD WAR (where they keep profiting even more handsomely) they did the same in WW2, we are just a year or two ahead of 1937, if you know your economic history you will know that after the crash of 1929 & its arduous recovery by 1934/35, the world fell into another deep recession in 1937 & the only way out was to stir up Germany & Japan inorder to stoke a WORLD WAR, the ELITES were petrified that the slaves would come for them, same shit today only the (prepared) enemy this time is Russia & China.. so do the "right thing" send your grandchildren, your fathers, your husbands, your brothers, your sisters, your daughters off to war, so the ELITES children can continue partying up on St Barts & the poor are sent off to war to kill each other......STOP BEING SUCKERS !!!!.........
The issue wasn't depending on Russia has, the issue was being a puppet of USA to your own detriment.
That pain was well earned and well deserved.
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Germany has six nuclear power plants that could be reactivated, plus a number of coal fired plants that might, combined with other measures, keep the lights on and jobs working this winter.
But that would require political assent from the Green party. How likely is that to occur, and if it doesn't and there is mass unemployment, power outages and heating failures this winter, what does that portend fo the future of the Green Party?
From the point of view of the Green Party, isn't this a wonderful opportunity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and be dependent on renewable power? So WHAT if the lights go out ------having reliable power was yesterday's luxury that must be sacrificed on the altar of preventing climate change. No nukes! No coal! No gas! and let the chips fall where they may!
Trump said a few things that were right, but that everyone knew. What they didn't expect was that Putin was crazy enough to actually do it. In this century of time, it seems inconceivable to people in the west that a Russia would act in imperialist ways reminiscent of a hundred years ago. But here we are. So now the west is going to have to put Putin in his place. The two nations to suffer from this the most are, mainly Ukraine (obviously), and secondarily Russia. Europe will suffer too but not nearly as badly as Russia and for far fewer years. Putin has cut the legs out from under Russia for far into the future.
US prime objective for NATO
1. Keep American troops in Europe
2. Keep Russia out of Europe
3. Keep Germany down
4 - Then, strike Chine. ... Oups .... Were did it go wrong ?
End more. That'll work well.✅
"to create a counterweight to Soviet armies stationed in central and eastern Europe after World War II." (reading from original charter).
2022 charter: "NATO’s key purpose and greatest responsibility is to ensure the collective defence of Allies, against all threats, from all directions. To do this, the Alliance fulfils three core tasks: deterrence and defence; crisis prevention and management; and cooperative security. "
There's also a bit of a 3 musketeers-ish, "All for one, and one for all". All in all at least on paper, it seems a conservative deterrent against wars breaking out in Europe. After all, nobody wants to pick a fight if its always going to be with everybody at once.
Because of this I'm kind of intrigued at the Middle East NATO idea, and if it would have the same cooling effect. Gods know they need a war deterrent there.
Definitely the 3rd is achieved.
I have to say, I'm surprised by the push back of the recent chat to the video (I only had a cursory look), normally it follows the narrative of what these 'commentators' spew out.
To add my 2 cents worth, It isn't Putin who has imposed sanctions on the west, it is the west who has imposed sanctions on itself. Even so, why do they expect Putin to play nice at the same time the 'west' is saying we want regime change by crippling the Russian economy? Btw in terms of oil exports, China now is the number one importer of oil, closely followed by India no doubt. The fact of the matter is, these arrogant arses (western 'leaders') have put the west on the path to economic ruin. There is a freight train coming and it will not show any mercy
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Yup
Look at BRICS.
@Aureum Scriptum
Dude, you got dęlęted, I'm sorry, but at first you really need to learn to decøde such statements to get through UA-cam's keyword filters and it's AI censørship.
The US had the regime change they wanted, but then they got greedy. Even boozer Yeltsin said enough is enough, so they found someone who would put Russia first.
Germany: We support Ukraine and we will stop buying Russian gas
*Putin reduces German gas supply
German leaders: We did not expect that. We havent thought this far ahead. Plz. More gas
Wrong your totally clueless.
yep
It's not russia who will crippled europe it's america...russia brings progress&development of this country europe thru it's resources, food,gas,oil, metal....what america contribute?misery& catastrophy....
And I’m very saddened about this. Why on earth did EU go the wrong way? They should have turned their backs on NATO long ago. USA and poodle (England) are nothing but evil - Perfidious Albion ‘Plus’.
