‘We will soon be next’: German leaders sound alarm on Trump’s Ukraine plan – POLITICO
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German political leaders have reacted with alarm to U.S. President Donald Trump’s bombshell announcement that his administration will conduct peace negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the head of European leaders.

“To be clear, peace must last over the long term. It must secure Ukraine’s sovereignty,” said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday. “That is why we will never support a dictated peace. Nor will we accept any solution that leads to a decoupling of European and American security. Only one person would benefit from that. President Putin.”

Scholz, whose Social Democratic Party (SPD) is in third place according to polls ahead of a Feb. 23 national election, called for more spending on Germany’s defense and military aid for Ukraine, and urged conservatives to relax the country’s strict spending rules — a theme he has touched on repeatedly during the election campaign — in order to do so.

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  • xmunk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    259·
    10 days ago

    Any chance yall can turn back on your reactors so you can actually be energy independent again?

    We’ve got tons of uranium over in Canada and you’re welcome to it.

    • Anivia@feddit.orgEnglish
      132·
      10 days ago

      Turning the existing reactors back on is not an option anymore, they are already being dismantled. Building new ones would not be worth it when investing in renewables is cheaper

    • Sniatch@feddit.orgEnglish
      82·
      10 days ago

      Germany does not need reactors to be independent. Where did you get this weird information from.

      • xmunk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        152·
        9 days ago

        From Swedes that are paying noticeably higher energy prices because the German grid went from a net exporter to a mixed grid that can have a surplus when winds are high but usually needs to burn gas that’s imported indirectly from Russia when it’s low driving up energy prices in nearby regions.

        Germans love to talk about how they never needed Nuclear power and there seems to be an irrational hatred of an incredibly clean form of power but it’s clearly a problem:

        https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/swedish-minister-open-to-new-measures-to-tackle-energy-crisis-blames-german-nuclear-phase-out/

        • Sniatch@feddit.orgEnglish
          31·
          9 days ago

          Sounds like sweden is just pushing the blame to germany. Populism at its finest

        • FooBarrington@lemmy.worldEnglish
          42·
          9 days ago

          It’s not hatred, it’s fear. Many Germans lived through the fallout of Chernobyl. You might still say it’s irrational, but it’s not “hatred” and it’s not unfounded.

          I don’t get this weird obsession with labelling everything “hate”, even if it’s driven by other simple emotions.