Comments by "something like that" (@somethinglikethat2176) on "What is Angela Merkel's Legacy? Her Successes and Failures - VisualPolitik EN" video.

One thing that separates good leaders from great maybe the ability to pull the nation along while it seeks to give in to it's more basic impulses.
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I don't understand why people blame luck for the politicians they have. They are not randomly assigned, the respective voting publics are picking them
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I don't remember her killing political rivals or winning 120% of the vote.
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The problem is that price spikes in things like gas aren't unexpected. They happen regularly enough that they should be anticipated. Renewable energy was never going to solve the energy storage problem or intermittent generation issues by now or in the near future. Germany's nuclear policy over the past couple of decades has been driven by fear and political appeal at the cost of science and economics.
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One problem with that is public opinion often changes with the wind and many government policies play out over decades.
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@shakthianjanananayakkara6528 yeah the Axis sucked at supporting each other. Replace Allied cooperation with that of the Axis and WW2 would have been an even more bloody affair.
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@charonboat6394 you might want to re read that section of history again. There was definitely some shenanigans going on. For example, she never had an armed mob that out numbered the German military running around beating people up.
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@patricko9479 renewables have shown how vulnerable they are to disruption with the current energy crisis. It's all well and good to say renewables are cheaper when the sun is, shining and the wind is blowing however if we look at France and Germany, the French nuclear lead power gird has shown itself both cheaper and more environmentally friendly.
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@charonboat6394 regardless of her policies and its impact, real or imagined, she governed with the consent of her people.
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@charonboat6394 well I must admit I don't follow the ins and outs of EU politics as close as I once it however a foreign leader commenting on the results of other countries elections is still worlds apart from what the likes of Putin and Hitler did. There are many aspects of policy I disagree with the former Chancellor on, but for better or worse she always did so while commanding the support of the German people through the free and fair elections.
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Even with the world's most ambitious push for renewables they still would not have solved the storage problem. And without solving that, Germany is in the same situation either way. The cold hard fact of the matter is that hoping the wind is blowing and the sun is shining is not a solution to the current energy crisis.
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@EdgelordOfEdginess maybe if they rioted a bit more it would fix things.
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