A gas compressor unit needed to fix this problem is being overhauled in Canada,but because of sanctions Siemens are unable to deliver it.An exemption from sanctions may be needed.
https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/nord-stream-1-bundesregierung-bemueht-sich-um-auslieferung-von-festhaengender-turbine-a-1cf26e6c-3a70-447e-b39d-43e014f9f590
The Wanderer returned after 3 1/2 weeks & phoned me last weekend. He also beat his postcard home LOL!
Germany is dancing a tight rope - they need to keep Russian deliveries to fill their seasonal gas storage facilities
Well, Ireland doesn’t exactly have a strong Defense industry, so I think Ireland can get a pass here. I think Ireland is better off acting as a logistics base, stopover for supply flights and a place where Ukrainian soldiers can recover and maybe train. If Ireland had two major naval shipyards (ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, Kiel & Hamburg; Lürssen, Bremen), three major military aircraft manufacturers (Eurofighter GmbH, Manching, Eurocopter, Donauwörth, Airbus, multiple sites), a leading manufacturer of tanks and armoured fighting vehicles (Rheinmetall Defence, multiple sites), a number of manufacturers of missiles (RUAG Defence, MBDA), one of THE leading firearms manufacturers worldwide in the shape of Heckler & Koch, as well as a sizeable standing army, things might be different.
The problem is that Germany isn’t just refusing to send any more stuff from the depots of the Bundeswehr, something that I would actually agree with to an extent, given the poor state of the German armed forces, but also blocking exports from these Defense companies who would be willing to deliver equipment they’re either manufacturing or have in their warehouses, as well as blocking the transfer of German-built equipment from Spain, as was the case just recently with Leopard 2A4 tanks that Spain wanted to deliver to Ukraine.
Russia can't turn the gas off. They go bankrupt overnight if they do. War over, economy tanked, mass unemployment, social unrest. To think they just shut off the tap on their only source of revenue is pure fantasy. So if Scholz thinks that will happen he's an absolute idiot.
I think Scholz has a good understanding of economics and knows what will happen if the gas is turned off
I think, given the **** show that Scholz has presided over, it's hard to imagine he hasn't been compromised by Russia. He's making a laughing stock of Germany, tearing European solidarity apart and reneging on all his NATO obligations. Putin himself hasn't done as much damage to those 3 entities in 20yrs than Scholz has done in 4 months.
You do know Ireland have contributed zero military equipment?
That’s putting it mildly! I’ll be glad when I have my new passport and ID card so I don’t have to deal with that shirt show of a country for a while. What’s worse, Scholz isn’t just a disgrace and a liability on the international stage, he and his lot, particularly, it has to be said, the SPD ministers, are a complete train wreck on the domestic front as well.
At the risk of leading this thread aside with my rant, Scholz’s government announced the famous “9 Euro Ticket”, a travel pass that lets you travel throughout Germany on local trains and other forms of public transport for a period of several months, all for just 9€! A great initiative and highly successful, yet the minister for transport just announced that this initiative will be stopped at the end of summer despite its success! Germany’s broadband internet expansion campaign has been glacial and unambitious compared to Ireland’s national broadband plan and after criticising the Merkel government for years, the plan that Scholz and his lot agreed on contains bandwidths that would make any minister for communications here in Ireland hang their head in shame! Meanwhile, the government spent 3 billion Euros on a gas discount campaign whose effect had evaporated even before the law had been signed as fuel companies had raised their prices to account for that discount, basically washing those 3 billion straight into their coffers. Healthcare workers are leaving in droves due to horrendous working conditions and atrocious pay in the medical sector, however instead of doing something to raise pay levels, the government is thinking about reinstating mandatory civil service to force young people into the healthcare & care services sectors!
No matter how you slice it, the performance of the Scholz government in the short time since it took office is simply disastrous, to the point where I wonder whether Scholz is TRYING to get himself voted out, or worse. I mean, he’s already effectively destroyed the Social Democratic Party in Germany!
