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how does Germany getting gas from Russia let them "control the EU"? It's not getting gas that's indicative. It's getting gas intentionally bypassing the other
by blfr 4y ago
how does Germany getting gas from Russia let them "control the EU"?
It's not getting gas that's indicative. It's getting gas intentionally bypassing the other EU countries and Ukraine with Nordstream 1&2. Thus enabling Russia and Germany to squeeze eastern EU.
Honest question: do you generally follow world events and not know this? I always wonder what the political and historical consciousness is in the west.
- morsch 4y agoYou're still not saying how this lets Germany "control the EU". If anything it sounds like you want Eastern Europe to control the access to gas in order to have an inordinate amount of influence over Germany. So basically what Russia is doing now. Being independent of Russian energy resources would also "bypass" Poland and Ukraine. Germany should and could have been there ten years ago, hopefully we will be ten years from now.
- blfr 4y agoRussians and Germans built very expensive Nordstream 1&2 to route around nominative German allies. This is basically official Russian doctrine that Germans, including personally their chancellor, joined. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falin-Kvitsinsky_Doctrine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falin-Kvitsinsky_Doctrine The goal was not to be independent but to become a hub of Russian gas to resell.