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.
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.
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
Germany does not need reactors to be independent. Where did you get this weird information from.
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/
Sounds like sweden is just pushing the blame to germany. Populism at its finest
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.
It’s very unfounded and stupid.
Nuclear plants are all over the world, with much better designs.
No, it’s objectively not unfounded. Again, you might call it irrational, but that’s not the same thing.
Arguing about Chernobyl is about the dumbest thing to do.
It was very old reactor, no other like that is in Germany, therefore it’s unfounded.
So what you’re saying is that no German reactor would ever be online for years while its backup power supply, critical for safety, was offline? Because yes that happened. Or that this is a proper way to store nuclear waste? Because that happened, too. Just as the water incursions into that salt mine.
Long story short humans can’t be trusted with this shit. If you think we can, you’re naive.
No, fear doesn’t work like that. Just because something is unlikely doesn’t mean it can’t happen, and fear tends to be about just those things.
Again, you can call it irrational, but it is objectively not unfounded. There is a foundation, even if it’s unlikely. You don’t get to change the meaning of the word “unfounded” just because you think something isn’t likely to happen.
Again, there aren’t those reactors in service. End of story.
Coal puts out more radioactivity into air, yet nobody mentions that. So fuck this ‘founded’ fear. It’s not real.
We don’t need to. But nice try. 😘