Germany’s Catastrophic Russia Problem

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[RealLifeLore]

To my European, Ukrainian and German friends and viewers; stay safe, healthy, and vigilant this winter. I sincerely wish you all the best to get through this and I only wish I could do more to help.

[maxwatzl]

Germany should have listened to its neighbours when they were trying to convince them to be more independent from Russia, especially Poland and the baltic states. Writing this as a German.

[NotreDanish]

I understand why people were scared by Fukushima, and it’s reasonable, but modern nuclear reactor designs are the safest they’ve ever been, especially when built in areas that are relatively safe from natural disasters. I wish more people would give nuclear consideration at least

[christerprestberg]

There's a pretty good quote from a former swedish primeminister, Göran Persson, back in 2006 or 2007. When asked why he was skeptical to Nordstream he said something akin to "because it is russian, and it contains gas".

[SpeedSlowVideos]

One thing to note is, that the overdependence on Russia was the intentional attempt at pursuing good relations through trade. Like after WW2 when the EU formed to make Europeans' economies so interdependent, that it would be too costly for everyone to have wars. It was thought, that Russia wouldn't be stupid enough to tank their economy and kill their only exports by, for example, invading Ukraine. They would never be that crazy.

[germancat]

Real life lore is gonna need a entire playlist just for catastrophic gas problems

[lil__shmeat]

Alternative title: "How Germany shot itself in the foot"

[Mensch]

Well German here from 10 months later. This Video describes the fear that many Germans had before the winter pretty good. And yes the temporary increase in cost was a huge burden for German households. But luckily the winter was pretty mild and you forgot to mention one vital fact. Germany doesn't rlly have a lot of debts compared to other countries in Europe so while we try to avoid this we can always throw money at any problem if need be. Which is exactly what we did to fill the gas reserves. Also the LNG Terminals are more or less on schedule, one is in operation and ppl are starting to doubt if we'll even need all 5. Nuclear is completely faced out by now, the effect of that on the energy market was despite the worst fears more or less non existent. Also the Government increased its effort to build more wind and solar and so far 2023 is the best year we've ever had regarding renewable energy production. The only effect that still sticks is that we're more reliant on our good ol coal than we planned to be, but from the looks of things that will be but a temporary setback. So yeah much was feared, surprisingly little happened.

[darkmaster]

Trump said a lot of junk but that clip, where even he sees the problem, shows how naive Germany was.

[nathanseper]

I think Germany tying itself to Russian gas will be seen as one of the biggest strategic blunders in history.

[strahlungsopfer]

I find it fascinating that this one video is more valuable for understanding the current conflict with Russia than the entire coverage of the topic in German TV for the last couple of months.

[tde]

21:40 You say that german government has received a lot of pushback against Nord Stream, but the picture shows a PRO Nord Stream demo xD the banner "Gas aufdrehen" literall means that they should start operating the pipeline

[DubbleOh]

It’s a shame the people who make these decisions largely avoid their consequences, but still reap their benefits

[kingjames]

I love how poland built their LNG port literally as far away from russia as possible... lol.

[SDOtunes]

German here, gotta applaud the accuracy and especially those details like the BER disaster leading to low faith in German construction projects. You might have added that Germany has some minor gas reserves that could be accessed by fracking. There's an ongoing discussion in the Northern states about if and how to access those.

[Owen_loves_Butters]

You have no idea how upset I was when I first heard that Germany was shutting down its nuclear power plants, and now, hearing about them having a major energy crisis, I just want to cry.

[Sarthanas]

Closing their nuclear power plant and replacing them with coal and gaz was an abysmal decision...

[faizankhaliq]

Wow I never thought I would say this. But the way Donald Trump summarised it was totally on point. He was absolutely right and very straightforward. How can you stand together if you are paying billion of dollars to someone you want protection against lol.

[gabrielonnerfors]

Is this channel just one guy's work? The production value is insane

[justingolba]

could you possibly provide links or origin of your facts for citing purposes? Great videos, but I was doing something for class and not sure if this video alone is good enough for proper citation.