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Doesn’t Gerhard Schröder have ties to the Russian gas industry?
by sul_tasto 5y ago
Doesn’t Gerhard Schröder have ties to the Russian gas industry?
- phatfish 5y agoThe anti-nuclear movement so clearly benefits Russian energy exports it's laughable. The definition of "useful idiot". Sure, in the years after Chernobyl it is expected there would be a genuine fear. But now we understand what went wrong and how to design safe reactors it is not a logical position.
- bell-cot 5y agoYes, infamously so.
- eCa 5y agoYes, he was heavily involved in the Nordstream pipelines and was/is a friend of Putin.
- ausudhz 5y agoSo a big part of the SPD is "pro Russia" They even asked to remove sanctions: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/how-german-climate-fund-set-out-help-russia-dodge-us-sanctions-2022-02-10/ https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/how-german-climate-f...
- this_user 5y agoHe didn't back then, and he wasn't the driving force behind the decision either, the Greens were. Stop trying to spin this into some sort of conspiracy.
- sul_tasto 5y agoIt was an honest question. I lived/studied in Germany back when he was chancellor, but I won’t pretend to know the ins and outs of German politics.