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Realpolitik would be for Europe to exploit its shale gas reserves instead of banning doing so. Yes, we need to move away from fossil fuels but the reality is t
by mytailorisrich 1y ago
Realpolitik would be for Europe to exploit its shale gas reserves instead of banning doing so.
Yes, we need to move away from fossil fuels but the reality is that we are still dependent on them so we may as well look at strategic independence and economic gains and produce what we can ourselves.
- ivan_gammel 1y agoThat is not a viable option for us if we need full replacement. Strategic independence will remain a goal, but in the meantime we need whatever works. Let Trump and Putin compete for access to European energy market.
- mytailorisrich 1y agoIt is a viable option. It might not cover all our needs (I don't know) but that does not mean we should not minimise imports and maximise domestic production.
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- m000 1y agoRealpolitik would be for Europe to understand that geography isn't going to change. Russia will always be your next-door neighbour. USA will always be an ocean away. Also, Putin is not immortal. So, your long game should be to forge amicable relations with your next-door neighbour, rather betting everything in your relationship with your manipulative friend on the other side of the pond. In the meantime, you should also become self-dependent.
- azmodeus 1y agoRealpolitik would be to arm yourself and project your influence like your big brothers are doing next door and across the pond. Russia would love to regain the European land the Soviet Union lost.
- m000 1y agoYour suggestions are far off from realpolitik. This is the recipe followed post-WW1, which brought us WW2. Europe itself is the proof that cooperation and good relationship among neighbours are the policies that bring peace and prosperity. And Putin is not an idiot to attempt expansion to lands with no ethnic-russian population. Such thing is clearly not feasible without the power structures of the former USSR.
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- FirmwareBurner 1y agoWW2 was brought by the humiliation and starvation of the German people by the European winners and by their own politicians, and Hitler easily capitalized on that making his rise to power a slam dunk. People like to think that if they would have assassinated Hitler early on, WW2 wouldn't have happened, but that's wrong. That would have just left the power vacuum empty for someone else to capitalize on the German populations' grievances and start the war. The history lesson is to make sure the masses of people are taken care of by their leaders, not to start censoring, imprisoning or assassinating political opponents who capitalize on the peoples' unhappiness.
- wolvesechoes 1y agoRealpolitik would be to recognize that there is no such political actor as Europe.