Germany’s Catastrophic Russia Problem
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I created this video over the past month before the Nord Stream pipeline came under attack via sabotage. Obviously, this is another massive development in this ongoing story, and it is all far from being over. That being said, if you want to view my ongoing coverage of this greater European conflict and Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, you can watch the first 35-minute long coverage of the war that I produced here on Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/reallifelore-modern-conflicts-the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-phase-1
To my European, Ukrainian and German friends and viewers; stay safe, healthy, and vigilant this winter. I sincerely wish you all the best to get through this and I only wish I could do more to help.
Please note that there no notion of a "catastrophe" - we made a research of more than 70 "gas catastrophe" theories, together with USA and German intelligence teams and have discovered that 99 percent of them were directly created by Kremlin
That's unfortunate timing
NS-1 has not been used since early last month and NS-2 was never even finished so the attacks are not expected to have any real effect on germanys energy situation. Just think its important to mention that
Nuclear is clean, safe and reliable.
A day without hypocrisy is a day wasted: western world
Israel illegally occupies golan heights, that's important for their security
USA attacks Cuba, or were planning to attack, that too important for their security
Russia attack Ukraine for legitimate security concern, it's the biggest crime in human history.
Germany should have listened to its neighbours when they were trying to convince them to be more independent from Russia, especially Poland and the baltic states. Writing this as a German.
Remember when Trump called out Merkel for investing in Russian energy deals? The government in Germany did this to their people.
Because comrade Merkel was in charge. Russian were paying the green and other people in Germany, this is why they got rid of nuclear power stations.
Now, thanks to USA attack on Northstream, you ll become "independent", and will pay for liquified gaz from USA x3 or x4 more than before.
Trump warned you guys.
Say what you want about trump but he tried to warn you guys too. Depending on Russian gas was a horrible idea.
I understand why people were scared by Fukushima, and it’s reasonable, but modern nuclear reactor designs are the safest they’ve ever been, especially when built in areas that are relatively safe from natural disasters. I wish more people would give nuclear consideration at least
Though it is getting talked about a bit more lately? Idk if it’s enough necessarily but at least talk is increasing
Fukushima was not the reason. The real reason is much more simple, it was unprofitable in Germany. And it was unprofitable due to its federalism. Germany never and still has not found a final storage site for nuclear waste because the local governors fight succsessfull against them, same goes with the reprocessing plants, burned nuclear fuel that can be enriched and used again has to be transported to France and GB and back again every time causing extreme efforts and costs.
Fukushima finally gave a good opportunity to get rid of it.
Exactly! Remain me, how much persons died on the Fukushima Great Catastrophic Disaster ?
While I generally don't support the development of new nuclear plants, as the timeframe to bring them online is too long and we should build and use renewables by then - that's predominantly from my perspective as an Australian. In Germany, where the plants already exist they should have been mothballed rather than decommissioned, to provide an option for electricity production that doesn't have significant emissions while also reducing the reliance on Russia.
@@Potato-dx5mc No one actually died directly because of Fukushima. I think the all deaths happened during evacuation.
There's a pretty good quote from a former swedish primeminister, Göran Persson, back in 2006 or 2007. When asked why he was skeptical to Nordstream he said something akin to "because it is russian, and it contains gas".
Med några klassiska inandningar emellan självklart.
ah men synd att USA och NATO sprängde den
While that gives me a great chuckle I can also see how its easy to twist it and say that comes from some kind of misplaced nationalism instead of a valid criticism. Russia has been lying through their teeth for decades but people that pointed it out were shunned as wierdos by the people on their paystub. Gerhard being a great example. If only Ursula would have asked the average Russian citizen if they felt like the rule of law was being observed lol, next she is gonna tell us how democratic North Korea is because it sais so on the wrapper.
The U.S blew up nordstream tho. We as germany couldve had way more influence on russia if the pipeline would still be intact. Everybody acts like this war could be won on either side. It cant, we have to find a solution that ends the killing.
Well German here from 10 months later. This Video describes the fear that many Germans had before the winter pretty good. And yes the temporary increase in cost was a huge burden for German households. But luckily the winter was pretty mild and you forgot to mention one vital fact. Germany doesn't rlly have a lot of debts compared to other countries in Europe so while we try to avoid this we can always throw money at any problem if need be. Which is exactly what we did to fill the gas reserves. Also the LNG Terminals are more or less on schedule, one is in operation and ppl are starting to doubt if we'll even need all 5. Nuclear is completely faced out by now, the effect of that on the energy market was despite the worst fears more or less non existent. Also the Government increased its effort to build more wind and solar and so far 2023 is the best year we've ever had regarding renewable energy production. The only effect that still sticks is that we're more reliant on our good ol coal than we planned to be, but from the looks of things that will be but a temporary setback. So yeah much was feared, surprisingly little happened.
That's because you have burned your gas reserves and burning more and more coil besides making "clean" energy sources. It takes some time for the effects to come. Also the electricity has skyrocketed. Many German industrial companies are thinking of closing plants and go in other countries. Wait for Winter 2023-2024 and update us.
You are wrong. In 2014 Ukraine quickly reduced consumption of gas from Russia. Consequently it led to sharp downturn of its chemical industry. Ukraine closed down almost all its fertilizer plants. Furthermore Ukrainian steel production crippled down. Ukraine lost half of its GDP even before the invasion.
As for Germany, BASF has already shut down a fertiliser plant in Ludwigshafen and many more are to be put off operation. Alumina production facilities are also being closed down across Europe. Steel production seem to be inefficient in Germany and partially be reduced. Germany is on the track of deindustrialization. US and Qatar LNG being more expensive can certainly be used for warming German households in winter. But LNG for industrial use in Germany is not economically viable.
@@vicdor1031right, plus it's so early to be saying "oh everything's alright"... These things take *time* to realize the full devastation of stupid decisions/actions. Germany has crippled herself for the future. They will no longer be the powerhouse they once were, & that spells bad news for an E.U that relies of Germany for so much... Ask me again in 10-20-30 years what this so-called "net-zero" has done for Germany & Europe as a whole.
German, actually a well educated here, and let me tell u all, this guy talks bullshit.
The effects are ultra heavy, energy costs are at an all time high and rising even more (maybe that strange guy above me cant read or understand his energy bills lol), the economy fell into recession because of mainly that and many MANY more producing companies are warning without actions against it they will deport their companies to other countrys or simply close all business at all and it wont be better in the next months. Taxes and social costs are getting insanely out of control because the invasion of antigerman/antiwhite "refugees" is still happening and at the same time we now have hundredes of thousand ukrainians to supply as well (most of them are actually really women and minors). BUT finally people wake up, demanding new nuclear power plants, demanding right wing policies and the blue party (here it is right wing) is thank god getting more and more and more acceptance and votes in the next important elections comming up this october and more imporantly the big election in 2025 for a new federal government.
@@wetzlarerjunglol doomposting false info epic
Real life lore is gonna need a entire playlist just for catastrophic gas problems
Enchilada night?
a catastrophic gas problem for me is like eating too much taco bell ngl
What’s crazy is the Trump administration warned them about the Russian resource dependency and said to act quick to diversify their gas from Russia before anything bad happens, everyone laughed. We all know who’s laughing now
@@Racko. Trump is the best. If he was reelected the current mess wouldn't even happen.
Trump was an awful president, but he was correct about Russia and China. I just hope Americans can learn to separate the things he was right about from his persona.
I think Germany tying itself to Russian gas will be seen as one of the biggest strategic blunders in history.
Trump called it and everyone laughed and gaslit.
UwU
@@luism5514 trump Jesus Christ ffs 🤦♂️
Yes you’re right, some imbeciles are giving trumpy the credit for pointing this out. The same trumpy who sided with putler over his own intelligence services 🙄
@@Kodakcompactdisc He isn't wrong. Trump tried to warn German politicians and they literally laughed at his speech. Pride before the fall and all that.
One thing to note is, that the overdependence on Russia was the intentional attempt at pursuing good relations through trade. Like after WW2 when the EU formed to make Europeans' economies so interdependent, that it would be too costly for everyone to have wars. It was thought, that Russia wouldn't be stupid enough to tank their economy and kill their only exports by, for example, invading Ukraine. They would never be that crazy.
Everyone forgot that we are dealing with russians
Russia: *replaced government with anti west*
europe: haha i still buy all russian gas1![!1
@@sealand9049 yep, mistake to assume they would be rational
That is an excellent observation. Giving everybody a chance to prove themselves is important. EU had good intentions
The difference between Europe and Russia is that European economies are based on human labor. Russia uses oil, gas and other resources. Russia needs only 20-30% of its population.
I find it fascinating that this one video is more valuable for understanding the current conflict with Russia than the entire coverage of the topic in German TV for the last couple of months.
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25:50 he makes a pretty fair point
Yea never been a fan, but gotta say right when right
Dr. Beau, enriching his international knowledge...you're my fav CZcamsr by the way
*drops charge into the Trump was right jar*
yeah he could have phrased it better but the point hes trying to get across is valid.
The US is dependent on Chinese cheap labor same way Germany has Russian gas. You set yourself up for failure.
