The German government, dominated by the Greens, is using the war in Ukraine to ecologically rebuild society and expand state control of the economy. Faithfully following Churchill's saying: Don't leave any crisis unexploited!
The other day, Robert Habeck, Minister of Economy and Climate Affairs of the Green Party, pleased the large camp of his - mainly female - admirers by saying on the evening news of the state TV:
recently he has been taking shorter showers, of course with the aim of saving energy.
With this, the minister wanted to prove that he is at the forefront of today's socialist labor competition, that is, energy saving, with a personal example.
Those who give something to themselves in the state's green propaganda machine come up with new ideas almost every day about what else the citizens could give up, of course in the spirit of solidarity. One degree less heating: 5 percent savings! Freeing the shower head from limescale: one more percent!
The fact that state bodies are already negotiating with district heating providers and large home-owning companies to reduce the room temperature between 20 and 22 degrees in winter to 16 degrees, was only a topic in the system media for a short time, and then it disappeared completely.
Of course, the energy saving propagated by the government is about as effective as the socialist job competition was at the time: It does nothing to fight impoverishment, it is only meant to deflect responsibility from the causers of the problem.
And the trouble is clearly caused by the determination of the climate-fighting green elite to disconnect the entire economy of the once strongest European industrial state from both nuclear energy and fossil energy carriers.
This responsibility is independent of party affiliation: the standard-bearer of the Greens' ideology was the former conservative-liberal CDU president, Angela Merkel, who decided that Germany once again has a mission in the world: it must become a vanguard of the climate movement.
From the beginning, the basis of vanguardism was the relatively cheap Russian gas. Just a year ago, the plan was to build 50 new, "climate-friendly" gas power plants for a "transitional period", until the utopia of a full transition to renewable energies is fully realized, to replace - naturally, in addition to solar panels and windmills - the ones that have been switched off in the meantime nuclear and coal power plants. All the proponents of this plan naturally assumed that cheap Russian gas would continue to flow to Germany without any problems.
Who would be ready to invest billions in gas power plants planned for a "transitional period", this question did not interest the dedicated people.
Because of this plan, Merkel insisted on Nord Stream 2 until her nails broke, and therefore she tried to make a mockery of US President Trump's warning that Russian gas deliveries could lead to dangerous dependence. Although Putin deeply despised Merkel, she delivered reliably. On this issue, all German parties stood behind Merkel as one person.
Gerhard Schröder, former Social Democrat chancellor, resigned his candidacy for Gazprom's supervisory board only in May of this year.
Initially, despite the war in Ukraine, Russian gas deliveries continued to flow reliably, and the leader of the Green Party, Robert Habeck, who in the meantime had advanced to the position of Minister of Economy and Climate Protection, began to flood the public, which was becoming increasingly restless due to the possible embargo, with optimistic forecasts. We will be independent of Russian gas by next winter, he said a few weeks ago. Back then, Qatar was still the big hope - which was dashed almost immediately.
Then the American liquefied gas shipments were supposed to save the country, but feeding them into the existing pipelines requires serious and time-consuming solutions, which will by no means be ready until next winter, apart from the fact that Germany does not have a liquefied gas terminal - thanks to the green climate warriors.
But in the meantime, it seems likely that oil and gas exports will be banned sooner or later in America due to soaring domestic oil and gas prices.
A gas shortage caused consciously or irresponsibly will benefit the green climate fighters
It is now being shown that the energy revolution is a decadent utopia of a once rich country, which leads to shortages and impoverishment as a result of the first serious economic-political conflict. The Ukrainian war did not cause this consequence of the energy revolution, but only accelerated its onset. What the Greens might have secretly hoped for has now happened. They demanded the destruction of Russia with embargoes until the Russians could think: Do you want an embargo? Then you will get it. For a good week now, only 40 percent of the gas deliveries so far are coming on the North Stream 1 pipeline, allegedly due to maintenance work.
"Putin is using gas as a weapon," lamented Habeck on state television the other day, as if his government hadn't been threatening to use the exact same weapon for months.
The gas tanks are barely 50 percent full, which would be enough for two and a half months in the event of a complete shutdown.
Now is the time to understand that threatening an embargo is like announcing a hunger strike: in the end, the striker will definitely die.
