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Exactly my point. Trying to whitewash this with "need to do business" isn't helping your arguments. Some tried to use same ones for doing business with Nazis during WWII. They very much don't like when anyone reminds about it today.

Same will be for anyone who is doing business with Putin's fascists today.

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I find it deeply concerning we are still very much in bed with Putin. We should have taken drastic steps early and maybe be half way in tapping alternative sources. The fact Germany is happily closing nuclear power plants shows Europe is in for a rude awakening when Putin tightens the vice.

Have you done the numbers on how many nuclear power stations you need to replace all gas and oil heating in Germany? What would be your guess? 2 or 3? Or maybe it's more than France has at the moment. Just a thought...

And who do we buy oil/gas from? Venezuela? Iran? Saudi Arabia? United States? I don't see a reason why those countries are better than Russia.

Unfortunately it doesn’t even matter. The infrastructure simply doesn’t exist and takes many months to build. Germany could choose to buy from anywhere but it doesn’t matter, there’s no way to get the gas to where it’s needed in time for winter.

Well unfortunately Germany doesn’t have a leader strong enough to announce a military regime and ration the heating in the country.

Because none of those plan on taking over europe. Russia still has the goal to directly control all slavic countries and indirectly control the rest of Europe. Most europeans remember the USSR.

None of these countries are actively trying to erase another country from the map right now.

The US is a democratic country so far, Russia is not.

It’s incredibly childish, stupid and dangerous to pretend that these countries are all equally evil.

Does being a democracy make the US a better country than the others? If it's the voters, and not a guy, who decides to invade and take over your country, then is it OK?

And while none of those countries may be involved in a military conflict right now, they've been in the past. Recently.

So given there is no good country selling gas right now, I prefer to get the cheapest one. Thanks.

"Given that there is no perfect food, they are all the same to me. And thus I prefer to eat dirt, since it's the cheapest."

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