Germany's Mittelstand Is Collapsing

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2 points·Michelangelo11··4 comments

> Germany will yet again throw billions at the continuously failing energiewende (energy transition), which is one of the main reasons for Germany’s economic problems to begin with.

Nope. It was Putin that invaded Ukraine. We are now back to pre-war levels of gas and electricity prices. Conservative media just loves to blame everything on the green transition.

And all other points the article makes are absurd. We already have a phrase for that in Germany: "Aber die Gruuuueeeennneeen". It's like thanks Obama. Russian troll farms just love this.

And it was the conservative administration in the 90s which introduced the first renewable feed-in law (sponsored by a Bavarian MP), and another conservative one which decided the nuclear exit.

So it’s fair to say there had been a broad consensus across the political spectrum in Germany.

It was Putin that invaded Ukraine.

Categorically disagree.

A much more fundamental error was made, in deciding to eat from Putin's hand in the first place (and to bank the country's energy security on that perceived benefit), despite everything we've known about the guy since 2000. That was something German politicians went and did, not an external circumstance that was forced on them.

That's the key point the troll farms are trying to distract everyone from.

The pre-war energy status quo was also not good, and further in the context of the zero-sum german budget created by the Schuldenbremse a euro invested in the energiewende is a euro that cannot be more productively invested elsewhere.

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