Absolutely agree. Nothing new there, though. The US has been doing this throught the globe.
And now they do it to their "allies" in order to retain hegemony (weakening both Germany and Russia in one go, how practical. Maybe even send EU armies into Russia after the crisis produces more fascists...)
Embarrassingly inept understanding of what's happening. The balance of world power is about to tip over irretrievably to the east. We are living through one of the biggest moments in history.
Most still have a hangover from history yet the future is here
From unipolar to multipolar world - just took a little proxy war.
The Duran is so much more profound than the Spectator's 'Putin is a crazy man' thesis (15:04)
Yep
Cancelling Nord Stream 2 by Germany was cutting nose to spite face..
How many months into this war are we now? The reality of the conflict is just starting to dawn on The Spectator.
Mainstream media coverage of the 8 year old conflict in Ukraine has been even worse than Iraqi WMD.
Ukraine had no chance against Russia.
Think it’s in their DNA!!!! Look what they vote in as parliamentarians, nothing changes!!!
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Yet to dawn on The Spectator is the fact that: :
The weapons we supplied Ukraine with:
- are either blown up captured or
- end up sold on the ukraine dark web.
The weapons Ukrainian army managed to get their hands on are used to:
- bomb Donetsk City, homes, schools, kindergardens, hospitals, bus stops, parks, markets, bring cities villages to rubble when they retreat or fight the Liberating armies by using civilians ethnic Russians ethic Greeks and Ukrainians who do not agree with Ukraine far right and Nazi militias as human shields.
Obviously Russian and allied armies are no where near the Ukrainian "fields of Ukraine war crimes" which has been going on since 2014. If the Russians where those missile rocket launchers would be and will be out in a second.
Until them Civilians and cities under Ukrainian army control will continue to get bombed and die.
The misuse of weapons provided to one of the most corrupt right wing openly Nazi country in Europe courtesy of British tax payer, god fearing civilised British people. The centuries old Defenders of human rights, freedom, democracy, the rule of law, morals and civilisation.
Well I am a bit ahead of myself here. Phew 😅.
Useful to say providing civilians are not Ukrainian ethnic Russians ethnic Greeks living in Ukraine (since Empreess of Russia Catherine de Great 1762 - 1796). 1564 Elizabeth I used slaves to develop conquered territories Emperess Catherine preferred to integrate Greeks and Russians with rights to the land. Terrible Catherine! Elizabeth I was far more humane civilised morally superior defenately god fearing. Ups I am off again 🤐
Anyway Providing they the other the minorities are one of us we are all above board with our principles otherwise if they happen to be the civilians of Palestine, Mali, Ethiopia, Sudan, Yemen, and Russian then freedom democracy human rights rule of law it's a matter of perspective, debate, philosophical throws: all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than other... ah ah ah, Resounding applause many likes and million of retweets.
This reality is yet to dawn on The Spectator and on 90% of the British-English people.
The British minorities already this.
By experience a war has two sides plus a third the outsider which is to benifit from the spoils of the war.
On done side Ukraine on the other Russia and the outsider America, Britain, Europe, supported by western media and the many specialist paid to narrate the scripted agenda.
The media manufactures concent for the actions of the state and th army military industry.
One side is the outsider target ( they are holding resources we want for ourselves, are becoming too independent, too self assertive, too developed, too ambitious in ending poverty educate their children, open hospitals roads schools- they must come down). On the other side are people whose political elite have something for themselves and are prepared to have their country destroyed its citizens used as cannon fodder.
Then the media spins everything to make it look regal.
This are heroes. They fought for our freedom, democracy, values de future of our nations.
( because our American British European soldiers are suddenly cowards and can't defend ours?😳. Why Ukrainians. Because it will be more acceptable ATM home. Oh yes our ritish public will not want to see our soldiers die in Ukraine for of resources between America NATO against Russia. Very important. Menai g it can last longer than the 20 years we had in Afghanistan to build five schools made out of clay desert stone and twigs. What a Laught 🤣
So much honour in having Ukrainians die as brave heroes fighting for our (America wars) freedom democratic, moral, civilisation and (American British) values.
Rotten as this might be they still are the only true values the world must obey to and follow or die a nobody like the civilians in Mali, Ethiopia, Sudan, Palestine, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Iraq killed with weapons. Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, killed by sanctions. El Salvador, Columbia, killed by gangs war on drugs (Columbia drug cartel financed by the CIA).
