Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Die Welt:
“Before the people there freeze, we would have to throttle our industry or even shut it down”
Gas transit contracts between Russia and Ukraine will expire next year — it remains uncertain whether countries like Austria or Hungary will continue to be supplied from Russia. Economics Minister Robert Habeck is now making it clear that Germany would cut back its industry if necessary in order to help its neighbors.
According to Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens), Germany could be forced to reduce or even shut down industrial capacities if the gas transit agreement between Russia and Ukraine is not extended. “In my opinion, we’re not out of the woods yet,” Habeck said on Monday at the East German Economic Forum in Bad Saarow.
The currently good situation should not distract from what is actually threatening. “I just want to point out that the transit agreements that Russia has signed with Ukraine will expire in 2024,” the minister said.
“And the war is raging. There is no certain scenario as to how things will continue,” he said. “If the Russian gas doesn’t keep coming to Eastern Europe to the same extent that is still flowing through Ukraine now, what was agreed in Europe would apply: before the people there freeze, we would have to throttle our industry or even shut it down.”
Despite February’s Russian invasion, Ukraine still makes money from the transit fees it charges for sending Russian gas to countries like Austria, Slovakia, Italy and Hungary.
Even if some deliveries continue beyond 2024, this is unlikely to happen on comparable terms. There is a lack of political support for this, according to a report by the Center on Global Energy Policy last week.
“Direct negotiations between Ukraine and Russia on the extension of the transit agreement seem highly unlikely in the current environment,” say the report’s authors, Anne-Sophie Corbeau and Tatiana Mitrova.
Afterword from the translator:
Yep, I’m also pretty sure that he’s not through yet destroying Germany for his globalist masters. If such statements will not produce the required consequences, at the latest at the next election, the people of Germany deserve everything they voted for. Not that in today’s political climate elections or the will of the people count — as if they ever have — since those that believe themselves the “country’s best” will turn everything to their and their puppet-masters’ advantage. Only when all these old political parties have been reduced to ashes and thrown onto the dungheap of history will the people see some positive change, and the cycle for creeping abuse of power will start all over again. We really have to find a fool— and a cheat-proof way to curb those that have been selected to be our public servants from becoming public tyrants or the tool of globalist tyrants.
why did russia cut all of the pipeline supplies connecting to europe, except while letting only the ukraine have something to gain from the pipes ? the only pipe that would make any sense to cut from a russian point of viee was the pipe feeding ukraine… otherwise this prigozhin kadyrov drama or soap opera (depending on the weather) does not make any sense at all.
“We really have to find a fool— and a cheat-proof way to curb those that have been selected to be our public servants from becoming public tyrants or the tool of globalist tyrants.”
The current batch of public tyrants needs to be hung for treason. Some of them should be turned over to the tender mercies of their orcs which they imported until the sexual emergencies of every last orc has been satisfied.
As to preventing public servants from becoming public tyrants again, I will reiterate my previous opining on the topic. No more voting privileges for females with the possible exception of married mothers. No more voting privileges for males unless they are a veteran. And no elected officials who hadn’t first served in the military.
If the goal is to create a functioning traditional society that values stability and leaving a better country for their children to inherit, then those who choose whom will govern it should be those who have demonstrated they are willing to either protect it with their life or give life within a traditional marriage to those to whom it will pass to. There must be skin in the game, and the selection of public servants needs to reflect this to improve the chances of putting people in power who are genuinely invested in the future of their country.
“There is no certain scenario”
— Liar. There is certain scenario (of takeover) called Agenda 2030 (within Agenda 21). Part of which is the deindustrialization process he is literally gaslighting about.
Germany: “If I don’t stop strangling myself soon, I’m going to have to slit my own throat.”
“The Deindustrialization of Germany?”
Should surprise no one….other than commie-toddlers.
“Prediction: I think Germany’s soon gonna be forced to choose who gets the limited cache of energy this winter—the factories (e.g., BMW, Mercedes, Audi, et al) or the people. Quietly, some German steel factories are being shut down, so I reckon the answer’s clear.
Today’s Rhetorical Question: What happens when large factories shut down and the government mandates severe limitations on energy distribution? (hint: the masses get restless when their “green” ‘toddler sophisticates legislate them into cold, dark, hungry and unemployed)” —Me, fb post (11 Sept 2022)
Look at South Africa today to see what happens when the orcs take over from civilized peoples.
“Look at South Africa today to see what happens when the orcs take over from civilized peoples.”
Why? A quick glance at Mogadishu-San Francisco, Mogadishu-Seattle, Mogadishu-Chicago, Mogadishu-St. Louis, Mogadishu-Baltimore or Mogadishu-DC’s all you need.
You forgot Mogadishu-Murderapolis.