Shivering for Peace
Shivering for Peace
At the brink of a gas disaster, the Green party once again promotes nuclear energy — “green light for green glow” — as if ’68 had never happened.
Because gas from the eternal archenemy can no longer be an option, the green representatives defiantly face their founding ideals and all the “sun instead of Reagan”-
original Greens, but what is the alternative?
The decision has been made, no more gas from the Russians – war to their war, destroy what is destroying Ukraine – or something like that.
“What our sanctions achieve – and that’s central – is to show Putin: Medium and long term, this war will ruin your country.” Putin’s perfidious game is set for the long run; that’s why our sanctions must be too,” said Baerbock at a special session on the “Russia war.” Are you ready for total ruination?
Meanwhile, the ruble has recovered like it hasn’t in nearly a decade, revenues from Russian energy exports are booming, and according to J.P. Morgan, the ruble will only drop by 3.5 percent this year — just 2 percent more than in 2020 — but in the long run, we will win – and freeze.
Public consensus with the government’s course is already eroding, as inflation is not borne by elite democrats but by the voters.
This benefits the far-right forces in our country, who have always stuck to the pro-Putin course and, at least subconsciously, understood Russia’s economic power over the West – poverty leads to frustration, and frustration leads to the AfD, putting them in an excellent position amid this debacle.
However, for the camouflage-bourgeois Greens, the Ukraine conflict is a stroke of luck: “It gives them the opportunity to denounce proletarians, who believe the culprits of the ecological catastrophe — primarily banks and industry — should also pay for the Green New Deal, as unsolidary.”
Anyone who thinks in terms of class and doesn’t see themselves as responsible for systemic catastrophes is practically a Putin profiteer and traitor to the people.
The financing of this war falls back on the citizens; neoliberals see special blame among those on basic benefits due to their supposed irresponsibility in energy use. The FDP wants to counteract this with a mocking “shivering bonus” – those who freeze thoroughly this winter can secure a financial bonus: “freeze in winter (…) so they (…) don’t have to go hungry the following summer.”
The Federal Republic clearly positions itself against war with sanctions — if you will, these sanctions are pacifist practice; if the average German now learned some discipline in energy consumption, inflation wouldn’t be so noticeable – then he’ll just shower once a week – Slava Ukraini!
“The oil we no longer buy is happily bought by the Indians, for example, who then process it and sell the diesel, among other things, to the European Union. That’s, of course, much more expensive than if we bought Russian oil directly. And that also shows the absurdity of these measures,” says Sahra Wagenknecht.
The sanctions against Russia have no long-term impact in overcoming or weakening Russian aggression in Ukraine.
Russia grants countries not participating in the sanctions war a massive discount of around 30% per barrel of oil, and it shows:
India, in particular, has increased its import volumes of Russian oil by several percent, but even Spain recently imported 25% of its gas from Russia, up from just under 10% previously.
Meanwhile, the volume of fuel sold in India is skyrocketing, especially exports to Germany and co.:
In April 2021, the EU bought fuels worth about 221 million USD from India, the same time this year, the amount was over a billion.
Also, the quick export of large amounts of previously imported crude oil makes it more than likely that the EU is buying recently purchased Russian oil at higher prices from India – geopolitical dropshipping.
Such absurdity, while European citizens are sold freezing and hunger as acts of solidarity, is almost Kafkaesque – pure ideology.
The geographical location of a country defines the political value of lost lives; in Yemen, since the war began in 2015, nearly 400,000 people have died, and the UN speaks of the “worst humanitarian crisis in the world” – but the Yemen conflict doesn’t involve territorial losses of semi-western big industry, and societal empathy for Ukrainians is simply greater than for Yemenis – over there, there’s always war anyway, so a few billion don’t really make a difference:
A dictator is not a dictator, and a dead person is not a dead person – we now (presumably) buy our oil for a good cause and shiver for peace, Habeck’s bow to Qatar.