The Reality of America's British dark states conflict will never Dawn on The Spectator.
No mention of the crippling inflation. Europe’s people will rise up and say enough.
🤣 these 3 individuals discussions totally off the mark! They just reassuring themselves, feel good sessions refused to accept truth 🤣
Hello! You're right. This is the geopolitics of the "dumb and dumber" scale.
They can't handle the truth!
It is the case when reading comments is much more interesting than a discussion on the video. It is fascinating that EU is ready to destroy itself just for the sake of proving themselves that they are right in the conflict with Russia. While the rest of the world is not buying their BS.
The rest of the world? There are less than ten countries that are in support of Russia, and most of those are close to neutral and/or have terrible human rights records. One must really have an anti-west chip on their shoulders to side with Russia on this one. Tens of thousands are dead because of Putin's aggression, hundreds of towns utterly destroyed. WTF is wrong with your morality?
haha, so true - I can't listen to that stupid blabla and am reading only the comments :D
@@AnnaRchy77 me too. They are talking Bs and lied.
The planet wants a multipolar world. Some 75% of the planet remains neutral in this conflict, and the planet will never be unipolar again.
@@44bett Tell it to Putin. He's the murderer.
I remember the Germans sniggering at Trump when he publically warned them at the UN. They ain't sniggering now - unfortunately they've still got their high paid and lush expenses jobs. Sack em. Cheers Stuart.
Warned them what? That Russia was a real and present threat? I think not !
Russia and Europe would be an economic Powerhouse the US doesn't want that.
It is because Germans bend over to their US master against their interest. They are still colony of US as all Europe is.
The problem wasn't dependency on Russia, but the complete lack of independence in foreign policy. Russia never pushed back with gas until the EU and US stole Russia reserves. The relationship worked well until Germany allowed the US to bully them into supporting a war that Merkel predicted would happen by extending to ukraine
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European prosperity is based on cheap energy. Cheap Russian energy. Now you've thrown that away and for what, ask yourselves for what ? The US state department which is obcessed with destroying Russia...for gods sake what is hard to understand ?
The US is also interested in weakening the EU to manipulate it easier
@@janestones323 Sure, since 1945 the corner stone of American foreign policy was to drive a wedge between Europe and russia, sadly they have been very very successful !
To replace Russian gas EU would need ALL LNG Qatar produce and 50% of the LNG produced by Australia...
This is gas that ALREADY IS SOLD TO SOMEBODY ELSE.
It is a SIMPLE FACT.
1 The "replacement gas" SIMPLY DOES NOT EXIST.
2. Even IF the gas existed, the infrastructure does not exist AND LNG COST 4X AS MUCH as Russian pipeline gas AND LNG emits 2X as much greenhouse gases as Russian pipeline gas.
The big question is.
Is damaging Russia worth crushing European industry??
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And this is why Putin would do it, he can Crack EU without firing 1 shot.
LNG gas is 3 times more expensive than pipeline gas. So Germany can not replace Russian gas. Germany will be in such a competitive disadvantage that Germany is going into a depression
It is in US interests to damage Russia and crush European industry.
We need nuclear energy and use our own coal and gas reserves.
The Russian already moved to another market in 2014 i listen to interview with the director of Gazprom his words was we make more profit in Asia then in Europe we are committed by contract to continue supplying EU with gas but as soon is expire we will look into committing to new markets.Europe was relaying on cheap natural gas to build their industries is exact same story with other commodities and food now is just awakening to the possibilities of things not been so cheap and countries asking for payments with different currencies the euro and dollar .The whole policy of green energy is done wrong from the start there is no clear planning or replacement for current energy usage and anyone with simple degree in economics knows that consumption of energy no matter where it come from is going just one way upwards.
Correct, they thought the wind blew every minute and the sun shone at night.
True. I think the West has mistakenly overestimated themselves in this conflict. The Asian countries and South American countries are not the ones of the past, and they don’t have blind loyalties to the US and EU. They will do what is best for them and if that means taking Russian oil and goods, well they will.
We are wildly overconfident and are clearly not assess our blind spots carefully enough.
