ralgland

I was of your opinion during the Biden administration. Now after researching the Epstein issues, I don't think that Trump was a formal asset but he definitely engaged in mutually beneficial deals. I think the presentation of the DNC and the infamous letter signed by 50 security analysts was a mistake.

If you go back:

- Trump bought extensive anti NATO full page ads around 1987 right after an extended trip to Russia.

- The father of Ivana was a Czech spy.

- Trump had a Russian buy a Florida house way above market price.

- Trump used a Russian expat to install TV sets in his Hyatt hotel (nice way of surveilling all guests).

- Trump was bailed out by Deutsche Bank (Epstein's favorite bank) when he was blacklisted by all American banks after his largest of innumerable bankruptcies. Whether that bailout was financed by Russians has not been proven but is still thought likely.

It is also possible that all that is his cover and he actually is a CIA asset. With Trump you just have to watch what he does and guess.

We had positive announcements like these 40 years ago, ways before Nord Stream was even planned, when Natural Gas was the future and households converted to Natural Gas heating.

It seems very unlikely that with sustained temperatures of -5 to -8°C in the winter months, which seem to get longer again, heating can be achieved with renewables in any way.

Heat pumps were already collapsing and making irritating fan noises at -8° this winter. Converting to heat pumps is expensive and the service costs are expensive, too.

LNG is needed for fertilizer and other chemical products, too and is hard to replace at all.

By all means, try renewables, but these enthusiasm waves leave me skeptical.