This Monday, Moscow Germany is turning off the gas tap for maintenance work on the Nord Stream I pipeline. Will it be turned up again in a few days? The federal government fears the worst. A commentary by Georg Anastasiadis.
In the Ukraine war, the guns are firing from full barrels. And Putin’s projectiles hit – at least propaganda – every day more menacingly in Germany. The Kremlin ruler predicts “catastrophic consequences” if the sanctions continue. It will become clear in a few days whether the threatening gestures surrounding the maintenance work on the Nord Stream I gas pipeline that is now beginning were only the preliminary skirmish to an even more comprehensive gas war between Russia and Germany. In Berlin, people fear the worst. “We won’t let anyone buy our guts,” asserted the chancellor defiantly. For real?
Security has never been available for free in human history
Putin knows where to grab Germans who are spoiled by wealth. They were the profit maximizers of globalization, who always spoke of morality and at the same time surrendered to inhuman regimes in Moscow and Beijing. To this day, many do not want to admit that being carefree has a price and that safety has never been available for free in human history. They feel bothered by the Ukrainians’ struggle for freedom. And the poorer ones are not without reason asking themselves whether they now have to foot the bill for the party.
The AfD and the left are already bluntly demanding the sacrifice of Ukraine on the altar of a dictated peace with Putin, and the big calibers are already being used in Munich. Markus Söder accuses the government of fundamentally failing in its mission to “provide warm apartments, energy and affordable food”. That’s bold, after all it was 16 years of Union-led governments that got the country into this situation, and Bavaria was at the forefront of the nuclear phase-out and other follies. But the CSU boss hopes that the citizens will look for a (different) scapegoat now that the German business model, which has become untenable, is collapsing and the “ordeal” predicted by the philosopher king Habeck begins.
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