Wolfgang, having concisely laid out his view on the gas shortage situation that Germany faces, would surely be wondering why Germany failed to see the response Russia would have to adding more sanctions to a nation with all that economic and natural resource clout over Europe, which they have never exploited. What could they have all been thinking for so long? Ask Angela Merkel what she would have done.
Really wish she was around now .
North Stream 2
Its called Ampel and "Die Grünen".
They fkt Germany up with trying to change the electric generators to windmills eventhough we are in a crisis
I think Angela would not have bowed to the USA and closed nordstream 1&2. That's why they waited for her to go and let the liverwurst in charge now to take power.
Germany and Europe must stop being vassals to USA.
After what they did to the Greek people; I'm going to relish seeing the germans suffer. Losing 3 years in the EV revolution is going to end up costing them dearly; I simply love it!
The problem is - the whole EU will suffer! This might lead to the dissolution of the EU, because EU is actually a mechanism which prevents the countries of doing sovereign policies.
Anyway, let's hope the EU will break and countries can break free from the US control imposed by means of the European Court of Justice.
@@AnnaRchy77 The Germans will suffer, the EU will break, and the Greek people will finally be able to breathe. A win win win...
@@oscarm.1417 Your word into gods ear! (as the Russian saying goes :))
Seems like the sort of thing Europe should have thought about BEFORE they put all these sanctions on Russia.
Well before that. This situation was obvious since at least 2014.
Europe must never allow itself the luxury of dictating energy supply policy and price while it is so dependant of Russian goodwill to provide it to them. They simply must deal with the reality and check themselves and curb their offensive stance against Russia and be grateful for the energy supply they are getting instead!!
You think Europeans should be grateful to Russia? lol... should they embrace communism as well or is that in stage II comrade?
Re the (loaded) question posed in the video's title: yes, Putin could cripple Eu-rope ... if he wanted to. But he doesn't want to. But even if he did, he would have no need to do anything to see that “goal” achieved. This is because, at the moment, Europe is frantically crippling itself ... at the behest of its "good ally," the US, to impose self-destructive sanctions on Russia, the country upon which Europe has a historic dependence for its energy supply.
The US wants Russia's vast assets and resources, in part, to keep them from enriching China. The US would happily sell Russian resources to Europe, at a significantly increased price, of course! (Here's where the ubiquitous US projection machine enters, in this case regarding "blackmail.") However, the US would be no less satisfied if Europe had to destroy itself in order for the US to gain control of the Russian wealth.
In 2022 it seams European countries leaderships reached the pinnacle of political and economical idiocy, and who is paying for it? Citizens of Europe. Not to mention that Russia didn't declare war against Europe, whatever biased the view is about the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, it is an issue between two countries, any input from outside could be an input to SOLVE the conflict not FUEL the conflict and end it as a proxy war.
@BuDavid, Amen and Amen!!!!!🙏🙏
After eight years of US/NATO training and modern weapons, Ukraine pushed for the NATO expansion and lost.
Europe only crippled itself while trying to cripple Russia. Big Oof! RIP EUSSR
China has enough labor and skill to accelerate the construction of an energy pipeline.
In 3 years time China will be even a more industrial behemoth due to cheap energy costs while Germany will deindustrialize due to high costs.
The main thing supporting the EURO was fiscal transfers to the peripheral from Germany trade surplus. Germany now runs a deficit.
What Americans and its allies overlooked, regrettably for them, is how much geopolitics is akin to chess. And chess is Russia's national sport. They have the most GMs and US only had one great GM, who is deceased.
US has clearly bungled their moves big time. If I were a NATO ally, I would opt for neutrality pronto and take my losses for the sake of my people, not someone else's vendetta.
The ultimate sign of hubris and stupidity is to blame your opponent for losing the chessmatch
So called intellectuals detached from reality.
I have no empathy with what Europe is facing. I remember the Germans laughing at Trump when he told them they were relying on Russia for too much energy.
The same people who think mass immigration of people with entirely different cultures to our own is wonderful, didn't foresee any problem with making themselves beholden to Russia for fuel...even when people pointed out to them that this was insane. In both cases.
There wasn't a problem, it's cheap energy. The problem is making themselves beholden to the US empire.
You think mass immigration is the problem lol you are getting old not enough children to look after you’re old people and no resources.
go and get your mind fixed
Tell them to buy from algeria Iran and Qatar or even Venezuela they have alot
@SailorMoon Because Americans are European no1 enemies and have been since the first world war.
