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  • Ich glaube das Wichtigste ist es erstmal überhaupt anzugreifen. Nicht mit einem hoch wissenschaftlichen Buch, sondern ganz klar in der Länge eines Slogans. Wenn sich “linke” Parteien wie die SPD oder Grünen nicht offen trauen für die Vermögenssteuer zu stehen gehen sie halt unter. Die Partei Linke kann nicht klar argumentieren, wenn alle durcheinander schreien. Man muss sich schon auf ein paar klare Forderungen einigen können.

    Gerade gibt es ein großes Verlangen nach Wandel und da kann und muss die Politik liefern. Allerdings geht es halt nicht wenn Scholz die Schuldenbremse am liebsten heiraten will und die Grünen sozialen Wandel dem Klimaschutz unterordnen. Gut die Grünen machen wenigstens das vernünftig und sogar effektiv. Das Klimageld, hilfe für den Heizungstausch und ähnliches um die Energiewende abzufedern kriegen sie aber auch nicht hin. Liegt natürlich auch an Scholz.

    Ganz beschämend waren die anti AFD Proteste. Da gibt es in Deutschland die größten Proteste seit Jahren und die Politik hört nur “Ausländer RAUS!!!” der AFD. Vorallem da es doch eine linke Regierung sein will.








  • Monitoring them anywhere in the schengen is easier than monitoring them at specific and significantly smaller subset of anywhere (at the borders)?

    Yes! How do you know they are crossing a border in Schengen? There are not permanent border checkpoints and few border patrols. So you have to be lucky to catch them in a random patrol. So you either have to know their locations at all times, hence monitor them anywhere, or you need to reintroduce border checkpoints all across the Schengen Area, which means staffing thousands of km of borders and monitoring the rest of the borders for illegal crossings as well. Obviously that destroys the entire advantage of Schengen in the first place.

    That would be optimal. However if someone objects to solution of lesser intensity, then this optimal one is not likely to succeed, is it?

    Germany expelled so many embassy staff that Russia shut down 4 out of 5 consulats. Italy also kicked out a bunch of diplomatic staff.



  • Even that peace deal, would be a massive loss for Putin. Before the full scale invasion he controlled Crimea and large parts of Donetzk and Luhansk. He would loose that. Further more he lost a lot of men in the fighting. According to Ukraine it is over half a million casulties already. Lots of Russians also left the country to avoid fighting. That is not to mention the losses of huge parts of the old Soviet stockpiles. Then he lost most of the national wealth fund. In terms of natural gas exports the EU has most of those covered without Russian gas already. Those are long term contracts, so Russia will only be able to take back part of what they lost. All of that in a shrinking market thanks to new policy within the EU to try to save gas. Cutting military spending, means a lot of Russians loose well paying jobs, which is going to tank the economy.

    In other words, that peace deal would be a massive strategic loss. It might not be fair, but it would save Ukranian lifes and might very well save more money in damages, then Russia can pay in reparations.





  • It also means that there are no gas and oil production firms with an HQ in Germany. The rest of Wintershall DEA holding the Russian assets is mainly used to get insurance money, as Putin stole all those assets. So they might get the money back, but probably not the assets.

    That puts Germany in an intressting position. Being the 9th largest oil consumer and 8th largest gas consumer certainly makes Germany dependent on other countries, but that should change. So bigger and better lobbying against climate change from what is now the third largest economy in the world.