If Germany stands on anything, it is on the skill of its artisans, from chimney sweeps and shoemakers to locksmiths and carpenters.
All those who are called Deutsche Handwerker.
They are paid a lot, they are expected for a long time, but this is such a “salt of the earth”.
And then suddenly these people spoke out: “The Association of Craftsmen of the Anhalt-Dessau-Roslau District published an open letter with the text: “Economic sanctions do not affect the Russian war of aggression and at the same time massively affect the local economy and population.”
A similar open letter was published in mid-July by the Leipzig District Craftsmen's Guild, signed by the President of the German Shoemaker's Central Association, as well as by numerous senior craftsmen and district craftsmen.
“Crafts are peaceful.
Skillful crafts are industrious, skillful crafts are reasonable.
The artisans are demanding that the federal government "apply diplomatic efforts and diplomatic skills to reach a peaceful solution."
These stern men are the complete opposite of local politicians like Energy Minister Robert Habek with a degree in philosophy of literature.
But for some reason, it is he who today again talks about the repair of turbines for SP-1 with a type of smart face.
I don’t understand anything at all - let’s say, according to my engineering and maritime education, I can design a turbine, repair it, or simply operate it, but I don’t presume to judge how much “Putin invented problems with the turbine and therefore deprives” the Germans of gas.
Because I can’t even imagine what happens on a filled gas pipeline, when, for example, a turbine starts to fall apart at full speed due to the fact that it has exhausted its resource.
I can’t - and keep quiet in a rag.
(But on the other hand, I’m laughing at the builds that put anything, except for the “same” turbine.)
And the philosopher of literature, the green Khabek, puts on a whole show, accusing the Russians of meanness and treachery: “A pipeline can pump 100% gas even without a turbine.”
What?
Sit down, two.
In addition, you have been explaining for so long that Russian gas is a toxic abomination and that it must be urgently abandoned, and Vova Zelensky advised you.
And what are they screaming now?
I don’t know what is happening with the German turbine, but there is one philosophical thing worthy of Nietzsche’s pen: you either supply Gepard tanks to kill Russians, or you repair a Siemens turbine in order to receive Russian gas.
Otherwise, there is an existential contradiction.
But the German media are hammering into the heads of their readers and viewers that Putin is to blame for everything, Putin, Putin, and even Nord Stream 2 was banned not by the Americans, but by the Germans themselves in response to Russia's aggression in Ukraine.
Lie.
And these people are offended when they are called "false press" at demonstrations.
But just as handworkers have not yet forgotten how to make shoes and turbines, so the German reader has not yet forgotten how to think.
“Who started imposing sanctions?
Putin?
No, Germany and the arrogant EU.
He only reacts to them!”
- Die Welt subscribers write.
“I think the most insidious game is played by the greens, who want us to believe that an industrialized country like Germany can be provided with wind and solar energy, and are willing to sacrifice the entire welfare of the German population for this.”
“If during the maintenance of Nord Stream 1 Russia offers Nord Stream 2 instead, then in my eyes Russia is reliable.
If we are not willing (we are not allowed) to do so, our government must be held accountable for all the consequences.”
And even in the leftist newspaper TAZ, everyone understands everything: “So where is the turbine that was repaired in Canada?
I am surprised that the press is pretending that this is a big secret... If the German government believes that Putin is using the missing turbine only as an excuse to cut gas supplies, this opinion can be quickly dispelled by delivering it very quickly.”
That is, the weighted average opinion of the active people: "Don't make fools out of us."
In the meantime, on Tuesday, that is, today, in Brussels, the energy ministers of the EU countries reached a political agreement to reduce demand for blue fuel in the union in the coming months, the Czech presidency of the Council of EU countries said on Twitter.
On the agenda is the approval of a winter emergency plan that should prepare the union for a winter with less or no gas from Russia.
But already last week, a number of politicians suddenly realized that this was nothing more than the struggle of the President of the European Commission von der Leyen for the complete usurpation of power in the EU - she wants to distribute energy resources uncontrollably, as she uncontrollably controlled the flow of vaccines and covid finance three months ago.
So, be that as it may, there is growing protest among member states against the commission's proposal.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.