It’s a shame the people who make these decisions largely avoid their consequences, but still reap their benefits
Germany is still paying for its sins for WW2
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@@ll4680 It's honestly getting a little annoying with how much they flagellate themselves with it everytime in their cultural and social ethos. It's honestly like they're trying to look like the victims at this point. Get over it already Germany. We have, well we might still make some great WW2 jokes but it's all in good sport, you guys can stop hurting yourselves now and have some pride and dignity and tell the immigrants to fuck off and integrate already lest moustache man 2 comes around.
shutting down the clean energy nuclear plants is the stupidest thing they have done like ever, i dont understand people who are against nuclear energy its the greenest and most efficient energy source humankind currently has.. shutting down ALL nuclear plants is a pinnacle of idiotic decisions made
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Alternative title: "How Germany shot itself in the foot"
Wouldn’t be the first time either
"Just the foot for now"
German here, gotta applaud the accuracy and especially those details like the BER disaster leading to low faith in German construction projects. You might have added that Germany has some minor gas reserves that could be accessed by fracking. There's an ongoing discussion in the Northern states about if and how to access those.
What’s the mood right now among the German people in regards to the war?
@@aklimar2208 there's mainly 3 types of opinion regarding the conflict. There's one camp that's completely brainwashed, who refuse to accept reality, throw around their "Slava Ukraine" without even knowing where this slogan came from and casually call anyone a Russian troll for merely stating an opinion that isn't 100% pro Ukraine. The second camp is the opposite of it, but very very small. It's people who actively support the Russian efforts. You don't really hear a lot from them or see them, you only hear their opinion in private conversations, because it has become a big risk to state unfavorable opinions in Germany over the past 5 years without fearing some sort of repercussions. The third camp are the anti-war people. These usually rely on rationale and diplomacy, who actually know historical backgrounds, don't eat the propaganda from both sides and usually try to look at the whole thing from a neutral, emotion-free perspective. They are still way smaller than the first camp. If I had to guess, I'd say it's around 70% for the 1st camp, 2-3% for the second and around 27-28% for the third one.
@@PvtAnonymous Thanks for that breakdown.
@@aklimar2208It's more like this:
The old left and the new right are united in their opposition to any government policies.
Today their is not much of a difference between them...how that happened?
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-> "NSDAP: National Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter Partei: aka the Nazi Party" okay, okay it makes sense.
For the right it is all about the EU, and for the left it's all about the US-"Empire".
Time to worry about Germany, maybe? 🤔
@@aklimar2208I am german he just talks shit
I distinctly remember a minor fight I had with a friend a few years back. He's American, I'm German.
I believe it was shortly after the annexation of Crimea. I must have been in my mid-teens at the time.
In any case, he was pushing for a position that takes more direct opposition against Russia. "First Ukraine, then Poland and then we'll have to bail your asses out." or something along those lines.
I scoffed at him "Conventional warfare is dead. It would be uneconomical for the Russia, wouldn't be worth it. They only managed to pull Crimea because they could stage it as a peaceful take-over of territory that has historical ties. There's no way for them to pull a move like that anywhere else." or something along those lines was my reply.
I felt quite smug. Mentally putting away his concerns as "Those crazy Americans still living in the Cold War."
Haven't talked to him in years. In fact, I don't think I have any remaining routes through which I could contact him.
But sitting in this here chair, in Germany, in the year of our Lord 2022, I feel very, very foolish and I cringe at the conceit I had shown my friend during that conversation.
Simply because I couldn't fathom that my comfy life could ever be different. After all, "Its 20XX and I live in Western Europe, what's the worst that could happen?"
your leaders made a call and it backfired horrendously. unfortunately there is no further recourse now besides going forward
Have you ever spared a thought about WHY Russia has done what it's been forced to do? Do you know even a little geopolitics in Eastern Europe?
I just don’t understand why Germany sanctioned Russia. I can understand becoming energy independent and sanctioning Russia. I can understand remaining dependent on Russia and refusing to sanction Russia. But I can’t understand why Germany would remain dependent on Russia AND sanction Russia.
What did the Germans think was going to happen???
@@OGPatriot03 I'd like to think I do understand Russia'a geopolitical reasons. However as you might imagine, the fact that this is in Russia's geopolitical interest is of very little concern to me, as I have diametrically opposing geopolitical interests.
"The western hypocrite reveals his true colors, he claims to care about Ukrainian sovereignty when all he cares about is his own interest: western power at the expense of Russia" and all that
@@freakout3516 At least you admit to being a warmonger who "peacefully" uses information as a weapon of war to regime change anyone disloyal around the entire globe.... The west is causing the instability.
Closing their nuclear power plant and replacing them with coal and gaz was an abysmal decision...
You can not be sure of this. France is currently relying on Germany for energy, because their Nuclear plants are betraying them and are just not putting out enough energy
Now it’s just going to be tedious to switch again
Easy to say in hindsight
the Energy Discussion is a real mess here and no one likes it... ok ERW likes it they run the Coal Power Plants and payed the Politcians so they where ofc happy...
Especially considering they used the Fukushima disaster as justification for their decision when it wasn't even nuclear power that was the cause of the disaster in the first place.
It was actually the refusal of TEPCO to move the emergency diesel generators above sea level even though they had been warned by experts of the risks for decades.
The emergency shutdown of the plant was going as planned until the emergency diesel generators were flooded stopping the cooling system from functioning.
Germany deserves everything it gets for their terrible decisions they've made, and compromising their own national security.
They should also be held responsible for financing this war and pay their fair share to rebuild Ukraine instead of relying on the US.
You have no idea how upset I was when I first heard that Germany was shutting down its nuclear power plants, and now, hearing about them having a major energy crisis, I just want to cry.
Owen you know what the real sad thing is? If Schröders Energiewende would have come to fluition, we would be nearly independent enough in the energy sector, but 16 years of Merkels corruption ruined that!
It's also because former of Kanzler Gerhard Schröder. He seems to be a very good pal of Mr A..Hole Putin🤬
I remember 12 years ago, after Fukushima, when the general German populace was suddenly all about ending nuclear power, the government at the time decided to "listen to the people" (Well, will of the people and all. Can you fault them?) and accelerated the exit from nuclear energy. I was like "oh no. please don't." but even smart people in my circle back then were like "but the DANGERS of nuclear power! The RaDiaTiOn." and it was just so irrational and emotional. As if nuclear power generation was somehow this barely understood black magic thing, that no-one could control. Fukushima was terrible alright but these "once or twice a century"-disasters just pale in comparision to the damage done by coal & gas (never mind about the dependency on Tussian oil & gas we managed to maneuver ourselves into...)
And most of the time people were saying "We'll build up sustainable energy power". Well that didn't fucking happen, did it?
And now people are saying "let's get back into nuclear power!" but it's too damn late. We have already decommissioned most of our nuclear power plants and It takes forever to build new ones and any person with some knowledge on the topic will tell you that it would have been a good idea a decade or two ago but the window of opportunity has long closed and we REALLY need to get on the renewable energy path right the fuck now. But wouldn't it have been cool, if we had a bunch of nuclear power plants still running instead of STILL relying on so much fossil fuel power in our energy mix? But yeah, we're turning off the last three nuclear power plants in the next couple of months and that's that.
Great job everyone.
Silver Lining is that the war in Ukraine is FINALLY accelerating the political will to improve our sustainable energy production efforts.
Look to france, they didn't shut down theirs and now have to buy energy from germany because their Nuclear Power plants are threatening public safety. Germany did the right thing in shutting down nuclear power olants for a multitude of reasons, our mistake was building nordstream 1 instead of using our own resources. Under Nordrhein-Westfalen, the west of germany, is a natural gas reserve which isn't being used. But instead of developing it we build nordstream 1 for reason i will never understand
@@paulszki I agree with almost everything you said, but I don't think it's too late. People ignore that there's been major advancements to the technology, and I can't even blame them because noone talks about them.
Is this channel just one guy's work? The production value is insane
You should get nebula.
@@Chobaca I subscribe to NEBULA, it is painfully slow - barely watchable.
@@Fastlanedann works well for me. Might it be something on your end?
Actually we 4 people working on this stuff together
I love how poland built their LNG port literally as far away from russia as possible... lol.
And as close to the entrance of the Baltic Sea as possible
LNG isn't any more economically viable as a basis for Polish industry then it is for Germany's.
The video explains why it's too expensive, but natters on about it endlessly anyways.
@@gandydancer9710 It's not "too expensive". Germany just wanted the gas much cheaper, so that their industry would have major advantage over the rest of Europe. They ignored the risks associated with depending on Russia for crucial resources, because they thought others (Ukraine, Baltics, Poland) would bear the cost if something went wrong, and Germany would remain relative safe. Besides, there are other projects like the Baltic Pipe, linking Denmark and Poland to Norway's offshore gas fields. LNG simply provides more flexibility. And Poland isn't the one facing a catastrophic recession.
@@zlosliwa_menda We danes are also re-opening our Tyra gas field in the North Sea. It was closed back in 2019 due to reconstructions / maintenance due to operations having lowered the seabed by 5 meters under the platforms. Once up and running again somewhere in 2023-2024, Denmark will be able to provide natural gas again, as well as cover our own needs.
Unless it starts reporting leaks
Trump said a lot of junk but that clip, where even he sees the problem, shows how naive Germany was.
No he didn't, he was consistently correct, and the media always laughed at him...
@@finish_my_projects My problem, and mind you I voted for Trump both times... Is that the way he speaks tends to downplay what he's talking about. While I agreed with what Trump said here, I had to cringe because of the way he said it.
Good ideas, bad explanations.
@@finish_my_projects I'm NOT saying that Trump is a genius, I'm saying that Trump is just NOT an idiot! 🎤💧
@@finish_my_projects Lmao. Trump is an idiot with no clue about most things. Trump is basically the kid who didn’t study for a test and answered randomly on every question. Yeah, he actually got 15% correct through random chance, but he was wrong on the rest. You seem to be type of person to just believe anything the media feeds to you like a gullible sheep. Learn to question if what is being fed to you is factual or not.
