Nutcase Germany continues to drown itself in delusions regarding Russia

23 April 2022

German leaders' intellects have plummeted . . .

. . . (metaphorically) into a flooded basement's plugged toilet.

Below is Germany's foreign minister . . .

. . . drawing a pie in the sky with her fervid imagination, regarding the Russo-Ukrainian War:

Germany will stop importing oil from Russia by the end of the year, said German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock after a meeting with her Baltic counterparts on Wednesday.

"I therefore say here clearly and unequivocally yes, 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."

Reality check

Semantically speaking, "energy imports" would include Russian gas.

If so, consider the following from Reuters — my comments enclosed in brackets:

ICIS [Independent Commodity Intelligence Services] analysis data for German supply showed that in December 2021 Russian pipeline gas accounted for 32%, Norwegian gas 20% and Dutch 12%, with storage 22% and the rest from other smaller sources including domestic production.

The chief executive of German utility Uniper (UN01.DE) last month pegged Russia's share of Germany's gas supply at half, although this can fluctuate from month to month.

Germany has 24 bcm of underground caverns of gas storage. A fifth of that is represented by Rehden, a unit owned by storage company Astora which is in turn owned by Russian company Gazprom . As such, total storage capacity could meet a quarter of Germany's annual gas usage.

["Meet a quarter" until, of course, it comes time to refill the storage.]

BAFA [foreign trade statistics office] showed that 34% of Germany's crude oil came from Russia in 2021 and coal group VDKi said 53% of hard coal received by German power generators and steelmakers came from Russia last year.

Those facts — translated

With leaders like Foreign Minister Baerbock, Germany is destined to be shivering in dark and turning nature-dried sticks into eating utensils.

The US-NATO goal of keeping Germany down will have been fulfilled:

The accomplished and insightful British general Hasting Ismay is remembered today largely because of his famous assessment of NATO, offered when he was the alliance’s first secretary general.

The purpose of the new treaty organization founded in 1952, Ismay asserted, was “to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.”

Consider Larry Johnson's similar perspective

He wrote that:

The German role in this clown show is particularly hilarious. They are going to stop importing Russian oil by years end.

But guess what? They are still importing Russia oil and gas and paying rubles.

If Germany goes for an alternative source eventually . . . it means they will be paying a higher price. Higher price for fuel in Germany will reverberate throughout the German economy and will tick up prices in the rest of Europe.

Europe is acting more like a meth addict who is vowing to quit the drug in 8 months but still wants his fix today.

There is no economy in the history of the world that grows and prospers while having to pay higher prices for oil.

I seem to recall that the Weimar Republic in Germany had a go at inflation 100 years ago and that did not work out well for either Germany or the world.

[T]he west persists in its delusion that it is pushing Russia to the brink of collapse.

Psychiatrists have a term for this mental state–it is called projection.

The moral? — German leadership combines misdirected hysteria with appalling levels of stupidity

As someone who lived in Germany for three years — and highly respected Germany and Germans — my disappointed take on the cause of their currently frenzied rush toward self-destruction is notably sour.

See here.

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Nutcase Germany continues to drown itself in delusions regarding Russia