What Robert Habeck has now announced about nuclear power is nothing more than what the "stress test" recommended weeks ago.

The fact that he now has to catch up on what was inevitable may also be due to the worsening situation in France's electricity supply.

The real reason, however, is the technical difficulties of the operators, who cannot organize their drafting operations according to party political criteria.

In other words: If Habeck had continued to insist that the power plants had to dance to his political whistle, the operators could no longer have guaranteed anything.

Even the Greens in Lower Saxony will see that their political draft horse would have become a stubborn donkey in the emergency situation that Germany is currently in.

The Greens, above all the elders, were only able to save their founding myth on this issue, but not their self-image of the government-capable and progressive energy specialists.

No new fuel rods

It may be that after pacifism has been sacrificed and coal has been rehabilitated, it is asking too much to let the anti-nuclear sun set.

However, it was always a symbol of the presumption of the Greens.

As if the world revolves around them.

At some point they will have to accept that this is not the case.

It's a good moment for that.

So that the Greens do not lose their faith, it is now being emphasized everywhere that Habeck's announcement is not about an extension of the term.

That's right.

It is about recycling the fuel rods to the point of no longer being used, there are no new ones.

This form of extension is therefore not an exit from the exit.

However, the question will arise as to what exactly is to be voted on in the Bundestag this autumn.

Because the exit provided for all three nuclear power plants that are still at stake to go off the grid forever on December 31st.

Smoke candles and deceptions

The debate over the past few weeks was a phase-out of a different kind. All arguments against continued operation have vanished into thin air: It is not true that nuclear power cannot provide a significant substitute for gas power production.

It is not true that there are no more scrupulous security checks.

It is not true that nuclear power plants cannot be used to cover peak loads.

It is not true that the question of final storage will be unsolvable, even with new fuel rods it is not true.

It is not true that nuclear power is so expensive that the price of electricity cannot be reduced.

Above all, it is not true that nuclear power cannot contribute to avoiding global warming.

All these smokescreens and deceptions have been presented to the Germans in recent weeks by institutes, associations and politicians (and the media) who consider themselves particularly competent.

You are not.

The sore point of the climate protection movement

Environmentalists and climate activists should be confronted with this again and again, because it is the sore point that decides what it is really about: really about the environment and the climate - or not about agitation against capitalism, growth and prosperity, in other words about Social criticism for which nature and climate protection are just a welcome excuse?

As a sign of such ideologization, nuclear power has become a symbol of a typical German energy policy.

The Dutch are currently accepting that the walls literally shake in order to frack gas.

Next door, in Lower Saxony, the prime minister boasts during the election campaign that his country's supply is secure because gas is supplied from the Netherlands.

The nuclear power plant that is located in the country is therefore no longer needed.

And fracking?

Just not here!

What do you think the Dutch think about so much complacency?

Return to European reality

The French don't get much smarter from the Germans.

With his decision, Habeck says nothing other than: If all 56 nuclear power plants in France were in reliable operation, we could also do without the three remaining German nuclear power plants.

Then the electricity exporting country, which is Germany, would not be overburdened;

and the electricity importing country, which Germany is, could sleep peacefully.

No amount of wind power and sunshine will change that for the time being.

If the nuclear decision helps German politics to get off its high horse and return to European reality, more would be gained than just a breather in the acute energy crisis.

This is the aim of the FDP's demands to send all three nuclear power plants, including the power plant in Lower Saxony, to a genuine service life extension.

The party will hardly be able to assert itself in the traffic light coalition.

The SPD and the Greens would rather get out than get in.