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Countries with secure energy reserves are sitting on the moral high horse right now.

Similar to the India criticism above, in Europe it is always Germany that is criticized for importing natural gas from Russia. This week it turned out that Poland and Bulgaria (which Russia has just cut off) relied to the order of 45% and 90% on Russian gas. Poland is now re-importing Russian gas from Germany!

Other European countries also rely on Russian gas.

I suppose we should instead buy from virtuous countries like Saudi Arabia (Yemen war, human rights violations).


Still it's easier to lay blame on the richest country in Europe for picking the cheaper and dirtier option while they could do better, than Poland for trying to pull itself out of poverty. Not to mention a large chunk of Germany's gas is used by the chemical industry, which is kind of like saying "we're gonna keep buying Russian gas to not hurt our profit margins".

What we should really be doing is following France's shining example of complete nuclear power independence, but the time for that was 15 years ago and we're basically all fucked right now.


I agree with pushing nuclear energy, but France is still buying Russian gas!

Other European countries benefit from the NordStream pipelines as well, which were originally built to circumvent Ukraine after Ukraine stole gas in transit (another example that the history is more complex than presented right now).

Germany is rich on paper for the elites. The population is poor, suffers from wage dumping through influx of Eastern Europeans and already suffers from sky high energy costs for private households.


>in Europe it is always Germany that is criticized for importing natural gas from Russia

Germany is particularly criticized because they shut down their nuclear plants about 10 years ago, which makes them seen as huge hypocrites when talking about reducing fossil fuel use.


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