The US was for a long time invested into breaking all ties between Europe and Russia because Russian resources coupled with EU industry are the only real threat to American hegemony.
@@rb26benjamin8 Sure. Transport? There is a big difference to what is coming down a pipeline and what has to be transported and transferred. Another conservationist fail. While climate panicers are very unhappy about transport for people, they really don't care that the UK passed it's carrying capacity before WW1 and vast amounts need to be shipped in. Very worried about the environment but please keep bringing in more people who will have their daily needs met by overseas shipping.
The earliest Germany or other EU countries will get substantial supplies from Qatar is 2030 since it is Qatar policy to only increase production against long term contracts and their latest increase is committed to the UK that the EU can no longer exert influence over and Boris has said if UK supplies are insufficient the UK will stop flows to Europe not only from the UK's own gas fields but that supplied by Qatar that is currently flowing to the Netherlands. Qatar has called for investment proposals for the next expansion and whichever energy company comes up with the best proposal will get the gas but it took seven years for the last increase so we cannot expect these supplies before 2030. There is also a limit to supplies from the US since the Biden administration is not increasing fracking and their Green policy calls for more use of gas to back renewables. So like Grimm's fairy tales this is another one created by German politicians that will not end well. What was not a wise policy was Germany failing to put pressure on Ukraine to abide by the Minsk Agreement and not supporting Russia's reasonable request for a new security agreement and instead agreeing to commit economic suicide by supporting the US neocon provocation of the war in Ukraine. Russia offered Germany and the EU the perfect partnership of energy and food and a large market for EU goods. This was not a risk to the EU but was a risk to US hegemony which is why we find our selves in the current situation which will throw the Eu into long term poverty. Russia is no worse off for switching off gas and oil now than oil in February 2023 and gas in three years, if that is achievable. As J P Morgan have shown this would put oil prices over $300 per barrel and gas up six to eightfold over the pre war price. Russia will find other markets with lowered sales covered by higher prices with much of the oil finding its way back into the EU at higher prices for refined products which are absent any signature of Russian origin and you are not even talking about food, fertilizers or metals needed for German industry or that NATO is moving to sanction China in the same way as Russia and so bang goes a major market for German goods. Putin has stated his objective is to destroy NATO and the way to do this is to stress the EU economy to breaking point. Stoltenberg in his dreams plans NATO expansion and rearmament but which country is going to be in a position to maintain their present armed forces never mind pay for all this new expensive equipment the US industrial-military complex are salivating over supplying and a reason their neocon satraps started the war in Ukraine.
Bravo, a complete and very well articulated statement, shame that the Spectator doesn’t have some of the commenters from this thread discussing the issue, instead of these two buffoons.
"I was gonna"! An expression from my childhood 50s/60s sums up today's wishful thinking politicians ?
Probably best thinking i heard...There will be no Nato,no Eu,just destroyed european countries...And there is no new Marshall plan,population is too old,Old whore Europe is dying...
the war in ukraine isn't against ukraine but against the EU
.....DONT BE FOOLED WE THE WEST (& very soon the rest of the WORLD) ARE IN A WAR ECONOMY...WORLD WAR 3, began 2 mths ago....we'll see an Economic Depression in 9 mths time & be told that we have to take the pain to ensure VICTORY & have them stating we need to tighten our belts & send our YOUNG off to a RIGHTEOUS WAR inorder to fight a "BOOGEY-MAN" u know the same shit they did with WW2....once the ELITES strip the planet of any potential to make a profit, they turn to next easiest distraction a WORLD WAR (inorder to keep PROFITING), this also keeps the slaves from coming for them & their children (who are most likely vacationing on Daddy's Super Yacht, somewhere in the Mediterranean, snorting cocaine off a stripper's cleavage)...its bcz they have raped the world financial system (as they always do) & the only way to cover up all their crimes is to distract us (the slaves) with a WORLD WAR (where they keep profiting even more handsomely) they did the same in WW2, we are just a year or two ahead of 1937, if you know your economic history you will know that after the crash of 1929 & its arduous recovery by 1934/35, the world fell into another deep recession in 1937 & the only way out was to stir up Germany & Japan inorder to stoke a WORLD WAR, the ELITES were petrified that the slaves would come for them, same shit today only the (prepared) enemy this time is Russia & China.. so do the "right thing" send your grandchildren, your fathers, your husbands, your brothers, your sisters, your daughters off to war, so the ELITES children can continue partying up on St Barts & the poor are sent off to war to kill each other......STOP BEING SUCKERS !!!!.........
