The point regarding the nuclear plants is kinda misleading:
Yes, it was done opportuinistically. But the plants were also old as fuck. This would’ve been much less of a problem had multiple german governments not ensured that the infrastructure for getting the electricity generated in the north to the industrial south to be a total mess.
The pivot to russian gas was a good idea, but to keep it going a backbone to stand up to the US would have been necessary. No such backbone exists in german govenrments anymore, which is why the US can blow up vital german infrastructure without any sort of backlash.
Why were no new nuclear plants being built or commissioned in all those decades? The alliance of the anti-nuclear left and the fossile fuel right. The radlib Greens were the one to do the final blow so you can’t deny their involvement, traitorous NATOite idealists jumped off the cliff to their own end because they trusted in fossil fuels
Well they built them at some point originally, because they had to compete with the USSR on an economic level and had Marshall Plan investments, which meant high levels of cheap energy were required.
Now that’s no longer needed and Europe has been harvested by capital. Deindustrialized, copper stripped from the walls, financialized, etc.
I think everyone here can agree that the fossil fuel right is an evil demonic force, but many here may hold more charitable positions on the anti-nuclear crunchy hippy left. They have done their part here
The point regarding the nuclear plants is kinda misleading:
Yes, it was done opportuinistically. But the plants were also old as fuck. This would’ve been much less of a problem had multiple german governments not ensured that the infrastructure for getting the electricity generated in the north to the industrial south to be a total mess.
The pivot to russian gas was a good idea, but to keep it going a backbone to stand up to the US would have been necessary. No such backbone exists in german govenrments anymore, which is why the US can blow up vital german infrastructure without any sort of backlash.
Why were no new nuclear plants being built or commissioned in all those decades? The alliance of the anti-nuclear left and the fossile fuel right. The radlib Greens were the one to do the final blow so you can’t deny their involvement, traitorous NATOite idealists jumped off the cliff to their own end because they trusted in fossil fuels
That and the complete lack of long term planning coupled with the fanatical adherence to the free market.
Well they built them at some point originally, because they had to compete with the USSR on an economic level and had Marshall Plan investments, which meant high levels of cheap energy were required.
Now that’s no longer needed and Europe has been harvested by capital. Deindustrialized, copper stripped from the walls, financialized, etc.
I think everyone here can agree that the fossil fuel right is an evil demonic force, but many here may hold more charitable positions on the anti-nuclear crunchy hippy left. They have done their part here