Broken clock is right at least once a day.
21:40 You say that german government has received a lot of pushback against Nord Stream, but the picture shows a PRO Nord Stream demo xD the banner "Gas aufdrehen" literall means that they should start operating the pipeline
As a german I love how accurate this video is to a point of explaining exactly how the citizens reacted to certain decisions our government did. I even learned why some decisions were made. I would love an update on this topic as the video is a few months old already. But whoever researched this, did such a great job!
I'm sure there'll be more, just a lot to talk about atm. I know I sound like an ad right now, but I actually took the offer to get curiosity stream and Nebula and have been impressed with the amount of resourceful content on there.
@@andrew5821 I would have done the same but I don't own a credit card and apparently thats the only thing they take.
the only sad thing about it: it is not true. but you are right, it is a nice story for people, who like catastrophic storys. its only failure: it doesnt happen in reality in germany. why i know this? i live there. no energy shortages. no freezing. no hunger. no plundering. no chaos. only a few people with crazy stories.
@@12flame21 Ja, das ist nicht das worauf ich hinaus wollte. Ich rede von der Recherche wie die letzten Jahre hier dargestellt wurden. Und ich habe auch alles mitbekommen. Aber ja, meine Heizung war auch zu keinen Zeitpunkt aus. Hatte es immer schön mollig warm!
@12flame21 I don't mean to speak about your country as if I know more of it than you, but I believe what the video is getting at is that the crisis is looming, and the German government is scrambling to remedy it before the energy issue winter comes around. The citizens may not feel it at first, but once the emergency supply runs out its dangerous waters
Germany's biggest mistake in my opinion was shutting down its nuclear power plants. Germany is not in an earthquake rich environment and it could have been able to take countermeasures. it was a step back and one that now bears consequences
It was a blatant bandwagon. They knew ot was an easy way to appease voters so they jumped on it and shut down their nuclear plants and threw even more money at Putins regime. It's laughably stupid for some many countries to keep shutting down nuclear when it's our best alt for fossil fuels.
25:00 I think Trump was a fool but it pisses me off that he was right about Germany tying a noose around their necks and handing the other end to Russia by shutting down their nuclear power plants and buying more and more Russian gas
I agree. Japan also turned its back towards atomic energy since the fukashima disaster in 2011. The anti atomic power plants movement in Germany really got going after the Cernobyl disaster in 1986. Lets not forget the green party was born in Germany and they have gained a lot of influence over the years . The French get 70 % from atomic power stations and export a lot of it too.
@@robertmanfredthurrigl9424 The French are a big thing people forget when it comes to nuclear energy. People always hold up the poorly maintained, poorly run, outdated Chernobyl or the freak accident at the poorly located Fukushima when it comes to nuclear disasters but forget that that France has been using mainly nuclear energy since the 70s without any noteworthy incidents and the US was the first to have any major nuclear programs, was a major innovator in nuclear energy/weapons, and has been using nuclear energy since the 50s with only 1 major incident in nearly 80 years of their nuclear programs.
Kind of pisses me off how people tend to fixate on major disasters/incidents without really focusing on WHY they happened. Often nuclear programs get hamstrung or are set up to fail: they cut funding, dont modernize or update, fall behind on maintenance, start cutting corners, and then act surprised when something finally fails after ignoring warnings for years or even decades about the impending failure. Even when accounting for the disasters though nuclear power still costs fewer lives and less pollution since things like coal also release radiation in low but steady amounts and all the air pollution from gas and coal costs lives. Most of the disasters could be averted if they committed to nuclear energy rather than committing, pulling back, changing their minds, committing, changing their minds again, and trimming back funding.
It seems to me that they lost all marbles "going green" without thinking of consequences, I thought german people where clever..
Agree.. was just stupid and a simple crowd pleaser
A geographically stable country ditching the entirety of nuclear power because a country sitting on five major tectonic plates suffered a terrible earthquake and subsequent tsunami which damaged a power plant is pretty short-sighted.
Well many get this wrong. the Atomaustieg was started 2002 was reverted 1 year before Fukushima and then the Ausstieg vom ausstieg vom ausstieg nuclearexit revert exit with high payments to the nuclear power plant firms that they do it again. This whole thing is longer running and more complicated. Would even say that the Nuclear power discussion has been done so many times in Germany that people are happy when they are gone already so this Discussion will not be started every few years again and again.
The anti Nuclear movement is even older like since the 80s and was big in German Speaking country's.
Nuclear is one of the most expensive ways to create electricity when including the massive subsidies. Although Germany doesn't really have earthquakes, it does have flooding rivers and nuclear plants are always next to a river for cooling water, so it's not danger free either. It's also not reliable as this summer has proven in France: Almost half of their nuclear plants had to shut down due to maintenance and low water levels (lacking cooling water). Germany literally had to bail out the unreliable French nuclear system. There still is no solution for the waste that has already been created - half a century of the smartest people considering it and spending billions and still no solution... so the final cost of storage can't even be calculated, yet. Also where would the nuclear fuel come from? Because Russia and Kazakhstan (close Russian ally) control over half of the global supply of Uranium.... again, the ability to be blackmailed by Russia is still there with nuclear plants. Germany also doesn't have former African colonies like France to provide fission material. By the way, one of these colonies - Mali - is being taken over by Russia right now. France is slowly retreating from there. They'll be vulnerable in the future too.
Additionally, even though the risk of a disaster is very low, the consequences are so bad that it could mean the collapse of the entire country. Gorbachov (leader of the Soviet Union at the time of Chernobyl and the collapse of the Union) wrote in his memoires that Chernobyl was probably one of the major reasons the Soviet Union collapsed - thousands of direct deaths, more than half a million people having to help with the clean up, spending billions just to mitigate the damage and having to abandon a lot of fertile land for the coming centuries... This is more damage than anything else humans can do outside of war times. For a country like Germany with a higher population density it would be even worse.
Quitting nuclear is not as irrational as pro nuclear people like to pretend. Especially if you don't actually need to produce plutonium for bombs - if you build bombs you might as well get electricity while producing the plutonium. But Germany vowed never to produce nukes, so... yeah.
I mean I get your point but not creating tons of radioactive waste that’ll take thousands of years so it isn’t deadly anymore is shortsighted?
I personally also prefer nuclear energy but we can’t ignore the fact that we still don’t have a solution on what to do with the waste.
@@zahisunohr Nuclear waste = bad. All other forms of non-renewable energy = worse.
And the $ per kW/hr for nuclear is cheaper than all other forms of energy once the power plant is built.
@@thulyblu5486 You make it up as you go along; if you were posting on a site that required citations and sources for claims you'd be kicked off pronto. Solar and wind are the subsidized technologies, not nuclear. Many people die every year from cancers caused by radiation released from coal burning plants, while the first person has yet to die from radiation released by any operational nuke plant. There is no shortage of Uranium ore, Canada alone could serve the world's needs, uranium is merely another commodity. Fukushima, was near the worst case imaginable, yet there has been no significant ecological damage from the accident. Nuclear power is the cleanest power of all, it is actually cleaner than solar; the manufacture of solar panels is a dirty business ecologically speaking. Nuclear power plants have nothing to do with plutonium production, that is done in a different kind or reactor. Waste is not an actual problem, anywhere behind a fence works fine.
Your vids are so interesting, thank you for making and sharing them :)
could you possibly provide links or origin of your facts for citing purposes? Great videos, but I was doing something for class and not sure if this video alone is good enough for proper citation.
Wow I never thought I would say this. But the way Donald Trump summarised it was totally on point. He was absolutely right and very straightforward. How can you stand together if you are paying billion of dollars to someone you want protection against lol.
Because the other side is hugely dependant on that exact money. Putin just doesn't care about his countrymen
So where the Greens in Germany - it was only Merkel, her conservaitve party and the social democrats, that really loved the idea of being dependent on russia.
Yeah, it was kinda surreal. The only reason I knew it was actually him is that he rambled in circles for a minute to say something that could've been said in 10 seconds.
Trump have many businesses of his own in Russia, so he should be able to understand it - at least on a personal level.
@@OwlMoovement if he said it in ten seconds, the media would simply use it out of context to slander him again. By doing it in a minute, they can't take it out of context.
Im from Germany and can say this is the first crises that you notice in you’re daily life. Everything cost around 20% more than before February.
It’s not critical but it’s very hard especially for poor people…
Can German industry exist without cheap gas?
Hey, I'm also from Germany and I also notice it especially when I go to stores to buy, for example. food.
@@anonymousAJ it seems like it works and it’s not as bad as everyone will tell you but it’s so surprising that notice it at that level for example corona yes noticed it obviously but there were no shortage and nothing cost that much but now noodle for example cost around 30 % more and gas cost twice that much and for country that was on the best at building for the future this ist very sad because merkel etc stopped 10 years ago.
@@anonymousAJ Well, German industry has been dealing with Russian gas delivery shenanigans like this even before the Soviet Union collapsed. I think, it will continue doing so.
@@anonymousAJ Yes. Reason being that Germanys key exports is not material - it’s skill. Our best companies are almost pedantic in their efforts but this makes them some of the best as a collective and gas was a good option _as long as it remained available_ . Essentially, industrialised nations can go through transition periods if the the damage is not fatal and recover and even emerge strengthened. Is there a chance of failure? Sure. There always is.
But it’s not a very high chance thanks in no small part to the fact that Europe can not risk to loose such a big component of its industrial architecture in key sectors.
