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I'm sorry but you're wrong. Only 46% of Germans want to stick to the plan of not using gas from Russia's new Northstream 2 pipeline when things will get more tough in the winter: https://www.stern.de/politik/deutschland/forsa-blitzumfrage-...

Most of the proponents of giving in to Putin's tempting offer are coming from the right populist AFD party or from former East Germany.

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I think the following poll is more relevant here:

https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/220715-politbarometer...

https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/politbarometer-union-...

70% say that we should still support Ukraine even with high energy prices. And this value is stable so far.

The Nordstream 2 issue is more complex, and I don't think the people answering the poll fully understand it. I also don't know how exactly it was worded in your poll. Opening NS2 would not actually change anything, we already have enough pipelines for all the gas from Russia. But it would appear as if Germany was giving in to Russian demands, that we let Russia yank us around with obviously untrue claims about why NS1 is not delivering gas. NS2 is a political issue and a very touchy subject for our allies, which is why it's dead and Germany won't revive it, that would be a dipomatic catastrophe.

Germans think that they are rich enough to save the world. The same thing was visible in 2015 during the refugee crisis. The problem this winter may be not enough gas, and the high gas bills for the gas that we do use, will hit next year.

How on earth would they do that. The pipeline isn't even finished and work was halted quite a while ago. It an easy statement without actual probability of happening anytime soon.

From your source: "The proposal [to open Northstream 2] is rejected by a majority (53 per cent), but just over a third would be in favour."

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