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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Germany should probably look back in their history to see how well appeasement works with tyrants...
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True. Of course, Russia was already appeased twice recently with the occupation and annexations of parts of Georgia and Crimea. When you have nuclear weapons, it is easy for others to appease you.
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Originally Posted by Azure
Most of Canada's electricity is produced in country. We do import oil & perhaps even gas for other needs, but despite the morons running our country we still manage our own energy for the most part.
In comparison, Germany has completely shuttered their energy development, and is very dependent on Russia right now. I'm sure that has absolutely nothing to do with why Russia is being so aggressive right now, right?
Russia has leverage over Europe right now, and they are using it.
Its almost as if those idiots running the German government are being paid by Russia to shut down their nuclear programs.
France on the other hand is being a lot more aggressive against Russia. I wonder why that is. Might have something to do with the fact that France gets 80% of their electricity from in country nuclear sources.
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I don't know if this is just lip service, but since the end of WW2, one of the philosophies practiced in German politics is to create symbiotic economic relationships with historical adversaries to make it too economically painful and a deterrent to engaging in major wars in the future.
Having said that, I don't know enough about German-Russian trade and economic relations to know if Russia stands anything to lose, which would make the whole practice fail. Maybe not having them as a customer would hurt I guess.
The same philosophy was applied in other parts of the world, including the Balkans.