Aka: some loss will be tolerable but only up to a relative extent, after which Germany, which is for example actually a very important provider for income to poorer regions in the EU due to internal EU migrant workers, an often overlooked component in Europe’s economy, becomes too big too fail. Aka, sure it would temporarily benefit a bunch of European countries if their competition went out of business but Germany IS, especially in the long term, integral to a lot of plans regarding the EU and high losses of it its industry would certainly result in more political influence from China growing stronger, because essentially, the cheap gas from Russia financed a lot more things in Europe than just German growth, which often was generated in the EU anyways.
If that sounds overly complicated: Germany has enough resources, both human and otherwise to recover and even if some sectors will shrink, there won’t be a collapse because while Russian gas is significant , the only reason why it was not replaced is because it was cheaper than the alternative.
The more interesting question is: will Germany loose competitiveness? For the short term, yes, for the longterm no.
The difference to a place like Russia is that Germany already has got a thriving industrial sector aso. , it knows the ropes, it can adjust to changing economic climates and while it’s not a fun process, it’s a highly plausible one.
I love all the nuances explained and how complicated world politics really is.
Unfortunately always has been/always will be.
Thanks for great content
FYI for Americans: In Germany, gasoline is priced in Euro cents per liter. Converting both the units of measurement (1 gallon = 3.785411784 liters) and money (1 EUR = 0.980352 USD), the €2.109/L price for the lowest grade of gasoline shown on the sign at 6:27 works out to $7.83/gal.
In Cali, at Costco, just paid $1.60 a liter , that is, after the conversion…my buddy paid 2 euros a liter a few days ago…Right now, the dollar is higher the euro…not a big deal and the US drills, Germany doesn’t…
At least you have good public transportation and it's not hard to live near you work
@@paxtoncargill4661 in the (bigger) cities, yes. Public transportation in the countryside sucks in Germany.
gas prices in my part of germany went up as far as €2.90/L which is $10.73/gal. thankfully prices are now going down again.
@@lcdh5601 @Paxton Cargill it even sucks in most but the biggest metropolitan areas. I live in a city with nearly 200.000 residents and most lines of Public Transport only run at a half hour to hour turn, with some lines so long, you have to ride them for almost an hour to get to a destination that can easily be reached within 10 minutes by car from the same starting point.
And another info from a German:
We weren't naive or didn't know about this risk.
It was actively ignored and downplayed.
They didn't want to bite the feeding hand.
We dont call it corruption, we call it lobbyism.
And we don't really have anyone left thats not in some lobby or the other.
Its not illegal here.
Lol
Problem with Germany is taking HALF MEASURE
Jap Politiker Arbeiten nicht für den Bürger sondern Lobbyisten d
and what about Kremlin's minions like G. Schröder, Die Grünen and all that Energiewende crap?
Has their position changed?
Someone watched Neo Magazine Royale yesterday ;)
lol du hast neo magazin royale gesehen, oder
Wow this is an amazingly great breakdown
I found my best CZcams channel ever. I watch and leave a like on every single video you upload.
Germany didn't need to get rid of nuclear in the first place. It's one of the safest and most power efficient sources of power and the problems of the geography of Japan are not the same as Germany. There is a nuclear plant within an hour drive of my house and I feel as safe as can be because I know the workers there know what they are doing and that it is safe from natural disasters.
I agree, it's definitely the most efficient and cleanest energy we got. The biggest downside obviously is the long time storage of the waste, but honestly other countries manage to somewhat solve that problem as well, so why should'nt we be able to do the same?
@@David-pi4hx the storage isn't even that difficult. All the nuclear waste ever produced in all US nuclear energy production would fit on a single football field as a stack 22 feet tall. And 95% of the energy is still in that waste, and can be reclaimed with newer reactor designs.
@@David-pi4hx I agree, nuclear power is not as bad as people make it out to be. Everyone always points to Chernobyl and Fukushima. However, those 2 incidents occurred from some dumb decisions. Such as having the generators on Fukushima in an exposed position in the basement. With Japan being prone to earthquakes, with many generating massive tsunamis. It was just a ticking time bomb. Chernobyl happened from some dumb policies from the U.S.S.R along with other issues. Nuclear is one of the best and safest energy sources. And with new modern advancements, it will soon be even safer. There are plans to eliminate nuclear waste all-together with coming advancements. It is clear that Germany’s decision to phase out nuclear power was a dumb one. And it has been a big reason that they are in the trap they are in right now.
@@dtroy15 yeah and after how many years it is as radioactive as the raw uranium they take out of the ground?
600 years i think,
alot shorter than all the claims of "thousands of years of radioactive waste" i heard throughout my life.
and atleast it stops poisoning the enviroment after a few hundred years,
noone cares that much about all the tons of permanent forever poison mercury and lead and arsenic and cadmium etc. that we put into the enviroment each year.
@@dtroy15 practically all of the nuclear "waste" produced, can then be recycled into fuel and be used by the same reactor(s). there's virtually no waste with nuclear
I remember studying this very topic when I used to study Geopolitics, it always was a ticking timebomb the warning signs were there from early the late 2000s with the issues in Georgia then the annexation of Crimea in 2014
If you fail to prepare then you prepare to fail
Yeah once again corruption destroys such easy avoidable problems. And now the Greens which were pushing for the stop of relying on Russian energy is getting bashed because the corrupts don’t wanna get blamed🤷♂️
...and if you provoke, then you will earn the deeds! True, Germany should*ve been more of a moderator between the warhawks of the USA and Russia!
@@horsthelge2336 oh be quiet with your moot point… Germany is part of alliance and Russia doesn’t belong to it… it likes Russia then it should outright ally with it… if not that then be quiet please with your pointless fact
@@horsthelge2336 USA didn't invade Ukraine, Russia did with German funding.
the video is complete nonsense! There are open documents about the negotiations, Western countries themselves imposed sanctions against Russian banks through which payments for gas were made, as well as they themselves did not want to commission Nord Stream 2. The gas crisis in Europe was caused by the United States, which literally banned the supply of Russian gas to Europe, this happened long before the war in Ukraine! In this story, everyone loses - Ukraine, Russia, Europe. It is the USA that wins. This is their war, like many conflicts all over the planet before. This video is either pathetic propaganda or incredible stupidity
Great video!
Five month later it turns out it's fine. No catastrophe, no energy crisis. Things are more expensive, but that was to be expected if Russia blows up the world trade system by going rogue. But we can afford it.
There's a lot of criticism of Germany for its energy policies, but the only thing that really didn't work was that it failed to prevent the war in Ukraine. Everything else turned out to be alright or manageble.
The dependency to russian gas was an intentional interdependency and it worked quite well. It was not in our interest to mess with Russia and it wasn't in Russias interest to mess with so. Therefore energy supply remained remarkebly stable and yes, also cheap. And both sides left each other (mostly) alone and in peace. Where it failed was to factor in third countries, Ukraine in this case. The system didn't protect them and when Russia made the decision to attack them, *we* were the ones who wanted to break out of the interdependence with Russia. They would have just kept on trading and supplying us with energy, and they still did for months even though the relationship aready had deteriorated to a full blown ecenomic war. I'd call that quite stable (but not unbreakable). But as we can see now, it's not in our immediate intereset to cancel this relationship, but if we really want to, we can. It's just expensive. So it's not like we ruined ourselves. We upheld a wealth creating system for decades (also peace creating, at least between Russia and Germany) and now it broke, but we can afford to quit it.
Other problems mentioned in this video are also overblown. Electricity for example isn't a big issue and therefor quitting Nuclear power isn't either. In fact, we still mostly exporting power (quite a lot to France, who face more problems with Nuclear power than we do...). And renewable energies *can* supply our electricity. We're not *that* cloudy and wind-still. It just needs to be built up and that's what's happening (too slowly...). The missing natural gas is mostly a problem for our industry, but this problem was solved by throwing money at it. A recession was therefore avoided, let alone a catastrophic recession.
Both claims seem insane to me, for a simple reason: Germany still has massive stocks of coal, and the plants to use it in. As the crisis boomed, Germany (and some others btw) used that option, greatly reducing the amount of natural gas needed.
That is, Germany always had the choice to stop the energy transition. Sure it doesn't cover everything, but it averts most of the worst. The only question is whether it would, and that's hardly a question. As you say, there's still a significant problem remaining; and afaik Germany currently is still helped by remaining Dutch contracts (you may imagine how the Dutch feel about those). It's not out of the woods yet. But it can weather the worst.
But it does have consequences. Germany was the flagship country for the energy transition. Now it has thrown it away, over a mid-sized war, a thousand kilometers away, that it isn't even in. Not to solve the problem, but to mitigate it. The rest of the world will inevitably consider that in its decisions whether to try for that transition.
To close: if that sounds accusatory, it is not. I only warn Germany not to evade its own responsibility by blaming Russia. It made its own decisions that led up to this. It also makes its own decisions to weather the storm. It's a sovereign nation. As long as it only harms itself, the world just benefits, being able to learn from its failures.
Most seem to forget that as reallifelore said, germany is a very manufacturing heavy country, which made the insanely low gas prices of Russia very appealing. Company's like BASF are providing thousands of very well paid and save jobs, and that's probably to a big part thanks to the low gas prices they had to pay over the last decades
My wife is from Ludwigshafen and a lot of her family works for BASF on the Rhine. I go there once a year. That plant is a city unto itself.
So it's totally fine to not feel bad about germans, considering they literally tied themselves at the hip to their worst enemy for decades now.
This is that short-sighted greed that people accuse Americans of, Germans have literally intertwined themselves with Russia so much, and they have paid so very little to secure otherwise.
