The Europeans push for conflict with Russia, while putting themselves at Russia's mercy for fuel.
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THat is not the act of a grown up.
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Why not?
It's completely idiotic what US-Americans say - and also seem to think - in this context. As well democrats and republicans are the same idiots. Why a parallel pipeline between Germany and Russia, which goes additionally parallel to the pipelines through Poland and through the Ukraine, causes such a heavy hate reaction on Germany of the politicians of the USA is a mystery to me.
Best will be your kindergarten president will take his toy soldiers with him out of Germany and will bring them to his fantasia land, where all his dreams will come true. No one is able to defend what he hates. Oh by the way: We never had any big problems with your soldiers. When they have to go then I hope we'll make a last big Volksfest together and we will have a lot of fun and some melancholy together. It was a good time, once, where it had helped a lot, when wishes still became true.
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Because it is not rational to make yourself dependent on a regime that you are seeking conflict with.
That is why. Like I said above. Already.
Asking a question I just gave the answer to, is not the act of a rational person.
You 'asked' "You are childish! Why?" ... as well this 'question*' and your answer here shows your own childish attitude.
We were by the way never depending to Russia also when the Soviets sold heating material to us during the cold war. We have always a strategic reserve for some month and we have also coal for more than 400 years. We don't like to use coal on reason of the climate change. The natural gas from Russia is much better in this context. This gas is the same - whether it comes over the Ukraine or Poland - but we have also to take care about defects in other pipelines as well as we have to take care about a war in the Ukraine ... and Poland is unfortunatelly also on the way to lose the last democratic structures. I hope this will not happen.
In general is natural gas a bridge technology - but no one knows how long. But even if Russia would stop the deliveries on reason of a kind of nonsense war in the Ukraine - what they would not do, because they are reliable business partners - we could help the Ukraine with heating material from our strategic reserve. I think your president has not any plan about anything what has to do with Russia and Germany. He's only a big idiot. Perhaps he is even a criminal big idiot. The Russians and the Urkrainians are indeed nearly the same people. They should help each other and not fight against each other. Weapons help no one anything in the current conflict between Russia and the Ukraine. The solution fro thsi 'conflict' is perhaps still to easy to go this little step.
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Like switching to coal would be easy or cheap.
If Russia is an enemy worth seeking conflict with, a serious adult would not make themselves dependent on them for heat in the middle of winter.
If Russia is instead a "reliable business partners" then we should not be seeking conflict with them.
Everything you said, that did not address that, was worthless noise.