Comments by "Neodym" (@neodym5809) on "Why is Germany So Friendly with Putin? Germany's Russia Policy Explained - TLDR News" video.

  1. Understandable
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  2. Is it contradictory? What are German politicians work for? A strong economy. What do they need for it? Cheap Russian gas and access to the Chinese market. Makes sense. Furthermore, Germany trying to show leadership often results in a massive backlash (remember the whole refugee episode? Germany saves Hungary from drowning in refugees, but then gets attacked by Orban for doing so).
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  3.  @wilhelmschneider891  Merkel is the most popular politician and would have won re-election.
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  4. Around 3.5-4 million people of Russian heritage live in Germany.
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  5. Germany relies on the Chinese market to sell its goods. That is the reason why they are careful. Never forget the historic guilt of Germany towards Russia.
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  6.  @Barwasser  It takes 10-20 years to even build a reactor, and the costs are somewhere between 10-20bn (Looking at the `progress`of Hickley Point C and Flamanville)
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  7. BILD is the German equivalent of the British SUN.
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  8.  @drmodestoesq  they don’t. People are already in open protest. Putin is in power because he guarantees regular pension payments and food on the table. If he fails to deliver, Russian people will get rid of him.
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  9.  @flok462  Habeck, minister and Green politician, supports labelling gas as green
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  10.  @Croz89  you can run a nuclear power plant profitable until it explodes. Running it safely on the other hand is expensive.
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  11. You are really butchering German… It is not Vesta. it is Fer ste her
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  12.  @philipkoene5345  In absolute terms, you are correct. In relative terms, I stand by my description ;)
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  13. You made an error: The German greens are not against gas, they are against Nuclear.
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  14.  @corey2232  The origins of the Green party in Germany are the anti nuclear protests in the 70s/80s. Being against nuclear power is their most core believe, and got them into parliament the first time. The issues of global warming came much later. In the logic of the German Green party leadership, gas is a transitional technology, to bridge the time between fossil fuels and renewables. It is the least worst option. TLDR (keeping it in this channel`s spirit): The German Greens Party founding principle is to be anti nuclear, not anti fossil fuels.
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  15.  @valentinmitterbauer4196  the EU never was only a economic Union, but a political one. The ever closer Union predates Austrias membership by decades.
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  16.  @Croz89  With any other technology, you get more electricity for the money. Nuclear is the most expensive one of them all. It takes literal decades to build them, they cost tens of billions, and they arent even that reliable (France hat currently 25% of its reactors in an unplanned shutdown)
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  17.  @Croz89  There is a rather simple logic: the people want it. Democracy and all that. You can not keep a policy the vast majority of a population hatefully opposes.
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  18.  @Croz89  The anti nuclear movement is rather old in Germany (70s/80s), it is the origin of the German Green party. It was an anti establishment movement, the pressure came from the other side (politics, industry, economy). German energy prices are 52.5 % taxes, only 22.9% are energy production.
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  19.  @BernasLL  Germans HATE nuclear power. If you want to be kicked out of office, be pro nuclear. A simple democratic principle: dont implement policies the vast majority furiously hates.
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