Compare how much Germany pays for their military versus america, do you ever wonder why so much of Europe has universal healthcare? Because America pays for their military. And what does Germany do in return? Bet the lives of their workers on Russia not being a bad boy.
I will never feel sad for the Germans that lose their jobs over this, this was incredibly obvious to happen, some might say inevitable, and yet the Germans built a Jenga tower around Russia. This is their fault, and the lives of many Germans are about to change thanks to their poor planning.
Security goes way ahead of anything else. Didn't make any sense to put Europe in such a bad position.
Those jobs are not so safe anymore.
@@Thecommander248 which is extremely concerning considering that BASF does manufacture, among other things, fertilizer absolutely critical for food production
This account really loves the word “catastrophic”
That an emphasizing every adjective like an autist
Wow great video
Germany put itself into this position with years to fix it and instead spent their efforts on N2 instead of backing away from russia
And instead of properly funding their military with tents and standard NATO equipment, they worried more about promoting trans officers into upper management.
I'll dust off an old chestnut from the first half of the 20th century: "FUCK GERMANY, yo"
That’s called corruption.
@@FR-oz9px Lobbyism*
@@lordmilchreis1885 Corruption with fancy name, because it's the West™
@@FR-oz9px Its called capitalism. Crazy I know
I knew how bad the energy crisis in Germany is but this video helped me UNDERSTAND how bad it really is.
German industry wouldn't be possible without the cheap Russian gas. While German people were protesting in the streets to have Nordstream 2 opened, USA blew it up, to take away Russias leverage on Germany. This will ensure Germany buying all the LNG from USA that they can deliver. And it's going to be very expensive, and bankrupt industries and private households.
Germany isn't "in for a hard few months" or "having their resolve tested". Germany already has over 90% of its required winter stock of oil and gas in storage; people are openly saying they'd rather wear more sweaters than give money to the russians; public support for Ukraine is sky-high, and that's not even counting the mild winter that's predicted. This video is pure hysteria, misinformation and sensationalism. I don't know why Real Life Lore has gone from an educational channel to this level of nonsense. But "testing their resolve like NOTHING EVER BEFORE has"? "Quite literally staring down the barrel"? Quite literally practically 100% prepared for winter. I cannot express enough how absolutely hysterical this video is.
They need to start talking peace.
@@shannonballspen1s482 Peace negotiations can only start if you are in a winner position.
The video had a major flaw though. It depicts gas flow as if it were all consumed by Germany. However, other countries use a lot of German gas tanks to store their gas, so lots of gas going into Germany also leaves Germany. Germany simply acts as a huge transit state. Those countries never complained about the cheap gas ;) they also could've said that they wanted a safe gas supply without Russia and pay the higher price, but they didn't. So don't blame Germany alone for being a central hub. Many other European countries wanted it that way and we're too cheap to implement their own infrastructure.
VERY VERY WELL DONE!!! THANK YOU!!
Update: We have the middle of December, temperatures have fallen below zero. The people are chilled (not literally tho) despite the difficulties. I don't know anybody who would go to the negotiating table. Not now, not in the next 3 months. After that the Winter is over.
I find it hilarious that basically all of the ex-soviet nations knew to not trust Russia and Putin at all yet a lot of people in the West chose to completely ignore it. Makes those 'shirtless Putin riding a bear' memes/jokes hit differently.
Not really he had a reason to go to war you look at russia as a big bad when really it's just like any other place
Garbage. Putin is a masochist, he is constantly trying to negotiate. Memes about cool Putin are just memes. He may be better than Biden, but he does not reach the level of Churchill's historical figures.
Leftists are deeply stupid.
Imagine being so laughable you think those ex soviet nations are relevant to the policy making in the west LOL
@@dt-lg2oc "any other place" being nationalist dictatorship bid on conquering neighbours while commiting unimaginable amount of warcrimes and threatening the world with nuclear war? Yeah sure, just average country.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the oil reserves found in Ukraine that also happens to be the same places Russia is currently occupying. I learnt it on this channel haha
he does mention this in his modern conflicts series on nebula
yeah i was asking myself that too "didnt he mention in one of his previous eps about a massive natural gas field in the Luhansk/ Donbas region that was discovered around 2010" haha
Now part of the Russian Federation. There fixed it for ya 😉
@@Stash186 not for long
and surprisingly coincide with the areas that are populated by russian speakers who have been shelled by ukrainian military since 2014....
very informative.
One thing that's wild and sad to me about all this is knowing how close to home this hits for a lot of people here in the states too. Obviously the closer you are the more it impacts and I truly wish the best for everyone there.
I used to work at this park doing kayaks and I had a lot of kids come and hang out with me and would offer to clean boats for free rides, there was this one family and kid Natikita who we would talk and I can't remember what was said exactly but I had mentioned or asked if he was Russian, this kid was always so nice and happy, he instantly got annoyed and was like "NO! NO, NO I AM NOT A RUSSIAN! THEY ARE BAD EVIL PEOPLE" then he kind of told me a little bit about what was going on and his family moving here. No excuse but I'm just some American in Florida I had no idea about any of that stuff going on, this was a couple years back and I haven't seen him since to talk to him about any of this but I really wish his family and others that were able to make it here the best and safety.
The boy was influenced by Zelensky's drug addict propaganda and you easily believe everything you are told.
You expressed regret about what is happening far from America, but did not express regret that since the beginning of the 20th century your country has fomented at least 36 wars, and your government is to blame for what is happening now, not Russia at all.
I hope that karma will not wait long and the fire that you sow around the world will flare up in your home! That you really have reason to be sorry. You consume 3 times more than the rest of the world, and that's not enough for you... walking chunks of fat.
I remember when Trump addressed this at the UN and the German delegation just laughed hysterically
Yep. He saw this scenario play out years in advance. Big media did him and effectively the Western world dirty
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
And now the people are suffering because of their incompetence
@@conors4430 except for Biden
@@conors4430 how's biden doing?
Germany: "We need more green energy!"
Also Germany: *Shuts off nuclear power plants*
They have picked their hill to die on...
Not to mention Germany isn’t really at risk for anything that Japan was except flooding but Germanys diverse geography should avoid that situation especially in its mountainous southern regions
Yeah I'm not sure why we're trying to get rid of our reactors. They provide more than enough power and are even clean energy. Yes, there is nuclear waste, but the cost and consequences of getting rid of them are just way too big.
@@imnotdwdym because like always in germany the most uninformed perople cry the loudest
@@orangecat504 but the same think that happens in france with the dry period can be happening and with this trubbels with the cooling
I were''t exactly impressed with energy policy in my country, but seeing this I'm think I need to give them more credit I guess.
Well, this didn't age well…
Germans are extremely hesitant to adopt change when they don't need to. And while we love to mock Americans for their inefficient use of energy, we often aren't much better. So while almost every heating system in German homes had options for more efficiency, those were rarely used. But with the prices skyrocketing and the risk is a energy crisis, this quickly changed - and so for this winter the German gas usage has dropped by over 20%. Not by freezing, just by things like "you don't need 22°C in an unused room" or completely closing those famous German windows. And for 2023 almost everybody I know, want's to do some major changes to reduce their energy consumption (for heating, electricity and transportation). This has the interesting effect of some people saving more than the (massive) price hike…
Yes, the prices have skyrocketed. For natural gas new contracts would have been 4 or 5 times higher than before in fall and electricity had doubled in extreme cases. But we now have a price limit (which still is +100% for natural gas and +50% for electricity), but the market prices are starting to level below this.
The most messed up part when watching this video is that twice I was served a "zero emissions" ad by Uniper, a German energy company that is or was involved heavily with the Russian gas business and has also opened new coal power plants.
zero emissions is nothing more then a marketing tacktic. We need oil and gas and no matter what they say.
@@dobby4139 At best, minimize as much as possible, but never gross zero emissions. Net zero, more realistic: amount of carbon captured is equal to amount released. And no, it doesn't have to be as sophisticated as carbon air capture: plantations of trees, or preferably capture carbon right at the biggest sources such as oil and gas production plants. Though the ambitious timeline most governments set is too short.
Lmao
@@dobby4139 No, we need nuclear.
Oh yes the new green dealers going back to the filthiest form of fuel.
You people really are stupid. Get a natural resource and become self sufficient it is the only way you and your country will survive.
Or learn Russian true!
God bless 🇺🇸
Future historians will have a real chuckle over how poetic this all is.
I fully support renewable energy, my state is powered mostly by hydro luckily, but Europe REALLY shot themselves in the foot by throwing out coal without enough reliable sources of gas and by trying to abandon nuclear almost overnight. Everyone jumped on the Fukushima bandwagon to appease voters by shutting down their nuclear plants as quickly as possible. They all ignored the problems with signing up for Russian gas without establishing good alternatives like building a more integrated gas pipeline network or building more ports capable of accepting tankers. Europe basically built Putins empire since most of his governments funding has come from European gas sales.
The US is facing a similar related issue when Biden pissed off the Saudis while shutting down gas pipelines and trying to slow gas production locally. It was extremely short sighted even without the war in Ukraine to consider since you need to secure alternate suppliers BEFORE you start burning bridges, not after, and now he's having to try and convince OPEC to do what he wants while simultaneously opposing OPECs leaders.
I know I'd be laughing at western naivety, hubris, and short sightedness if I weren't a westerner living through it.
Future historians will agree this is was the pivot point where renewables took over. Russia just segmented their own grave. 27 of the most powerful countries in the world are together against Putin. Let's see who laughs last.
It’s not westerners.
Biden is forcing his retarded Green agenda down our throats whether we like it or not.