6) Putin has died, so the next to the throne decided to get rid of the most dangerous contender
Stupid question.
Whats to stop Russia just imagining up money in a Russian bank to be able to trade??
They really are an embarrassment at this stage.
Deutschland verrecke! 🤮🤮
Have scholtz gone full pacifist or is he in to deep in Russias and Chinas pocket
Anything is better than Russia at the moment,and there are many options in the middle east besides Saudi Arabia.
Even in Europe,like Norway
I hope it's not like the Irish taxi apps.. "no artillery available in your area" or "your artillery had to cancel".
Makes for a nice headline. But it's all gross numbers with no costs.
Also what price do you put on 30k dead soldiers and being a pariah state?
Anyway Biden is heading to Saudi to "recalibrate relations".
The cheap oil will start flowing again soon.
I listened to it. Was interesting but the poster did not describe it properly there (imo) for whatever reason.
It was more about fact that the US (military/intelligence etc.) may have less visibility about what exactly is going on because (unlike wars such Iraq or Afghanistan) the US is not directly fighting itself in Ukraine even though it is providing vast levels of support.
Ukraine won't tell them everything and has good reasons for this in fairness and is of course engaged in a propaganda war where it wants to manage perceptions to convince the US to keep supporting it. The point was made that sometimes the US may not even really want to know everything e.g. how intelligence it gives Ukraine that it cannot obtain for itself may be put to use in operations to attack and destroy Russian "assets".
Also the amount of information and data flowing out of the war from satellite imagery, mapping, photographs, video, social media postings etc etc. (alot of which is linked on here) may make people think they have a better handle on or picture of exactly what is happening than they really do.
So you think Ukraine should account for every dollar spent in western media, freely available to Russia? I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn in time that much of the facts and figures surrounding weaponry and funds provided to Ukraine will be shown to have been full of misinformation. Nothing to gain with too much openness either from Ukrainian military or their western benefactors.
Hardly. The world and it's mother know where all the arms are going. Or are you honestly suggesting that the Ukrainians are taking money and using it to buy villas in the sun? Or maybe selling howitzers and ammo to pay for high end hookers?
FFS!
Here's a rumour I want to be true🤞and a dream last night foretold this.
"Information came from Russia that the president of the aggressor country, Vladimir Putin, allegedly fell into a coma after the operation. The dictator had a cancerous tumor, the removal of which could cause serious consequences for his healt
OBOZREVATEL learned about this from intelligence sources. Now the president is allegedly in intensive care, where his life is supported with the help of artificial life support systems.
According to reports, Putin showed all the signs of inhibition of brainstem reflexes, his body does not respond to pain."
https://news.obozrevatel.com/ukr/russia/dzherela-u-rozvidtsi-putin-vpav-u-komu-pislya-nevdaloi-operatsii-u-kremli-terminovo-rozroblyayut-stsenarij-peredachi-vladi.htm
They graduated from covid school.
Canada and US. Norway (?)
At least they are all democracies.
Most of the countries with lots of oil or gas are horrible (partly because of the oil and gas + the corruption it generates and/or the energy that is wasted on in-fighting over the almost effort-free bonanza from it).
how come every gobshite on social media comments is an expert on the minsk agreement :)
Is there really anywhere ethical to get oil though. Saudis are as bad as the Russians. We shouldn’t be taking oil from the Middle East either. That would leave us with very limited options.
Ukrainian propaganda warning to Russia
Dont come to Ukraine
Thats because of the high oil price at the moment,Russia only invades others when the oil price is high,like it was in 2008 when invading Georgia and 2014 when invading Crimea.
Still Europe needs to cut their supply from Russia completely,or else it wont have any effect
Russian army shelled Trudolyubivka, Tokareve, Bashtanka, Kvitneve, Luch, Tavriyske and Oleksandrivka at Pivdenny Buh, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine says in the evening report
I included that with option 2, that's what the mental health sentence at the end of that section referred to.
5) Putin knows he’s expiring and DOESNT want Navalny to take over, and has him disappeared l.
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