Germany — will it be done in by its thundering herd of government imbeciles?

© 2022 Peter Free

 

25 June 2022

 

 

First, there was Germany's imbecilic foreign minister . . .

 

. . . Annalena Baerbock, who evidently forgot that the German economy is utterly dependent upon Russian-sourced energy.

 

In April — as a result of the Russo-Ukrianian War, which the United States and NATO provoked — she promised that:

 

 

Germany is also completely phasing out Russian energy imports," said Baerbock.

 

"We will halve oil by the summer and will be at 0 by the end of the year, and then gas will follow, in a joint European roadmap, because our joint exit, the complete exit of the European Union, is our common strength."

 

© 2022 Riham Alkousaa and Miranda Murray, Germany will end oil imports from Russia by year end, says minister, Reuters (20 April 2022)

 

 

And now — in June

 

Germany's equally mind-addled economy minister, Robert Habeck, blamed the Russians for what the Germans had done to themselves:

 

 

Germany triggered the "alarm stage" of its emergency gas plan on Thursday in response to falling Russian supplies . . . .

 

"We must not fool ourselves: The cut in gas supplies is an economic attack on us by (Russian President Vladimir) Putin," Economy Minister Robert Habeck said in a statement.

 

© 2022 Holger Hansen and Vera Eckert, Germany triggers gas alarm stage, accuses Russia of 'economic attack', Reuters (23 June 2022)

 

 

Minister Habeck, it appears, conveniently overlooked that it was Germany and the West, who had attacked Russia with (now boomeranging) economic sanctions, which were intended to force the Federation out of economic existence.

 

 

The moral? — You can lie all you want . . .

 

. . . but Reality will eventually have its say.

 

In truth, Germany looks as if it is run by people even more mush-brained, than our own American crew of rabidly braindead neocon fools.

 

That takes some doing. Perhaps, a prize is in order.