We'll see. This vid is heavily influenced by the propaganda in the west. 80.000 Russian soldiers might have died, yes... but what it doesn't mention is that Ukraines entire professional army of 600.000 has been wiped out. Ukraine now relies entirely on NATO and US behind the scene in offices and Ukrainian civilians in AK47 to be used as canon fodder. It also is not a disaster for Russia; Russia has never committed more then 20% of it's entire army and they moved out 4 months into the conflict, only leaving a skeleton crew coz Russia didn't see this as a war, merely as a military intervention to secure equal rights for ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine; though no one in the west bothers to listen to Putin, which is why you get vids like this! This all changed when Ukraine went stupid and dumb, attacking what now is considered Russian soil, the Crimean bridge; combined with the West not interested in peace talks, these 2 made Putin realize he had to end the conflict on his terms, which is why the change in strategy. Putin hasn't really started the war yet; the missiles are only a precursor to weaken the enemy by hitting critical infrastructure; when the ground freezes over, Ukraine will face the Russian regular army that have more liberty to kill and shoot anything that moves which looks hostile then the military intervention had. By the state of things, it's no mystery who's gonna win. But western people listen to western MSM that pretty much bullshit, lie and indoctrinate on every topic imaginable; including this one.
@Stxrryyniight Russia shall prevail ! URRAHHH
I my list this video is my NUMBER 1 favorite.I love how to simplify these tricky topics. love you brother 🥰🥰
Get nebula
Propaganda channel
@@cowcolalover420 yeah well if YOU say so. Then it MUST be true...
@@Chobaca
More than 10 videos on Russian invasion but not a single video on USA invasion!
@@cowcolalover420 😂
Update 2023: literally nothing happened to us germans. We currently have the warmest winter in history. So warm we can keep the windows open for hours
Long story short: The EU kept shooting themselves in the foot, and were surprised when they slipped on the pool of blood.
Now all the Russian conscripts are shooting themselves in the foot--literally.
If you don't to the right thing, you'll always be forced to pay for it down the line.
@@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 This is possibly the dumbest reply I've ever seen. What do you have from Russian bloody feet when your people lose jobs and your economy plummets?
The choice isn't between doing the right thing or the wrong thing, the choice was between making a wise choice and not making a wise choice. Germany made a daft choice, quite possibly due to corruption (which they like to call lobbying) or simply due to incompetence and stupidity of its leadership. Why shut down nuclear power plants? Because of Japan which sits on 5 tectonic plates, a situation drastically different from safe conditions of German nuclear power plants. There was no good reason to shut them down, it has to be either corruption or stupidity, pick your poison.
Either way, Germany is unfit to be a leader in the EU.
Not the EU, Germany instead. Do not generalize all of Europe!
The only problem is that we started switching to renewables and then Merkel's and Schröder's parties killed of this switching and the solar industry we had.
@@ThePixel1983 yep, first they boosted the german solar industry to 60k jobs, then take away all subsidies and killed it in its entirety… but instead they paid the coal industry billions…
The picture used at 21:40 is actually from a demonstration to open Nord Stream 2 after the German Government refused to license it when the war started.
This content creator is therefor misleading us by k plying the opposite. What else in this video might be misleading?
@@swingambassador nice try Ivan
@@hairyporter6736 Answer the question and stop trolling
@@hairyporter6736 did you not only loose your glasses?
@@swingambassador it just tells you that he doesn’t read / speak German.
After viewing all US major competitors' #1 weakness series, looking forward to your episodes on the US & Mideast soon.
If only someone would have told them it’s a bad idea to depend almost entirely on Russia for fuel…
Trump did in 2018. But Orange Man Bad caused them not to listen to OMB's advice- especially Mutti Merkel.
Many people did, as pointed out in the video, many more called them retarded for shutting down nuclear as well, but decisions that will affect decade long policies based on one bad incident last week always wins when the general public is involved.
@@freedomfighter22222 Trump told them, everyone laughed... you can try to rewrite history, but we all remember
@@finish_my_projects You're obviously a big Trump fan lol
He just represented American interests and for once listened to what his advisors said. With all due respect, Trump was and is an idiot who doesn't understand the implications of his own words.
It was Germany plan to make France destroy it's nuclear power plants industry via the EU and corrupted politicians so they could sell to France and other Europeans countries Russian gas for a significant margin, it was the best plan for Germany and it's just on hold because of the war but be assured that Germany will continue to act in this direction after the war is finished as they still want to be the European hub for russian gas and make other European countries more dependant on it. Germany is doing it with Poland for years and avoided European fines for doing such harmful schemes towards other members.
I remember trump at the g7 saying germany is making a fatal mistake by relying too much on russia. The other politicians were giggling at what he was saying.. well theyre not laughing anymore... he was right.
Of course he said that, he wants to sell his even dirtier fracking gas
@@Gurumeierhans id take that over no gas 😂👍🏻
trump was right yes but the main reason he is saying that is because he wants to be the super power and doesnt want russia getting richer. The cold war is still going on
@@Gurumeierhans Imagen wanting to strengthen your allies by bringing to.lift their greatest weakness.
@@blacktemplarbrotherlucius1935 Yeah sure. So that they are tied so much to the US, that they will join them in their next war on some oil harboring nation 👍
From the numbers you gave it doesn't sound like they are heavily dependent on Russia for energy, it's substantial yes, but it doesn't sound like it'll cripple their infrastructure. Not to mention Germany's investment in renewable energy.
1 year after. As a german i can say there was never a gas or energy problem before or after the winter
Germany is like the girl that stills talks and hangs out with the guy that stalks/threats/hit her because "he is a good person and he will change" and not only ignores all that people that say they can do better and they are being manipulated but actually defends the guy that mistreat them
nah, cdu, the party that ruled germany was just highly corrupt while every other party told them that what they do is bs.
How about Germany rolled the dice on cheap gas, and it worked until it didn’t.
@@CorePathway How about we not say anything so stupid when the real lunacy was imagining that they could replace cheap fossil fuels with non-existent alternatives.
nb: The video goes on and on about LNG while simultaneously conceding that it is uneconomic.
What is it about people like you that simple logic cannot impact your minds at all?
@@gandydancer9710 exactly. They were keeping up appearances with alternatives whilst sucking down huge quantities of cheap Russian gas. Germany underestimated the threat, Russia overestimated their leverage.
@@gandydancer9710 whats your point?
Being from Groningen I can safely say the small continuous earthquakes has caused millions and millions of damage. For example my parents house had multiple decent cracks in the walls. The cracks were investigated and then paid for the repairs by the government, I think my parents got around 9000 euros for the damage and we live far from the epicentre
The same gas shale actually has its largest suspected portion in Germany.
But this specific reason - earth disturbance - is why they chose not to probe it and pretend it isn't even there. That being said i suspect it could be done a lot less destructively in Germany than in Netherlands.
I think for the good of europe Den Haag has to reopen the Gas fields again and properly compensate the people who are affected by the quackes.
Have them move to somewhere that is not effected by the quackes and keep on making money.
It's either that or we will have a huge problem with that we are having now that gas prices are so high that people are litterly going in debt.
The Netherlands has gas lets use it for our own and the excess sell it to our neighbors
@@Renjii1991 It's particularly risky in the Netherlands which a third of it is under ocean level to begin with. Beyond the damage to the belongings of the individuals, which is easily fixed, it's also a risk of damage that could endanger the country as a whole. Mining was stopped for a reason and it's not a minor one.
There also isn't a lot of space to move people. The country is already twice more densely populated than Germany, and that is densely populated compared to a lot of EU. Only Belgium has comparable density to Netherlands, but falls well short.
And then even when you do decide to move people, that capacity to house people still needs to be built, it's not exactly done in a month or two!
@@SianaGearz The region in Groningen where the quakes appear isn't below sea level and has a very low population density. The profits made with pumping gas, especially with high current prices, would easily pay for the damage to the local houses. The people don't have to be moved, it's not that dangerous for the far majority of residents.
Why did they stop pumping gas? For the same reason all forms of fossil energy is sanctioned, bombed, prohibited, sabotaged, overpriced, reduced, taxed, shamed. The Western world, especially Europe, is being crushed from out and within. Open your eyes!
@@SianaGearz yeah that is another problemen the Netherlands has is that it's plagued by housing shortages, it's not that there is not enough space, the Randstad maybe overpopulated but get out of zuidholland and utrecht, you have allot of space, i dont get why everything has to be centerd in zuidholland anyways. my point is waar een wil is is er een weg, it's enough about what if and do something about it.
I let all my friends know bout this channel a few years ago. Amazing ⏳️ 🌟 🌠 👏 🙀
"Europe outside of the Siberian peninsula isnt very sunny"
Italy , Greece , Bulgaria , Southern France : "Are we a joke to you ?"
Back in 2018 I was a 11 grade student and I was doing my only final major closing school research in Latvia
I decided to go with "Potential benifits and development options of Bio-methane production"
I remember I had a whole paragraph in my research about how methane production using farming waste and crop leftovers and how it could increse energy independancy of Latvia
I got 8 out of 10 I didn't like it The paper was limited to 16 pages I got 24
And I didn't get pass the regional competition
Now 4 years later everyone is praying for their heat bill to be under 700% of the last years bill LMAO
None of this would be happening if we had a nuclear power plant in Lithuania
But the EU forced us to shut it down, becoming even more dependant on Russian gas. We could have shared, but idiotic "Voting" led us to cancel the project for a new nuclear powerplant because "people were scared of nuclear energy" even if it's safer than gas and oil.
