Posted on 05/08/2022 11:25:12 PM PDT by ganeemead
If he is right, then Germany, France, the UK, and others are basically committing suicide by toeing the deep-state line on Ukraine.
My man Gonzalo.
Winter is coming, EuroClowns...
If this is correct, it’s not surprising.
Europe has long tried to be too clever by half and has gotten away with it for about 75 years.
they are not worried
all they need are sun and wind
Gonzalo: “German statesman Otto von Bismarck once famously observed that the Russian cavalry were “slow to saddle up, but ride fast.”
Pretty good description of Russia. Some uninformed posters keep suggesting that the Russian people will rise up against Putin when the reality is that the more common criticism of Putin by Russians is that he is too cautious, too slow.
I have been saying this same thing recently.
How do you force a country to change by boycotting their goods YOU desperately need to survive?
Such action is STUPID.
As your country’s people begin to starve and freeze, because of a Russia goods boycott, they will seriously question why Ukraine’s problems demand all European people suffer mightily.
For anybody who wants to watch his channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfUzUq5L9NFv2GMVGbEBgkg/videos
They believe what their TeeVees tell them.
In all things.
Thanks. I hadn’t gotten Gonzalo’s new channel.
For the most part Russian exports to Europe are easily substitutable on the world market.
The only big sticking point is natural gas, because the Euros and Russia built a pipeline network to get Russian natural gas to Europe. That was a very foolish thing because it tied much of European energy to a single, politically questionable source. Various US administrations warned about this, going back four decades. Now the chickens have come home to roost.
The silver lining is that most of that nat gas is used for electric power generation, and there are many ways to generate electricity, much of which the Euros can expand fairly quickly.
Some commentary here is hysterical.
Thanks for the red pill, I’ll see where it takes me.
Thanks for the perspective.
the EU countries will be able to get along without Russia. They won’t collapse like a house of cards - that’s overstating it. But yes, their inputs will get a bit more expensive. Russia was the cheaper alternative to for example Middle Eastern oil, North American gas, South American metals, etc etc but an over reliance on Russia was always a point of vulnerability for them. Look no further than Germany for an example.
The easy ride for Europe when they could get away with cheap inputs and relying on America to provide their defense for them - so that they could throw money at socialist welfare state programs and Gaia worship at home - is over.
Now they will have to make some tough choices. They will have to cut back on the socialism and the Gaia worship if they are to remain competitive. It can easily be done, but they have to make up their minds to do it. Let’s see if they can muster the political will to grow up and start acting like responsible countries.
Yep. Energy for example....build nuclear power plants which they have the technology to do or go back to mining coal which they have. They CAN solve this problem. They just have to overcome their own envirosocialists in order to do so. Gaia worship is a luxury they can no longer afford.
On a side note, if the US could overcome its own Gaia worship, it could be the source of at least some of the oil and gas that Europe will need. It would also be highly beneficial to the US economy to do so while simultaneously strengthening its allies. We need to start beating the drum that opposition to oil and gas and nuclear power here at home plays right into Putin’s hands. Therefore opponents of it must be Putin stooges.*
*hey, it works for Lefties. We might as well use the same tactic on them.
The French produce a lot of food.
Germany produces many things that can be sold to get money to buy food.
Putins government, and the Saudis, were responsible for funding many environmental activist groups. A lot of that was Putinist astroturf. Including some global warming protests in much of Europe last month, where they splashed red paint all over the Cortes (the Parliament) in Madrid. I was an eye-witness to that.
How much of our money did he waste by sending Jill and a 50 member entourage to flout our gifts....and they didn't row there.
And then there's Pelosi's photo op...I suppose they rowed their way there, too.
That would be fine if there wasn’t a worldwide shortage to start with.
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