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What was the US meant to do? They warned Germany and others for years about becoming reliant on Russian gas.
by postingawayonhn 4y ago
What was the US meant to do? They warned Germany and others for years about becoming reliant on Russian gas.
- swarnie 4y agoWhat was the alternative? Because all i can think of is exploiting Africa or cosying up to middle eastern despots.
- RandomLensman 4y agoIn the last 10+ years: using their own gas. Large shale gas resources in Poland and Germany, for example.
- pydry 4y agoThe alternative the US was happy with was probably the one right next door. Poland has powered itself ~80% with coal for decades - attracting almost no flak for it.
- weberer 4y agoHow about not shutting down all their nuclear plants?
- bakuninsbart 4y agoThe US followed their interest, and got everything they wanted out of this conflict, which is fine, that's how countries generally act. It is rather a question of what Germany should have done, 10-15 years ago. Pushing the Association Agreement and the Maidan revolution were not in Germany's interest, in no world is putting Ukraine into our sphere worth escalating tensions so close to our borders and losing access to Russian resources. A region is only safe if all players in that region can feel safe, and Russian security interests were disregarded at every point since 2000. Done is done, but what I really can't forgive is that while pushing for this asinine conflict, there was literally no plan on how to deal with the consequences. Instead of diversifying our energy supply, we are now dependent on the US, which given its trajectory, will bite us in the arse 5 years down the line. Outside of France, there is literally 0 foreign policy competence left in the EU, and it is really showing with how helpless every crisis since 2008 has been handled.