An aid package designed to stop Putin and his henchmen on Germany's streets

Created: 09/05/2022 05:06

By: Georg Anastasiadis

A comment by Georg Anastasiadis (montage) © Lisi Niesner/Reuters/Pool/dpa/MM

The Kremlin is waging war against the West with increasing uninhibitedness.

The killing of a CSD activist in Münster is also the poisonous fruit of Putin's agitation.

The traffic light government wants to stop him with a 65 billion relief package.

A commentary by Georg Anastasiadis.

"An avalanche is rolling towards our country," said Green Party leader Omid Nouripour, quoting FDP leader Lindner, on Sunday at the presentation of the federal government's third energy relief package.

The 65 billion aid package of the traffic light coalition is quite massive, even if it includes some long-known reliefs and only 32 billion come directly from the budget – others should pay for the rest, such as the electricity price brake.

The nevertheless stately size gives an idea of ​​how great the concern is about a "hot autumn" in Germany.

Rightly so.

Because the Kremlin is always waging uninhibited war against the citizens of Europe, trying to divide the people and turn them against their governments.

Years of Kremel baiting: Putin is also responsible for the death of a CSD activist

Putinian fascism is attacking the liberal democracies on three fronts: militarily in Ukraine, energy-politically with the gas weapon and culturally by planting seeds of hatred in people's hearts.

The horrific killing of a young CSD demonstrator in Münster by a rejected Russian asylum seeker is also the result of years of Kremlin agitation against the alleged decadence of the West with its minorities, which Moscow denies as much as the Ukraine's right to exist.

The Left Party and AfD should think twice about whether they want to dance with the devil and become henchmen of the murderous Kremlin regime at Monday demonstrations.

Europe's gas tanks are filling up – Putin's power is dwindling

Putin's clique despises the West's supposedly weak democracies, but the course of the war holds some unpleasant lessons for the aggressor.

Things are still not going according to plan in Ukraine.

And the gas weapon is also becoming increasingly blunt.

Europe's gas tanks are filling up.

A year ago, Germany received up to 60 percent of its gas imports from Russia, but this share has recently shrunk to 9.5 percent.

The fact that Putin has now decided to stop deliveries altogether shows that he wants to seize this last opportunity to damage Europe.

But his power to freeze people and shut down businesses is waning.

Atom runtime extension instead of electricity price brake

It is good that the traffic light government is now contesting Putin's power over our streets by relieving the burden on the citizens.

There is still plenty of room for improvement, however.

In particular, the companies that are also acutely endangered are left empty-handed.

Extending the term of nuclear power would be much better than the planned, highly complicated and immature regulation of the electricity market, including a price brake and skimming off profits.

Because a larger supply of electricity automatically lowers prices and would be the most effective and economically best measure to relieve the burdened citizens and companies.

It would be disastrous if the traffic lights risked the next nonsense after the nonsense about the gas surcharge.