Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "German mask scandal: ‘Unforgiveable violations of ethical standards’ | Conflict Zone" video.

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  3.  @Mephy0712  Nothing was being explained when he was waffling, that's the point. He was just deflecting, he didn't want to explain because the actual answers aren't pleasant. The actual questions did not have complex answers. Here's the answers to his questions Nordstrom 2 costs less to Germany to complete and never use, than it does to pause, halt to terminate. If they pause, halt or terminate it German taxpayers owe billions to Russia and to construction partners. The existence of such a contract creates an environment where Russia is able to influence German domestic and foreign policy. On the basis of that he would like to stop talking about halting Nordstrom 2 and talk about whether they'll ever use it or not instead, and not talk about the influence Russia has on German politics. When asked about energy security for Europe if Russia cuts off supply. He said that by relying more on Russia for supply and connecting all of europe to that supply through a couple of pipelines from Russia, then the energy supply is somehow going to be more secure. When asked about using Nordstrom to influence Russia on human rights he said it is important to decouple trade and human rights because trade can't influence human rights anyway. When asked about China he said it's important to couple trade and human rights because obviously those things go together and it will clearly help influence things. In other words what he's saying is, yes, Germany will absolutely put trade/business deals above human rights and will say whatever it has to in order to justify that. What he's also saying is that the USA has been run around complaining about this country or that country as a sales tactic for their own products. The USA would like Nordstrom 2 to halt not because of genuine concern over human rights, but because they have millions of tonnes of natural gas from fracking they want to unload somewhere. The USA aren't talking about China human rights out of genuine concern but because they want those trade contracts signed with US companies instead. There you go, that was essentially the entire interview, most of it was the minister trying to deflect from those things.
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  8.  @lores996  AstraZeneca aren't illegally doing anything. They're a business, who made order commitments to multiple countries at the same time. The order the EU placed was impossibly large for the timescale they want it delivered in. So the EU STOLE vaccine from Australia. Vaccine we paid for. Here's an analogue that might help you understand what happened. Imagine you walk into McDonald's and order 300 chicken nuggets. They're able to deliver them but it's going to take time to get their cooked nugget production up to scale for your unusually large order. They ask you to wait. While you're waiting they deliver a 10 piece nuggets to another customer who ordered at the same time as you because they had those nuggets cooked and it was easy to fulfill. Your response to that is to walk over to that customer and take the nuggets from their tray, claiming it's not your fault you took the nuggets it's McDonald's fault because they haven't fulfilled your 300 nugget order. The EU stole a vaccine shipment during a pandemic, and is talking about stealing another one. And it stole that shipment from a long time ally. That is going to have long term and far reaching effects not just on the relationship the EU has with Australia but with all of its partners and allies. It's lost serious credibility because of this debarkle. The EU needs to realise how unreasonably large their order was and either be patient on delivery or seek to reduce the amount of vaccine they need from one supplier by placing supplementary orders with others. Something they've started to do with the J&J order.
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