No daydreaming about the energy embargo - a deep economic crisis would threaten

Created: 03/14/2022, 14:14

By: Christian Deutschländer

Germany must wean itself from the Russian gas drug, comments Christian Deutschländer.

© Mikhail Klimentyev/Pool Sputnik Kremlin/AP/dpa

The immediate exit from the Russian guest sounds tempting.

But daydreaming is not necessary, comments Christian Deutschländer.

Wars start quickly, they are tough to end.

Unfortunately, this also applies to the slaughter that the Kremlin's offensive warrior and child murderer began in the Ukraine conflict.

If the West wants to limit the collateral damage in Europe to some extent, it has neither a military nor an economic means of stopping Vladimir Putin immediately.

This is (hopefully) clear to everyone involved before NATO intervenes.

Ukraine war: No daydreaming about the energy embargo - a deep economic crisis would threaten

The situation with the energy boycott is just as delicate.

As tempting as the immediate exit from Russian gas, oil and coal sounds, the consequences would be fatal.

The West has made itself dependent on imports.

Incidentally, Bavaria in particular, it depends half of its imports on Putin's drip, twice as much as the rest of the republic.

No daydreaming please, we just need to put on a warmer sweater and turn down the heat.

Nonsense: Energy bottlenecks would result in rationing for companies, a deep economic crisis, the end of industrial regions and within weeks hundreds of thousands of unemployed.

The exploding energy prices would drive families, pensioners and commuters into existential difficulties.

Would we endure these upheavals in the country, severe losses in our prosperity, longer than Putin?

Vladimir Putin's natural gas and the Ukraine war: we have to cut back

As cynical as it is: We are only gradually moving away from the drug Russian gas and have to cut back.

If things go well, there is a window of opportunity until winter.

Tasks: curb consumption, reactivate nuclear power, strengthen renewables, expand terminals for shipments of liquefied natural gas from the USA and the Gulf region.

This will also cause great damage to our own economy, but it is at least the beginning of a sustainable concept.

For Putin, that would be much more painful than a quick but not long-term ban on imports.

Christian Deutschlaender