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I totally understand this feeling but let me tell you that German politicians are likewise using these numbers to label their own populace as lazy. So actually politicians don't seem to really care about nationality when they can smear someone and destruct the welfare state.

But maybe Germans deserve it a bit more lol.

Das hat kaum mit Unternehmen zu tun. Die Börsenpreise für Strom sinken seit dem Start der liberalisierten Energiemärkte in Europa kontinuierlich.

Was in DE seit Jahren steigt sind die Netzentgelte. Der Staat wollte die Investitionen in die Infrastruktur nicht leisten, also zahlt es jetzt der Verbraucher.

Und dann gibts so Spezialisten wir die Bayern, deren Industrie mit am meisten Strom benötigt. Deren Staatsregierung hat sich aber stets für unterirdische Leitungen eingesetzt, was im Bau leider 5-fache Kosten verursacht.

Das ist kein Marktversagen, das ist Staatsversagen.

Richtig. Je weniger Grundlastkraftwerke natürlich laufen und je höher der Anteil an Wind- und Solarstrom, desto mehr wird auch an den Spotmärkten gehandelt werden, weil ich als Windparkbetreiber natürlich kaum garantieren kann täglich die gleiche Menge X zu liefern. Das könnte durch Akkuparks/Pumpspeicher natürlich mit der Zeit wieder besser werden, aber die werden zunächst vermutlich auch eher an den Spot- und Balancing-Märkten aktiv sein, um kurzfristige Schwankungen auszugleichen.

Very true. Funny how OP's comment was just referring to a completely different argument. Instead of answering the question if the argument brought by the Proton guy could by chance be true, they again referred to their derailing...

Was für eine Verschwörungstheorie ist das? China will die EU zerschlagen...?

Hey that's great. Also a happy citizen of Elkupalos here.

Whatever artifacts might be there... it's a real photo. I know the guy who was carried away.

Yes that moral imbalance also striked me when reading this. When grandma has a gut feeling towards brown people and talks about that, she'd be called a bigot here. But when it's about men, the highest upvoted advice is to listen to the feeling of fear in your gut...

If you think Russia can never be trusted you'd have to say the same about the other countries failing their security obligations. Those who guaranteed Ukraines territorial integrity, the US, the UK, didn't act and send their own troops to stop the invasion.

IMO the friendly way hasn't been tried as NATO also didn't care about how Russia feels about this and that. The story is well known. There's not a single country or single person to blame but many of the involved actors.

To me it's lunacy to think Russia will be defeated and split up. Who's going to defeat them? With which soldiers? Europe is an old continent, there are so few young people... It would be the final demise of the European economy having to fight a war with Russia. And do you consider the risks? Russia has nukes. Before anything even remotely to the scenario of being split up happens, it will have used them. No sane person can ignore this threat.

You're right. People seem to have forgotten what mutually assured destruction is all about. Ukraine is outside of this protection but all NATO countries are covered by it.

Yes Schröder was also criticised rightfully for his neoliberal policies that so many socdem governments in the west introduced during these years. But IMO you also have to give him credit for the stuff he was right about, which is so rapidly forgotten. And having peaceful and tighter relationships with Russia, even if it is an authoritarian country, was one of his better ideas. As a European I want peace on this continent. And we're not gonna have peace against Russia, only with Russia.