Nordstream 2 is fairly irrelevant to the current situation. It was bombed while it was already shut down and all that did was ensure that Germany can't buy gas from Russia in that way. Were all of the EU resume trading with Russia, then yes, Germany would be at a disadvantage.
The gas price hikes did do major damage at first, but it's classic old capitalist profiteering that fueled inflation and the sustained rise in prices.
Liberals act as if the malaise of German economy (it's not a dramatic collapse, but it's mostly chugging along and slowly worsening) is all Russia's fault, while the fascists and (the patsocs go "we should return to being friends with Russia to improve the economy".
Neither solution offers anything but a return to the status quo, even if it is unfortunately an easy answer. At the same time, the 🚦 government and the right wing opposition are all eager to restore capitalist growth via capitalist methods and are as usual at the mercy of the bourgeois' whims.
Nordstream 2 is fairly irrelevant to the current situation. It was bombed while it was already shut down and all that did was ensure that Germany can't buy gas from Russia in that way. Were all of the EU resume trading with Russia, then yes, Germany would be at a disadvantage.
The gas price hikes did do major damage at first, but it's classic old capitalist profiteering that fueled inflation and the sustained rise in prices.
Liberals act as if the malaise of German economy (it's not a dramatic collapse, but it's mostly chugging along and slowly worsening) is all Russia's fault, while the fascists and (the patsocs go "we should return to being friends with Russia to improve the economy".
Neither solution offers anything but a return to the status quo, even if it is unfortunately an easy answer. At the same time, the 🚦 government and the right wing opposition are all eager to restore capitalist growth via capitalist methods and are as usual at the mercy of the bourgeois' whims.