@@RazorsharpLT yeah also this idea that nuclear plants are dangerous is totally dumb
There are so many nuclear power plants across the world and in so many years only one led to disaster
And only because it got flodded
And it's almost infinite source of energy
And now so many years later people are like oooh let's bring nuclear plats we discarded back to work
Such a waste
@@RazorsharpLT That's why ecology should be obligatory subject in every school since starting from 3rd grade or so
Cause people don't understand what they are asking the goverments to do
That farm waste isn't exactly waste, since I believe most of it gets tilled back into the soil where it helps maintain the soil in good condition for future harvests (returns nutrients, preserves soil micro-organisms) but I suppose if the alternative is freezing it's worth looking at.
@@Lochness19 depends on crop
"Catastrophic" The favorite word of real life lore
I'm literally reading that and hearing it in RLL's voice.
@@vice.nor.virtue „Chhhhhhhatastrophic” 😂
I'm pretty sure RLL's favourite word is Corolla.
@@aminadabbrulle8252 Maybe a close second or third is "peninsula" like Crimean/Korean Peninsula or "strait" as in Bosphorus/ Gibralter
There's news that Liz Truzz Blinken tweeted "It's done!" a minute after the blast of north stream. GB and US should pay for it!
23:20 a second reason was that pipeline gas is from a environmental perspective always a bit better than LNG
I work in energy policy and I found this very educating. Well done.
the video is complete nonsense! There are open documents about the negotiations, Western countries themselves imposed sanctions against Russian banks through which payments for gas were made, as well as they themselves did not want to commission Nord Stream 2. The gas crisis in Europe was caused by the United States, which literally banned the supply of Russian gas to Europe, this happened long before the war in Ukraine! In this story, everyone loses - Ukraine, Russia, Europe. It is the USA that wins. This is their war, like many conflicts all over the planet before. This video is either pathetic propaganda or incredible stupidity
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@@urlauburlaub2222 Popycock.
@@urlauburlaub2222 interest read mr holiday man, though this video is more of infomatic and yours a somewhat biased history, both point to germanys dependence on russia, which they both profited from and now europe pays the price for that. I also wouldnt try blame ukraine for russias invading them, it seems like russia had every intention of taking their gas fields to stop ukraine eating into almost all of their 50% gdp based on gas exports to europe. Ukraine gas goes to far east and europe pays the price for german over exposure.
That's kind of worrying. The video is not one his better ones and you should know better. German energy policy, maybe?
Reminds me when Trump said in a speech that Germany is making a big mistake for being too reliant on Russia. The audience just laughed him off. Guess nobody laughing now. Germany pretty much reap what they sow.
Yeah? So how are the petrol/gas prices in the US again? Just saying. How are the natural gas prices in the UK? How high is inflation again? Literally all the countries warning (aka wanting to sell their own gas that couldn't compete on price with the russians) germany are facing the same consequences as germany right now. The only difference is that germany profited over decades from cheap russian gas. That's it. We were better off while it lastet and are now in the same situation as everybody else since the deal got broken. So I'm still laughing about Trump thinking he could rip us off and sell us his expensive LNG BS with his scare tactic. LMAO
Russia didn’t face economic hardship from ending sales to Germany, they found plenty of other eager customers primarily in Asia.
I mean yes and no. There revenues have declined some what but they are exporting less gas. At the moment Russia is benefiting massively from higher global energy prices but prices are expected to come down in the course of this year.
I am german
can confirm
can't buy gas or food
can't afford electricity
Great video. Super deep! I’m working on one about this topic too.
Nice, I’ll be really looking forward to seeing your take on it! Glad you enjoyed it.
You will NOT drink nuclear fuel.
excited to see it!
@@skeletor8523 I want to drink nuclear fuel :(
can't wait for another re-write of history video!!
Amazing video. Videos of channel helps linking so many little historical anecdotes together and interesting✨
Wait if Russia can and did cut off supply through the pipeline (they mostly invested in build) why would they blow it up? They stand to lose more in initial investment and in eventual repairs.
Taking in mind all the dependency on russian Gas as showed here, Germany is not credited enough for getting rid of this dependency while avoiding a profound recession just within one year - from late 2022 to now. There was no gas shortage in the last winter, following this video, there was no breakdown, there was just an enourmous achievement by politics managing this and signing contracts for alternatives as well as by the economy saving energy in total. And the special achievement has been: Moscows plan failed to seriously divide Germans over this and make them bend in, stopping to support Ukraine. That did not happen, on the contrary, support for Ukraine increased. This leaves Russia isolated more than ever.
I cannot tell you how glad I am to watch this channel over and over again because the way you make your videos is just so informative, especially as a german there seems to be no channel quite like this on youtube in german language that can explain things as good as you!
Ya german channels are a bit boring
It's somewhat bias, but it does give details on specific things
The illustrations are laid out in a fantastic manner...alot of work put in to this...easy for an ole geiser like myself to understand.
Some things aren't addressed, that could have been said.
Like poor families facing the choice of heat or food due to an up to 400% increase in cost of gas and many homes in Germany heating with that gas. AC aswell as water.
I also enjoy Kurzgesagt (In a Nutshell), which actually is part of the public German broadcasting services.
When I watch their videos, most of the time, I finally have a feeling of getting my tax money's worth. Verdammter Rundfunkbeitrag, aber für die lohnt es sich!
@@iamaloafofbread8926 thats the point, it has a pretty Strong US-bias.
As someone living on top of the Groninger gas field I want to clarify/add some things.
Yes, there are earthquakes (60-80 a year) that cause *mostly* minor damage. I think most houses here have at least some cosmetic cracks in the mortar and plaster. Sometimes it's worse and it's affecting the structural integrity of the buildings. It isn't uncommon to see houses with (support) props for months or even years while the owners are having to deal with the relevant agencies to get the proper repairs done. That's the reason people are completely done with it. Since 2012 roughly 900 houses have been demolished as they were no longer safe to live in and about 27k still have to be reinforced to not end up being demolished for the same reasons.
Anyway, the problem is the way the government and the company doing the drilling handled the situation. Sometimes people were told the damage wasn't caused by the drilling or it took years to get compensated. Meanwhile the government wanted more gas money and extracted more and more gas when reports told them it could lead to more and heavier earth quakes. And those earth quakes don't stop when they stop extracting gas: experts believe they could last for a decade or longer afterwards. Eventually the government could no longer ignore the issues and decided to end the extraction of gas in 2024. That also meant the government decided to limit the amount of buildings that will be reinforced. There were reports saying which buildings had to be reinforced to maintain a certain level of gas extraction, but the government ignored that. If they quit in 2024 the earthquakes and future damage should be limited so they kept the reinforcements to an absolute minimum. When the war in Ukraine started, many people here thought and supported(!) extracting more gas again if the government would guarantee proper compensation of the damages without any of the usual bureaucratic BS. However the government kept saying they would keep the levels at the absolute minimum and stop completely in 2024. That decision meant that they are still not reinforcing more buildings. So while they can slowly increase the amount of gas again, we can't go back to the old levels before proper action is taken to ensure houses are safe. Had they just preemptively done that in March then we would be better prepared in case we get a cold winter. But that's just the Dutch government ignoring problems until it's too late as usual.
Thanks for that background.
Thanks for the background and sorry to hear about the earthquakes plus bureaucracy. The people that supported the reinforcement + extraction as a response to the War deserve my utmost admiration. 🇲🇽❤️🇳🇱.
In Groningen area , in fact the entire territory of the Netherlands, the soil is in a hydrodynamic balance and the competent authorities strive to maintain and improve this balance . Those surface earthquakes were somehow caused by the extraction of gas, without doing environmental impact studies, they were those crazy years with the gas rush from 1965-1980, they were the golden years of the northern region of the Netherlands... BUT , the soil demanded its tribute (it began to sink slowly, causing at the same time surface earthquakes ) ... what will happen in the future ( if they use of the hydraulic fracturing method for the exploitation of shale gas ... a method quite dangerous for soil stability)
Government is all the same everywhere. Slow and bureucratic
In the end you must never rely on the government to take care of you. We have to handle things ourselves.
I adore your videos. The amount of people i have told about you. Thank you so much, as a lecturer, information and detail is crucial to prepare oneself. You are a 🌟 dear ❤️
Contrary to what you said, Germany does has some gas reserves themselves, but they aren't exploiting them due to environmental concerns I believe
What else is new with the environmental wackos??? They would find fault with energy utopia. Disillusioned German leadership discontinued nuclear power plants. Under pressure from United nations/along with other disillusioned co2 propagandist. The Marxist Biden administration wants total wind & solar in the future. That's 20 % of the U.S energy needs. California's brown out/black outs are caused by lack of electricity resources.
The good thing is that Germany has been bolstering its gas storage since the war started. They had less than 20% of reserves when the war started, now they have almost 90% of their available storage reserve is full. Which should help with the winter. They have also delayed switching off to nuclear power plants that were supposed to be decommissioned this year to make sure they have what they need. Plus, they are doing a massive drive within the country to insolate homes and make them more energy efficient
How much gas exactly is 90% of Germany's reserves?
germany had 3 power plants since the end of 2021, and right now they have only 1, that's the one they delayed the shut down, singular, everything else is off right now.
I think if the whole world could have solar panels and use that energy for everything but I think it's important to turn the lights off at night I do because I see it as light pollution you don't see the stars as well but the problem with making these solar panels we have to take it out of the ground and it's massive it may not be good for the planet it's a pretty hard decision actually it comes down to saving the planet one way and kind of messing it up with another way what's the right balance God bless
If Joe Biden didn't declare war on American oil, gas prices would be close to normal and we would pick up the slack by supplying Germany.