Russians have discovered something very interesting in the past few months. Due to EU's sanctions and posturing, the amount of oil that Russia sells to EU countries has been reduced. Yet because the price of oil went up so much, Russia is making just as much money or even MORE money than before, while selling less oil. And the EU countries are suffering economically due to the high energy prices, price inflation of consumer goods is at an all-time high.
This is a win-win situation for Russia, and I think they will just stick with it. Reduce the amount of oil and gas by, say 30 or 40 percent. You still make the same amount of money as before the war because of the high prices! Russia suffers nothing, Europe suffers a lot. Makes a lot more sense than cutting off ALL the oil and gas, then Russia makes nothing.
The next domino to fall. Western 'analysts' don't seem to grasp that Putin knows exactly how to maximize his own advantage. The promised sanctions were a flop. These people can't be taken seriously.
Russia makes the same with India and China. Russia is not isolated WE The world ( 15% of the world population) we are isolated.
The 85% ( of the no world) we have for centuries dominated through bullying, wars, IMF, NGOs, charity, coups, assassinations, they have turned towards Russia and China. They are facing the future.
The question is, Russia is so bad, we hate Russia with a passion, we want to destoy Russia and its people like we did with Venezuela Cuba Nicaragua Zimbabwe and yheirnpeople, what are we waiting for to actually cut Russia oil gas fertilisers food minerals we need to maintain our nuclear energy, why are we waiting for Russia to do that? Are we suddenly driven by courtesy with Russia?
Are we afraid of emotional damage more than we are of political economic suicide?
English arrogance must very soon become a thing of the past. We are not in control any longer. We now assist prop up fight Uncle Sam dirty wars. Britain is the house master, only.
The 85% the world is now searching for leadership based on economic sound policies based on shared respect, win win cooperation and Russia China are offering that.
Cut ourselves and let Russia make nothing 😂 ITS ACTUALLY THE OTHER WAY ROUND.
This do not hold allredy China cutting supplies from Russia and how long Russia can give discounts to India or China in energy because those two countries do no get exactly for price what is now .So price of oil going to down soon and Russia going get big problem.
@@janstapaj9689 The Indians are buying the Russian oil for 30-40% discounts, then selling it back to the Europeans for a profit at market price. Then the still import their own supply from the Saudis. The discounts are more about getting favorable diplomacy from the Asian nations on the world stage.
@@EntertaningAmerica This is not happening in a significant scale.
Come winter Putin if he wished could switch off gas and oil to Europe. Plenty of other countries want his gas and oil like China, India, South Africa and Brazil.
The question is why wouldn't Putin turn off the gas to Germany? The Germans are claiming their they will not need the Russian gas in two years, so Putin's best bet is to damage Germany as much as possible this coming winter. Russia will still be able to sell the gas, there are plenty of potential customers.
They won't pay as well and transport costs are high.
@@julianshepherd2038 The EU is currently buying oil from India.
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As always, not responding to the big point: its was europe responsability to do respecting minsk deal in Ukraine but German becoming the usa puppy. The rest is just bla bla propaganda. You will hundertand like Japanese what happening with usa puppy...masochisme politic.
It’ll be a European problem for gas and oil apart from Belarus all due to stupid sanctions,but now roughly 80% of Ukrainian forces are dead or injured how much money has been put into Ukraine and for what as other countries still keep pledging money.
Ukraine selling armament in Ukraine dark web. Check it up. they deliver through Poland.
I am sure Boris did not know any of this, or he has merely forgot how corrupt Ukraine has been since independence.
People take a shine to blaming Putin, but face it: Europe pulled this shenanigan on ITSELF, with stupid American Russophobic sanctions, and supporting Ukraine.
Rubbish. No one forced putler to invade Ukraine.
Strategically Russia will find more customers in India China, Middle East and Africa. As the West and EU decline in global importance with declining populations, high debt and a transfer of industry into other countries Russia may find a new edge for the future in many new markets. Lets not forget that more than half of the UN countries abstained with sanctions and it will be those countries that will buy Russian energy in the future.
Mhm.
