Hey, Germany. Have you maybe thought about NOT being an asshole? Or are you counting on the discomfortt of winter to galvanize Germans for war against the Slavs?
Hey, don’t you disrespect their determination. Europe is prepared to fight for USA’s interests to the last European.
Trying to wrap my mind around how the country that produced Beethoven, Marx, Engels, Brecht, the DDR, etc. also produced Olaf Scholz.
Well they also produced nazis, so i could say Germany is a country of contrasts.
Interesting thing to consider: Prussia. Since medieval, Germany was known in Europe as a country of high culture. In XVIII and XIX century, they even got famous for philosophy. And prussian takeover really changed things. Unsurprisingly, both main parts of Prussia - Prussia and Brandenburg, were settler states build on genocide and slavery of Slavs and Balts. Even after centuries, it was still more ot less visible.
Even more interesting. People of DDR were previously the citizens of mostly Prussia. So there is hope for literally anyone.
I believe even Nietzsche – who of course wasn’t a communist or a leftist in any sense – lamented the influence of Prussia over the rest of Germany, because it was dragging down German culture. So everybody noticed in one way or another.
One thing I find interesting is that, if the German social democrats hadn’t betrayed the revolution that occurred at the end of World War I, Germany could have been the first fully-industrialized nation with a socialist government. European history in the twentieth century could have been very different.
Yeah i remember reading about and thinking “this was a history turning point”. Unified socialist Germany would be best thing to ever happen to Europe.
Modern Europe is a American construct. The marshall plan was an antisocialist trojan horse.
Tragic. Hot water is the easiest technological problem to solve. They have so much energy problems in Germany and it’s 100% political. Nuclear, Russia, USA, what a mess. Curious to hear what Germans actually think about all of it.
Not a German citizen but I live in Germany. Things are pretty fucked, and without a revolution they can only get worse. The energy situation is an own goal like you indicated, and agricultural policy is going the same direction. Foreign, financial, transportation, and health policies are all trainwrecks in motion. The Social Democrats are ostensibly the most powerful coalition partner in government but it’s the warhawk US influenced Greens and libertarian Free Democrats who are really in charge. Overall a majority of people support these very poor decisions, because of the way the media, especially the public broadcasters, report it.
People were more or less ok with relatively high energy and food prices up to the last few months, as well as other high living costs, as many Germans are high earning labour aristocracy or petite bourgeois. Most people just ignore the very low wage earners because classes don’t exist in Germany apparently, and there’s government assistance for the poor on paper, and all the other excuses comfortable white people have to not care about the plight of the most exploited.
Now with inflation rapidly accelerating (official figure is about 9%, so the real figure must be in the mid teens at least), gas being rationed in industrial applications and soon residential, unemployment sure to rise, wages flat… It takes a lot of shit for Germans to finally step up and try to change things, and that moment may come soon. Unfortunately those best placed to take advantage are reactionaries.
Dutch citizen. Similar situation, although we have natural gas as long as 100,000 people are willing to suffer from constant earthquakes.
I don’t think a socialist revolution is coming here.
Quite the opposite.
The angry are drifting towards fanning a Western civil war on the side of the US Republicans.
I was just reading a few days ago about how germany had such bad energy planning, rejected nuclear for example, and are still heavily reliant on coal, and still have to buy a lot of power from other countries.
Is it bad planning or intentional design?
German here, last week I actually went to a weekend fair in my hometown to have a few political (among other) discussions and no one said a single good word about either the German government, NATO, the USA, or Ukraine for that matter. This was bipartisan, I talked to other leftists, greens, social democrats, and conservatives, and all of them were of the opinion that Germany has maneuvered itself into a debacle. They were either in support of continuing nuclear energy or quick peace with Russia, and obviously no one endorsed mandatory cold showers. Moreover, many of them were already accepting the fact that this thing happened because of continuous provocation by the West. At least in this small town in the middle of the woods, Habeck and his gang won’t catch tailwinds any time soon
What did they think was the way out of this?
Like I said, the solutions mentioned were quick peace with Russia or continuing nuclear. However, some had already resigned themselves to live through the coming shitshow in its entirety
Thanks
And you know for a fact that the assholes actually responsible for this are living it up in luxury. As always, the proletariat and the impoverished suffer from decisions that they had no say in.
Russia energy crisis
Sleazebag wording. They’re working really hard (and apparently succeeding) in making Russia seem like the culprit, as if we just randomly decided to cut off wholesome saintly euros for no reason at all, save perhaps because we’re evil orcs. Anything to deflect the blame from their own government.