@@MissJilly0 23 Billion cubic meters, which is enough to cover the german demand for at least one year with current consumption rates. For context: that's the fourth biggest storage in the world
As a Norwegian, I am glad we help support the German people, we are affected by the energy crises a lot too, and we are in this together. Stay strong :-)
You are in what together? In supporting America making wars all around the globe fory their profit? Is that what you support? Or sacrificing innocent Ukrainian people through Zelenski puppet person in the hand of US?
Keep repeating that, the far right and left idiots in Norway needs to keep hearing it.
God this short term problem is going to cause a lot of populisms on both flanks and weakening the central parties who have driven the car so steadily for the past half century.
Stay STRONG!
Yeah they should be helped, but they need to step up and apologize for reckless selfish behavior that has weakened Europe & NATO, subsequently they need to mobilize support for alternative energy infrastructure & aid to Ukraine! What good are these subsidized industries if they can't rally to bolster Europe/NATO.
@@assertivekarma1909 na we dont need to apologize, it was the older population that kept the cdu as the main ruling party for like ever even tho they are fucking corrupt. if you want someone to apologize visit the retirement homes and ask them for it.
Winter nearly over and we (germans) didn't struggle at all, lol.
I remember German officials calling America rude expletives when America said Russia was about to invade Ukraine...
Yeah my energy bill right now is going from €90-100 per month with minimal gas usage (220m³ a year), to €350-400 a month...In the Netherlands...
Holland voted for this current coalition despite it’s previous actions. Our nation literally deserves everything that’s happening to it rightnow. Don’t expect the situation to get better, because it’ll get a lot lot worse first.
@@red_grapes2886 the country is literally sinking because of the gas drilling. It’s not exactly an easy decision with a clear right or wrong answer.
It was Germany plan to make France destroy it's nuclear power plants industry via the EU and corrupted politicians so they could sell to France and other Europeans countries Russian gas for a significant margin, it was the best plan for Germany and it's just on hold because of the war but be assured that Germany will continue to act in this direction after the war is finished as they still want to be the European hub for russian gas and make other European countries more dependant on it. Germany is doing it with Poland for years and avoided European fines for doing such harmful schemes towards other members.
how many people live with you? I've been using 60-70 m^3 a year. Heating/warm water being gas, cooking being electric.
Poor people make for good Communists.
Just want to take a moment to thank you for all the quality and informative content. Please keep it going. Take care.
Oh how the turns have tabled
Can we get a post winter update? How did Germany do with the dire decisions they faced?
Can't you tell? Germany doesn't exist anymore. All Germans died because of a lack of gas and nuclear power. Switzerland has taken over and will probably invade the Netherlands within the next 48 hours. All because of these catastrophic decisions by German politicians.
Nordstream 1 and 2 were down to sheer greed and not much else. But the closure of the nuclear power stations was utter insanity.
Well, not entirely. During the early 2000s and late 90s Nordstream was also seen as a project of peace and fair trade between nations that were former enemies. The goal of Germany was peace through tight economic cooperation. You could say it was naïve, but atleast the motivation was more then only creed.
Atleast politically that was a reason too. For the big companies it was mainly a tool to get cheap gas.
Yeah. France was so smart when they went all in on nuclear because it's the only carbon neutral RELIABLE energy form. How is france doing right now btw.? Wait they have to BUY electricity from germany made out of expensive and scarce gas because most f their nuclear power pants are down because they are unreliable and will remain down throughout the winter during the biggest energy crisis europe has ever faced. Oh how ironic......
@@randomdude2026 that would only work if it was MAD to tear it apart. As far as I can tell, Russia did not have the same level knife to its neck.
And Schröder basically sucking off Putin.
If thats so, then why did the french EDF (nuclear power company) struggle so massively to attract investors
I just can't get my head around how you can let this happen, this wasn't one or two mistakes this was a consistent pattern of failures that led us to where we are today, people who run the country are supposed to protect from things like this, not make it worse time and time again. Theres has to be corruption at play here with businesses getting in the ear of politicians telling them how much they like cheap gas and how little they care about the consequences.
Of course there is. Schroeder signed the contracts a mere 10 days before going out of office.
This man is the most greedy, corrupt and asocial individual ever to hold the office as Chancellor.
It's intentional
Look at what happened with Schröder. The corruption has been standing out in the open for a while now
what about citizens blindly voting for Green Utopia, banning nuclear, closing down carbon and caring ABSOLUTELY 0 that all energy for the "transition" was coming from a unique source run by a tyrant?
I feel 0 pity for germans tbh. They voted for this, and still they double down on the very same ideas that brought them here. Problem is they drag the rest of us
Nein. Die Politik der letzten Jahre war ein Produkt unserer heutigen Gesellschaft.
Calling petrol "gas" gets confusing here
In Netherlands, gas extraction is causing subsidence, not "substance."
"In our own german interest, we have to make sure that this is not the case. And I'm very confident what that is concerned."
- Ursula von der Leyen, famous last words
That's Germans for you. They always think they're right. Can never be wrong. But they often are.
So sad when your own interest conflicts with your own other interest. At the end one interest has to be sacrificed and either way the ppl suffer.
Climaphobics need to come out and admit that anthropogenic climate change is a total fraud.
Actually the former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder & other politicians help either by being involved with Gasprom & other Russian backed companies so there is much blame spread between many politicians.
This shows that we should always question politicians & their motives & the government they form.
History teaches us this but those who ignore & don’t learn from it is doomed to repeat it as they humans as we are that we can bought or swayed by others.
@@shapeofillusion If ukr had just given russia 2 territories straight away the war would have ended ended within minutes and russia would loose all future casus belli. Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of people that would still be alive and the half of ukranie thats now a smoking ruin. Oh and america wouldn't have blown up nord stream.
You understated the earthquakes' effect in Groningen. Their magnitude might be relatively small, usually no larger than 3, but their epicenter is often very close to the surface. This means that they cause disproportional damage. And there is still potential for a much more severe quake in the future, up to a magnitude of 6 or 7. This means that every house in the affected area has to be inspected entirely, multiple times over the course of years, to spot cracks in the walls and instability. Add to that that many houses were built before ww2 and before the gas field was discovered, and it isn't a surprise that people have to leave their homes for months while their house is strengthened, or bulldozed. And all this has been going on for decades. The fact that only now things are starting to be done is unbelievable
The Nord Stream was sabotaged, those bursts were so small that they only point to explosions.
@@Alfredo12 I think you reacted to the wrong comment
That’s called subduction of land above the land that hat lost structural mass that the gas was removed. This is same in Oklahoma where is there was very few earthquakes but since they did fracking they had very large increase in earthquakes there.
@@frankchan4272 Same in UK. Fracking is/was banned here because it caused earthquakes. Our houses aren't built for that, because we don't experience them (usually). As soon as they started, the quakes were reported, so they had to stop completely. The present government is keen to restart fracking.
Low-depth earthquakes have done tremendous damage in my native region. The damage done here, and the governments inaction cannot be understated. On that remark however, I still think that it would be best to empty the fields and pay the reparations. Especially now that our winter looks to be a rough one…
german here. yeah, we fucked this up, but our country has learned from it's mistakes before and we will get through this crisis. i still believe becoming emission-free is possible and even necessary now. we will find a way with the help of our friends in europe and the world. we just need to keep our democracy healthy and our minds focussed.
Yes, Germany can absolutely help the entire world.
I take it you aren’t old enough to pay taxes already, are you?
@@Celisar1 what? 😅 please read my text again. plus i'm 40 and pay taxes.
Germany needs some Atomic energy Powerplants
Say thank you to your Anglo-Saxon friends. You will do as the old man from behind the ocean says. Watch my logic, Hans. 1) The Germans think that they are not a US colony and can make independent decisions ---> they blow up a gas pipeline that provides a cheap source of energy ---> a cuckold on German TV will tell housewives that these are all evil Russians and give advice on how to wash less often.
2) The Germans are very offended by their "friends" and want to get away from the English boot ----> German corporations immediately receive benefits and access to the American market ----> cuckold on TV tells housewives about the fucking benefits of friendship with Uncle Sam.
The reward and punishment system, all in the best traditions of German Shepherd training.
...and any trained dog must serve its master. You better think about why your chancellor militarizes the army and makes ambiguous statements about the country with which you have a difficult past. The Germans should just know that they will not have 3 attempts. There will be no one to sign the capitulation with, Germany will cease to exist physically and ethno-politically
They could also switch to central heating by "energy recycling" garbage in combined power/heat-plants with smoke scrubbers like Sweden among others are doing and start a government supported or run production of heatpumps.... That would take care of the problem without burning immense amounts of coal.
Plus restart thier nuclear power plants. Coal plants produce more radioactive material (fly ash) then the nuclear power / energy unit.
OH YEAh another thing. Photovoltaics produce about 3% more power while at thier optimum temperature, about 25%, then at temperatures they reach closer to the equator.
11:25 Denmark has stakes in the gas fields in the North Sea as well. We own the Tyra field, which is currently not in operation due to reconstruction and maintenance (re-opens in 2023-2024) and is administrated by Maersk.
good timing :D
(Like the german nuclear fade-out)
You still pale in comparison to Russian supply ability.
Isn't that company from China God bless
Maersk is a danish company..
@@kirkslayden834 narh it's the largest danish company by some measures and the largest shipping company on the planet.
@abaddon
i do believe Maersk soll the gas field to the french company TotalEnergies a while back.
Denmark also own an ever larger gas field then Tyra, called Xana mostly owner by the danish government. But it been left untouched so far, because of environmental concerns.