You are a bit blind :))
The story is alot more complicated, and russia planed just half-way
@@wtfatc4556 So a generic statement without anything to back it up. Maybe if you are going to call someone blind put a decent argument forward.
Remember folks, Putin plays chess while Europe plays checkers. What was Germany thinking?
putin plays silly buggers.
One of the fundamental differences between Russia and the west lead US is that Russia don't have to impress anyone, while here in the west is, one European country trying to be tough on Russia to impress another, its a mob thinking basically. Russia has time and resources, real resources like natural ones. When the winter comes and you can't heat your house and keep your fundamental industries going, the last thing you think about is the expensive European goods. It will be down to the very basics, and Russia have them all. When your economy stops, it means no more income to the country, so how would they invest in new energy sources? Emerging economies will take all that cheap Russia gas and Europe will be playing catch up. Its so unfortunate that our leaders are so hell bend on Russia that they're willing to fundamentally hurt their own people.
The US likes this scenario. That’s exactly what they wanted. Total control over the EU.
Small countries imagining the world revolves among them
Did Putin cut your gas or did you refuse to pay him in rubles? You expect free gas? Seriously?
No one is aksing for free gas. The contracts were NOT Roubles.
@@jonathanbowen3640 Are the sanctions part of the contract?
@@jonathanbowen3640 You pro US imperialism are funny. First, you force Putin into a corner, using your comedian out for fame and fortune.
Then Putin, acting in his country's security interests, which Russia has made crystal clear since Gorbachev btw, gets into a fight with the comedian, as you intended, you also start punching him from behind with your hardest sanctions.
And then you want to talk about contracts? Look at you now. Dragging the rest of the innocent world along with your reprehensible narcissistic hubris.
US led actions are unpardonable if you ask me.
@@sonusancti Putin needs to understand that Russia as a concept is pretty much over. It's a failed culture and idea. It doesn't work. It will split up over the next few decades
@@jonathanbowen3640 And who are you to tell any sovereign nation what to do? Bad habits really die hard don't they?
So America's humiliation comes by its own hands, how ironic and well deserved at the same time.
Exactly Salim, this world economy is interconnected and everyone depends on everyone so why on issue for EU matter but not others? I think uncle Sam controls more European countries than what Russians have influences to them and this is a fact. The EU should work with Russians to shape the future of Europe (Security & Economy) instead of them being dictated on what to do all the time.
Well said, excellent points.
One thing you can certainly count on is it will be the coldest winter in 50 years, you can always count on God for that.
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One thing you can certainly count on is it will be the coldest winter in 50 years, you can always count on God for that.>>
Oh dear! Global warming not going to do it's bit?
There's shooting yourself in the foot but Germany shot itself in the face.
What are you talking about. EU has put sanctio s on Russia oil..non sense.
Have I missed something. 1989 end of the cold war yet NATO still in place??? Why ?
Because Russia is still regarded as a threat! Ukraine is an obvious example - along with Georgia, Crimea etc.
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So the fact that Russia had to cut the supply of gas by 40% because of maintenance to equipment that had to go to Canada to get repaired which was then held in Canada because of the sanctions placed on Russia and therefore couldn't / wouldn't send it back= Russia's fault, you couldn't make it up. if Germany had any balls at all it would have got this sorted and yet they still haven't, also the fact that the EU / Germany decided to absolutely shaft themselves up their own stupid arses doesn't even get a mention.
If any of us treated our family / friends the way that the west has shown and continues to treat Russia then they deserve everything thats coming to them, I personally would have shut down just about everything as soon as the Russohysteria started, the fact that Russia has only used the Ruble for payment of its energy / commodities shows us who the sane people are in Europe
It's not 3 years of a bumpy ride for Germany or EU, it's 30 years of high gas prices and death of Green energy transition because of the downturn in the GDP. Pipelines across land is much easier than undersea like Nord Stream. It is the best case scenario that the EU replaces Russian gas in 3 years, every thing has to right and the suppliers need to found and this doesn't account for the price rises.
Best case scenario is to boot terrorstate USA out of Europe .
Leave N-orth A-merican T-error O-rganisation and start EUDA European defense alliance including Russia ❤️
This will also be a transition but much easier to do . Europe has the skills to do anything it wants without the influence of terrorstate USA. Worldpeace gets a lot more in reach if we get terrorstate usa out of Europe.
And it's death of the economy.
