• geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOP
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    Germany is upset about this because they sell cars to China. This will probable create Chinese counter tariffs on European cars.

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      9 hours ago

      because they sell cars to China

      For how much longer? Can German cars even still compete with the Chinese, or has that ship sailed already? Come, buy the best engineering of yesteryear! Yay!

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      Germany oligarchs are imbiciles who cornrred German economy into being a Russian pappet…

      When Merkel was advised about these risks by us and Poland, we were mocked within Germany is “old idiots”

      Now these same elites are hoping Ukraine shot blows over so they can go back to sucking Putin’s dick for gas.

      Germany was so unreliable that US had to blow that fucking pipeline to send a msg to the German nazi napo baby regime.

      Can’t make this shit up… European geopolitics are still as clown as ever.

      Dead Ukrainians is a small price to pay for cheap gas!

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        Creating an economic incentive is known for sane country leaders to hesitate to attack their business partner. Sadly Putin isn’t sane.

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        Russian gas was a cheap way for Germany to produce. The short term economic effects were more important to Merkels electability than any long term plans.

        When it comes to gas, Russia never shut off the tap. Instead it was America who blew up the Nordstream energy supply to garner support for a wider war. But now China is producing on cheap Russian gas

        At least Germany appears to heavily invest in green energy since Norstream blew up. Bless the sun for shining everywhere.