For weeks now, the political leadership has been able to experience what banning the import of energy carriers from Russia will lead to: only the rapid increase in the price of oil and the revenues of the Russian state, and of course the acceleration of Western inflation at the same rate. But wasn't the goal of the energy revolution a radical reduction of energy consumption? Isn't the perfect opportunity to achieve this right now?
In the meantime, we are experiencing the renaissance of coal power plants, shale gas, if it is produced by Americans, is no longer a problem - in these areas, the climate battle is paused, in fact, it turns into its opposite. However, the further operation of climate-neutral nuclear power plants is still taboo for Habeck and the green elite and will probably remain so. The extraction of shale gas in Germany also, although the country has large reserves, but even its exploration was banned under Merkel.
Instead of working on the aforementioned rational solutions, the government announced the era of deprivation: let's expect four or five miserable years, Free Democrat Finance Minister Christian Lindner warned the other day without any sympathy, as if this were some kind of fateful legality that we should endure with patience.
Crazy talk: but there is a system to it
Many foreign observers, as well as many German citizens shocked by the absurdities of politics, tend to consider the German political elite to be a congregation of dangerous lunatics. But with a few glaring exceptions, this is not true. "Mad talk: but there is a system in it," we could say, quoting Hamlet.
Despite their slogans and creeds, the Greens are absolutely not interested in carbon dioxide emissions, nor are they in nature conservation, and in fact, they are waging an unprecedented campaign against nature, plants and animals. They don't care about human rights or even women's equality, and they especially don't care about human suffering. They have no interest in what they proclaim to be a noble cause.
A climate-neutral paradise as a utopia is only a means to achieve the real goal, which is nothing but the total control of the economy, society, individual lifestyles, total control, that is, the total construction and seizure of state power.
And nothing is more suitable for this than a good little crisis.
Could it be imagined, then, that the greens, intoxicated by war enthusiasm ("Ukraine is fighting for freedom and democracy, for European values") are among the bloodiest demanders of sanctions against Russia precisely because of the state of emergency? Your correspondent is inclined to this opinion.
What seems like irresponsibility, even madness, is a conscious policy. Habeck and his colleagues are already using the war as an argument for the economic and political restructuring of the country. The recently announced gas state of emergency is the first step in the introduction of the state planned economy in the energy economy, the first stage of the social state of emergency. That's why it's okay if the energy revolution turns into a disaster, it was actually planned that way, the war only accelerated the process. The emergency is the state's big moment.
Scarcity forces central distribution. It is not the demand, but the limited supply that determines who can use what, and whoever regulates this is the holder of absolute power.
Back in 2019, the Environmental Expert Council appointed by the German government and providing it with advice, abbreviated as the Environmental Council, published a study entitled "Ecologically bounded democratic governance - on the legitimacy of environmental policy". The authors come .
Even the title of the study says a lot: Democratic decisions reach their limits where ecology begins.
The study is accordingly a detailed plan of totalitarianism based on ecology. The interests of the common good must be asserted against particular interests, and all political-economic decisions must be subordinated to ecology. And this can happen by monitoring all "material flows from their removal from the environment to their disposal". Based on the list of material flows, the state will be able to control these flows more efficiently, that is, to determine distribution and consumption without gaps. Ecological commissars appointed in factories and offices would take care of ideological leadership, ecological councils under the jurisdiction of each ministry would check whether ecological regulations are being implemented. In the plan outlined here, all the institutions of the rule of law would be subordinated to the ideology of ecology, which the authors call a "necessary change process".
Habeck demonstrated exactly what they mean by this the other day with the new "Wind on land" law. The draft cancels the municipalities' right to have a say, invalidates the existing rules of nature and environmental protection in order to be able to set up wind energy generators everywhere, in settlements and nature conservation areas.
The deliberately induced energy shortage and the consequences of the war in Ukraine are all just an excuse to introduce climate dictatorship - and the new law is just the beginning.
No one can claim that the Greens (and with them the entire Green party spectrum) did not say in advance what they were planning. If the war in Ukraine lasts long enough, they will have the opportunity to try the state of emergency, with its unforeseeable consequences for all of Europe. So far, it looks like no one is going to stop them.
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