I walked the streets today, imagining how it will look like in 3 years, trees and grass uncut, the road not repaired, the houses falling apart... I can see it coming.
Gideon Rachman says Trump has a point? Well I never!
Trump was more enamored with Putin, an alpha male, rather than it being a policy issue. Trump couldn't think that analytically!
@@ronalddippenaar2381 Yes, so enamoured that he warned Germany against him.
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@@ronalddippenaar2381 Trump is not stupid.
he is deliberately provocative but saw Russia as a very competitive dictatorship which could be a threat.The Republicans quickly voted to arm the Ukraine when the Russians invaded.
Trump said careful about Russian gas..... But he also said America first, Why doesn't Germany say ... Germany FIRST !!
Could Russia cripple Germany? Sure it could if it wants to or Germany insisted that Russia do so.
Why is the question could Russia cripple Europe? Because the ones that are crippling Europe are asking the question!!
You poked the bear in the eye. Whose problem, yours of course. The pressure is felt already in Europe.
Russia is not weaponizing gas. If the. EU doesn't want the gas, shall Russia force them?
It will be a beautiful winter, they can go holiday to ukraine to feel more warm 😁😁
Russia was a reliable Gas supplier for 30 years. EU prospered with industrial production with Russian Energy. USA dont want that and now it stops. The euro fall to dollar parity. The euro dive of the Cliff. We will be poor and no work and energy in the EU.
Remember when Trump gifted Angela Merkle a nice big white serviette. Said she could wave it at Putin when he cut off the gas. Trump thought relying on Russian gas was the most stupid thing Germany could do.
it only became stupid when you spit in their face too. otherwise it makes a lot of sense. Trump was thinking nord stream 2 was a competition to us lng.
So Trump doesn't want Germany to depend on Russia but wanted Germany to depend on them. This is America hypocrisy and hegemony. Check the countries that depended on them and see the repercussions.
Putin didn't cut off the gas . USA sanctioned it
Trump is scum like the rest of them. He said that because the US wanted to sabotage Europe.
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Putin should switch of gas and oil to Europe. Because they would definitely do to Russia.
Would Britain tolerate an adversary country or countries station heavy weapons simed at it in a neighboring country say France (is the nearest since Britain is an island country)? Of course not. It becomes existential. That is the security threat standing for Russia whether one supports Russia or not.
Have Germans not heard of wood, wood stoves, and blankets?
If it’s cold, wear a jacket and use more blankets.
Jeeze. I used to think Germans were smart.
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Putin is the best president ever… All power to beautiful Russia 🇷🇺
The Lord is on the Russians side
It is too late now, thank your Prime Minister and Ursula...Germany could have been Russia's friend, but
All this theatre about the Ukraine-war, sanctions, energy-crisis, food-crisis, Putin-obsession, etc., etc. serves ONE goal only: Get rid of Germany as an industrial competitor on the continent, definitively and for good. I humbly call it Morgenthau plan, version 2.0. Coming times will clearly show.
Just keep in mind: Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Gideon Rachman, both are from The Chosen People who do not only run THIS show...
J.P. Sartre once very aptly said: "If you don't want to use your eyes to recognize, you're bound to need them to cry one day" and that day is near...
What a big mistake to go against Russia ! GERMANY you didn’t learn your lesson from HITLER’s mistakes? 😂😂
It is not possible that a nearly a year of war preparation in the Ukraine-Russia Border not known as war preparation by other Russian politicians. Putin is not a the only man in deciding the war. It is western medias and politicians opinion that positioning Putin as dictator, as they always use to call other western enemy.
NATO spent the past 8+ years developing, training and arming a de facto NATO army in Ukraine.
NATO wanted this war, NATO got this war.
@@eleveneleven572 yes, and I think not only 8 but years before.
@@lilikkrismantoro2027 Brainwashing started 30 years before
@@elenagamora448 actually West started to brainwash Ukraine post WWII using ex-Nazi network there.
@@lilikkrismantoro2027 You are absolutely right
It is not a Russian gas embargo. Russia asked for payment in roubles, and not in currencies like euros and dollars which the west chose to make worthless for Russia.
Accepting payment in euros and dollars is like giving gas free.
The majority of global countries refuse to impose your sanctions which are v undemocratic, though!
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Nothing about why Russia invaded Ukraine?
So sad.