Former German Chancellor Merkel was not a climate science denier per se, but she acted like one by makingt the German economy addicted to Russian methane so that's all that really matters to me.
New reporting indicates that Angela Merkel was aware of Russia's intention to reduce gas supply to blackmail Europe to speed up the Nord Stream 2 pipeline launch but concealed the information, German media outlet Handelsblatt reported on June 6, citing classified documents it had obtained.
#DEpol #Merkel #Scholz #NordStream2
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I'd be interested in your #Handelsblatt article regarding #AngelaMerkel and the gas deals. You have to remember, though that now-Chancelor #OlafScholz was Angie's Finance Minister.
According to this* article, only the #FDP and the Greens #DieGrünen are interested in a Federal investigative commission to unearth what happened with the Kremlin Connection.
There is another aspect, the chancelor before Angie,...
@HistoPol
My search using the words I'd lifted from the article brought up this, but the article I grabbed them from was on the MSN news aggregator site which is why I didn't link to it.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/merkel-withheld-information-russias-intention-103152384.html
#DEpol #Merkel #Scholz #NordStream2
I've read the article.
It had the link to the Handelsblatt article*.
Alas, as usual, it is paywalled.
I cannot get access.
Hopefully, someone is a subscriber?
A lot of the things mentioned in the MSM summary did not surprise me, though. I'd love to have a deeper look...
@GreenFire @HistoPol this link is probably best. https://kyivindependent.com/handelsblatt-merkel-russia-gas/
I dislike the 'amp' and msn and yahoo for unnecessary indirection, cookiewall, javascript..
I agree on all counts, but one:
All are secondary pieces of information, referencing the source, the German business newspaper, #Handelsblatt.
The original article seems to have further information...and OFC I'd love 2 read the leaked "documents."
#DEpol #Merkel #Scholz #NordStream2
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...also from Olaf's party, was the scandalous #GerhardSchröder, who is in so deep with #Russia in general and #Gazprom that many in his party have distanced himself from him.
Until the escalation of the #WarInUkraine in 2022, the decades-old mantra of #German foreign policy was, "Wandel durch Handel" ("Change Through Commerce.)" The same type of disastrous foreign policy that the US had been pursuing with #China before #Xi's rise.
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@GreenFire My question is….how did they get classified documents? They should be in jail for even receiving them let alone disseminating the info.
@Beachbum
I think that @HistoPol would be a better source to ask this:
"My question is….how did they get classified documents? They should be in jail for even receiving them let alone disseminating the info."
I'll add that with all of the weaponized disinfo being thrown at us during this hybrid war that we should not come to conclusions on this kind of stuff too early in investigation.
#DEpol #Merkel #Scholz #NordStream2
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"...we should not come to conclusions on this kind of stuff too early in investigation."
Absolutely.
This newspaper article* even comes to the conclusion, that the facts might never be unearthed, being swept under the rug of history by Germany's (historically) two biggest parties, the FDP and the CDU, who have been providing Germany's chancellors for decades.
My gut feeling has been since...
#DEpol #Merkel #Scholz #NordStream2
...#NordStream2 was blown up that the secrets envolved could lead to a much bigger scandal than Watergate.
But that is just a hunch so far.
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#DEpol #RUSpol #HybridWarfare #InfoWarfare
"My question is….how did they get classified documents? They should be in jail for even receiving them let alone disseminating the info."
#Europe is not the #US. In several countries, including #Germany, an independent press serves as an important Fourth Estate in the system of checks and balances.
Some #German newspapers, such as the #SüddeutscheZeitung, are part of an international cross-media...
@Beachbum
#DEpol #RUSpol #HybridWarfare #InfoWarfare
...organizations focussing on #InvestigativeJoournalism (e. g. #PanamaPapers, #SuisseSecrets, etc,) usually involving data leaks and #DataJournalism.
What has already been uncovered about the disgraced #PutinsPuppet and former Chancellor #GerhardSchröder, who unquestionable profited greatly from his favoritism of #Putin while serving as chancellor,...
#DEpol #RUSpol #HybridWarfare #InfoWarfare
...AT LEAST after retiring from public office, is worrying.
Connecting the dots: Hardly a week seems to pass by without a new scandal involving a representative of the extremist right-wing AfD (#NoAfD) party. Several "allegedly" have received huge sums of money in return for access to the #German and #European parliaments.
Now, there is no indication that either #Scholz or #Merkel ever...
#DEpol #RUSpol #HybridWarfare #InfoWarfare
...received any money from #Moscow. However, given the loads of #DarkMoney having been spen by the #Kremlin in Western democracies, it would be astonishing, if #Putler's agent hadn't AT LEAST tried to suborn the successors of #Schröder as well.
I am positive that the former #KGB agent was an avoid student of #SunTzu.
And now, let's ask the decisi ve question of the evening:
...
#DEpol #RUSpol #HybridWarfare #InfoWarfare
...IF bribery was only attempted and NO other key personnel at the #CDU and #SPD were really involved, *why are both parties stonewalling?!?*
Finally, YES, this is a matter of #NationalSecurity (or rather #EUsecurity.) HOWEVER, the current (scarce, admittedly) evidence rather seems to suggest that the political leaders might have been *knowingly* endangering EU security.
Therefore, a...
#DEpol #RUSpol #HybridWarfare #InfoWarfare
...complete official investigation with full access rights is, in my view, essential.
If a public official committed high treason, we all need to know and they need to be held to account, in #Europe, #America, and elsewhere.
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#DEpol #Merkel #Scholz #Gabriel #NordStream2 #EnergyWars
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Oh, absolutely not, you are right. It seems that too many luminaries of the two big #German parties were involved in the #Russian #FossilFuel Bermuda Triangle.
Take this interview with #SigmarGabriel before the #Russian mass invasion. He, one of the paragon of Social-Democracy took an utterly freeemarket-deregulation stance worthy of the Liberals #ChristianLindner, #FDP.
TBH, there is...
#DEpol #Merkel #Scholz #Gabriel #NordStream2 #EnergyWars
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...something rotten in the state of Denmark, it seems:
"*#Europe must have the right to decide its #energy laws and market rules sovereignly...*
The debate about #NordStream actually presents us with a fundamental question:
do we want to reverse the #European liberalization of the energy market and return to political control over the procurement of #energy resources for our companies?
I...
#DEpol #Merkel #Scholz #Gabriel #NordStream2 #EnergyWars
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...believe that #Europe's fundamental decision taken a few years ago that the #EuropeanUnion should set the framework for our energy market, regulate and monitor competition there, but *otherwise leave it up to the companies to decide who they procure their energy resources from and under what conditions*, is the right one.
#DEpol #Merkel #Scholz #Gabriel #NordStream2 #EnergyWars
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...energy market.
The fact that some Eastern European states want a Lex Nord Stream to prevent this pipeline does not change this. Interestingly, the Russian #Yamal #gas #pipeline running through #Poland is not being called into question. The liberalization of the gas market has given us many economic advantages."*
(Note: #Gabriel has since admitted that mistakes were made)
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https://www.rnd.de/politik/sigmar-gabriel-zu-nordstream-2-europa-muss-sein-energierecht-souveran-entscheiden-KLJU2YACK5CGHF36ZQCZYUGCEU.html