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Buster15 said:
By whom?
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China looks like the most likely culprit right now. I think the Danes (might be Norway or Sweden) have stopped a Chinese cargo ship in the area and are investigating the ship. It was close to the cables at that time and apparently moved in suspicious ways.
 
HTG said:
China looks like the most likely culprit right now. I think the Danes (might be Norway or Sweden) have stopped a Chinese cargo ship in the area and are investigating the ship. It was close to the cables at that time and apparently moved in suspicious ways.
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Very interesting. Thank you.
 
Buster15 said:
Very interesting. Thank you.
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Doesn’t have to mean much, though. In the Nordstream case, everyone was happy to blame Russia and it later turned out that it has most likely been an operation by Ukraine and Poland. So who knows?
 
VorZakone said:
Thoughts on Merkels legacy?

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She has been a disaster and this confirms it pretty much. Had a good time due to reforms Schröder made (and which cost him the election), but pretty much froze the country. Worst thing is her mantra of "no alternatives" to her decision which pretty much squeezed any political discussion out of the mainstream. A dangerous sentiment of "disapproval = extremism" was the result and leads to the rise of AfD and BSW - if every other valid opinion is labeled extremism, voting for extremists becomes acceptable for a lot of people as the "extremism" label (and it's variants - "everything is Nazi" is a pretty common saying amongst many people I know) lost any meaning.
 
VorZakone said:
Thoughts on Merkels legacy?

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Disastrous. Austerity has fecked our infrastructure and education, creating immense damage to our economy. She destroyed a thriving renewable energies sector to appease the fossil fuel industry, only to start investing in renewables later, after our industry either went broke or was bought by China.
I applaud her for accepting so many refugees, but that’s pointless, because we failed to provide them with a perspective, leading to huge issues regarding integration.
Her politics in regards to Russia is nothing short of cowardice and a refusal to accept reality.

She can go rot in hell.
 
HTG said:
Disastrous. Austerity has fecked our infrastructure and education, creating immense damage to our economy. She destroyed a thriving renewable energies sector to appease the fossil fuel industry, only to start investing in renewables later, after our industry either went broke or was bought by China.
I applaud her for accepting so many refugees, but that’s pointless, because we failed to provide them with a perspective, leading to huge issues regarding integration.
Her politics in regards to Russia is nothing short of cowardice and a refusal to accept reality.

She can go rot in hell.
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This is very interesting.
Having spent some time working with a German defence equipment supplier in the 80s and 90s, one thing I was always most impressed with was the way they thought long term about things.

So to read about the way short term policies have adversely affected the German economy is something of a surprise.
 
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