it’s most probably russia

It is likely. But the way this thread developed, people were simply jumping to conclusions. I don’t like these reflexive accusations.

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Huh? No, it was written in the moment.

changing rhe goalpoasts is another bad actor technique, just saying.

I just referred to the obvious example for another high-seas sabotage action that wasn’t fully resolved yet, from the same war. The reason for that was to illustrate that it may take a while to see through spin.

Not sure which goal posts you think were moved by this.

Not jumping to foregone conclusions is a good idea, no matter how likely a particular actor is, imo. And it’s quite likely that we’ll have to accept a degree of uncertainty for years. The Nord Stream sabotage wasn’t fully resolved either so far.

In the case of fracked LNG that’s highly debatable. But even in the case of conventionally-sourced pipeline gas, flaring and pipeline losses are significant and often underreported.

You know what, Clippy, you depressing relativebonker? Imma go ahead right-clicking your lower back and choose Animation.

Reading her Wikipedia entry, it sounds like she was dismissed for being too much of a Scholz loyalist. And that kind of matches my recollection: She was careful to discuss everything with Scholz and to not cross him, whereas her [suc]cessor just took matters in his own hands and ran with it.

According to a media report, in the discussion about the possible delivery of Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, which intensified at the end of 2022, she forbade her ministry from even recording its own stock of Leopard 2 and Leopard 1 tanks, as knowledge of deliverable stocks could potentially have put further pressure on Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz. [DeepL, Wikipedia]

In der Ende 2022 sich verstärkenden Diskussion um die mögliche Lieferung von Leopard-2-Panzern an die Ukraine verbot sie nach einem Medienbericht ihrem Ministerium, den eigenen Bestand an den Panzern Leopard 2 und Leopard 1 überhaupt zu erfassen, da Kenntnis lieferbarer Bestände möglicherweise weiteren Druck auf den Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz hätte aufbauen können.

I’d completely missed that. Seems Habeck was right yet again.

Among German parties, the Greens were the most skeptical of Russia for the past ~15 years. But until the war, they were never hawkish. Only days before the war started, foreign minister Baerbock (Greens) said Germany wouldn’t deliver weapons. In late January 2022, the government then promised “5000 helmets” (although I think this may have had more to do with the chancellor than the Greens).

Started in September and it only has 312 signatures and it’s on change•org? …

Works for me. But it’s archived as well. old version: https://archive.ph/8fqos - new version: https://archive.ph/RmrvS

as gas is still being touted as a ‘transition fuel’. This is pure fabrication – gas is the main driver of emissions growth in 2024.

Conceivably, flexible production from gas could be used for the transition. I suppose, the people who started this idea, started out from the point that “flexible production using fossil gas (among other things) could help the transition” whereas the executives they talked to understood “gas is the transition”.

Don’t worry. Also — you can edit, e.g. the title indefinitely.

the number of people that can consider geopolitics beyond the childlike concept of goodies and baddies, is very small.

a learned man like yourself will already know

Your political views notwithstanding — your condescending attitude is not helping.

support ranging from the far-right Alternative to Germany

I love that they’re using “to” rather than “for”.

That’s indeed tinfoil-hattery. These companies care about quarterly profits and they extrapolate the future from the past (where nothing bad ever happened to them). They may find another business model eventually but they’ll make it up on the go.

I am trying to mod away the worst bits here. I’d appreciate you not making this harder. :)

I have a translation app. It doesn’t matter either way though, given that this sub is in English not Polish.

It’s “Conservatives”.

Weird incident & a weird article. The author is apparently struggling to write a third-person article about himself.