I really wonder what nationality these European officials are ....
Of course it's German and Hungarian
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2025
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Solid plan, what could possibly go wrong.
Why anyone trusts Putin at this point is beyond me.
I don't think people trust him, but a lot fear him and his power.
One of those being the orange fuckwit in the White House. Last time Putin just asked Trump for a list of US top spies and they started dropping like flies.
So Trump has now cut aid to Ukraine (not military aid yet, prolly would've if he could've), so he can then say he's "brokered peace" and then hand Ukraine a list of demands written by Putin.
So because of all that sort of shitfuckery, the corrupt of Europe might be influenced as well.
And scheming Vlad wins his special military operation.
Fuck that. Keep the Russian gas off and let Trump rage whatever he wants. We can help Ukraine as Europe. More help for them now that US can't be trusted.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/29/ukraine-trump-suspension-us-foreign-aid-usaid
Fuck Trump, Fuck Putler, vive la liberté and Слава Україні!
Pathetic
We need some carrot, we can't just do it with stick. If they agree to pre-2014 borders I'm all for some form of normalization and trade.
Fuck that without a regime change
The real question is how much time will pass before they regroup and break the peace again
6-8 years.
I understand that the German economy needs a boost, but we must try to take advantage of the situation to gain independence and ecology.
Can't we just ban gaz, whatever where they come from?
Yes.
However, solar and wind are both intermittent power sources that cut out at times determined by nature. The sun does not always shine, and the wind does not always blow.
We do not presently have economical storage capability at the kind of scale required to just ignore this. Pumped hydrostorage is the most-economical, but that requires special geography. I'd guess that Europe could probably expand it somewhat if it were willing to flood some river valleys with towns, relocate the residents. But there are finite numbers of places prime for it that aren't already being used.
So normally, instead of energy storage, what one also wants is to pair these forms of generation with some form of dispatchable generation that can be used when nature has decided to shut off intermittent forms of generation. When they aren't working, one ramps up the dispatchable stuff.
There are various types of energy generation that work reasonably well for this (coal, oil, wood pellets, etc), but the most-economical in 2025, as well as being reasonably non-polluting in particulate matter (albeit emitting carbon dioxide) is burning natural gas.
So if one plans to do solar or wind, then one is probably also committing to natural gas.
Thank you for the archive link!