Reducing the amount of natural gas delivered from Russia to Germany means that Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched an attack on Germany, German Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister Robert Habeck said on Tuesday in Berlin.
The politician of the Greens said at the annual meeting of the Association of German Industrial Companies (BDI) that Vladimir Putin launched a war against Ukraine because the Russian "dictatorial regime" assesses Ukraine's striving for freedom as a threat.
Germany, together with the population and businesses, including the industrial companies supporting the sanctions against Russia, has been in solidarity with Ukraine so far, and thanks to everyone for that. However, reducing the amount of natural gas transported via the Nord Stream-1 pipeline, which directly connects Russia to Germany, is a "new dimension". The curbing of gas exports is an "economic attack against us", against Germany, stated Robert Habeck.
Vladimir Putin showed that he consciously uses energy as a weapon with his speech in St. Petersburg the other day, which he delivered in the language of "Orwellian neo-speech" and set war as peace and arbitrariness and dictatorship as a desirable social model.
Its attack on Germany fits into a "pattern" of gas export-cutting operations against Poland, Bulgaria and Denmark, the German vice chancellor said.
Source: MTI
2022 plus:
In the past few days, the EC has published an indignant statement, saying that Russia is using energy exports as blackmail. We are now at the point where the German political leadership evaluates the gas reduction as an attack on Germany. In vain, as expected, the problems start, instead of washing, it is not about airing clothes, but about reducing the comfort zone of the voters, because there will not be enough gas. Maybe we shouldn't gloat after the fact, but think ahead. Realistically, the first question should be asked: Who started the energy blackmail?
Opening image: MTI/EPA/Pool/DPA/Roberto Pfeil
