I think it was on this podcast that I learned Robert Habeck, who is Germany's Vice-Chancellor & Minister of Economic Affairs & Climate Action and who is responsible for making lasting decisions about Germany's energy future (a job I'd expect to be occupied by someone with a highly technical degree in engineering or the physical sciences), I learned that he does have a PhD..., in literature, and that prior to joining politics as a member of the Green Party, Habeck mostly just wrote children's books. It seems strange/foolish to me at first, to have a children's books writer make energy policy decisions that would drive impact Germany's economic and energy future for possibly decades. HOWEVER, once I really thought about it, I understood why Habeck was put in that role. Anti-nuclear Greens already live in their own fantasy realms where you can run a national grid on wind, solar, and good vibes, and everything works out. Habeck supplies the fantasy and anti-nuclear German Greens live in it. Or they'll at least try to live in it. Reality has a habit of intruding on fantasies, and then things get REAL very quickly.
6:50 because it's bypassing polish land ( so Poland doesn't get a cut from the gas ) and linking 2 historic enemies . Here spare us the naive good intentions speech and selflessness of polish government then he names all the countries that wouldn't get royalties from a pipepline bypassing their land , LOL .
Apparently the worst fears about NS1 and NS2 used as tool of war became reality so Polish worries are proven correct here, royalties aside (financial squeeze happened before also in previous winters). I would think that Germany owns solidarity to EU and NATO partners (also big trade partners) before anything else. These pipelines could have been build going through endangered by putin nations so that there would be deterant for doing any invasions. Now there was not enough of such deterant and even more- putin knew that germany will need at least 4GW more of power delivered somehow (closing of 3NPPs last December).
Not every nation in europe behaves like germans i.e. 'fuck you I got mine' mentality. If nations behavior was reflective of generations, germans would be the coutned among the boomers.
@@matthiasknutzen6061 Biden warned Putin. This makes it less likely that Putin will stop gas from going through Ukraine. Germany should never have tried to control European gas. The yanks were very much against them marginalising the importance of the Ukrainian gas pipes into Europe.
@@matthiasknutzen6061 thanks usa to take good care of Germany. Being American enemy is dangerous but being American ally is fatal: Henry Kissinger. Objective of NATO is to keep Russia out, usa in and German down: lord Isamay, first NATO chief...
So if someone in Europe reads a post from Congresswoman Maxine waters they should believe. She's in Congress. She's American. She can't be full of shit. If James clapper says something you should believe it. Is that how this works. If he is so sure he will have all the details. He will let us know soon enough. Or maybe not
Another extraordinary display of intellectual interplay based on world views that include the physical realities of the universe as it was handed to us. THANK YOU !
Just a warning with regards to the voting system. The German voting system is similar to the Russian election system. So Canadians better wake up to the reality that they have already the better alternative.
This happend close to Denmark and the island of Bornholm, so the footage of the boiling surface is filmed from a Danish Airforce Helicopter and Swedish Airforce Helicopter. Not Norvegian, for crying out lout.. The explosion was picked up on Seismometers ib Denmark and Sweden and clearly shows they are powerfull explosion in the +100 kg TNT class. The sabotage happend at the day of opning Baltic Pipe from Norway via Denmark to Polan. A 10 billion cubik meter pr year, natural gas pipeline.
@D James thanks usa to take good care of Germany. Being American enemy is dangerous but being American ally is fatal: Henry Kissinger. Objective of NATO is to keep Russia out, usa in and German down: lord Isamay, first NATO chief....
@D James 240 feet underwater and buried in a refilled trench , a concrete covered , cylindrical thick steel pipe the explosive would have to be of very high grade and located precisely on the side of the four pipes
Europe (and Poland) are screwed for the future because it is a densely populated region with little in the way of energy resources. Poland's energy strategy of building a pipeline to Norway to "replace" Russian gas is nonsense, as Norway's gas production is in decline anyway and they are only able to try to outbid other countries in north west Europe like the UK or Germany for the same resource. Polish industry cannot afford to pay Norway $400 barrel equivalent gas prices and will continue to shut down. Sure nuclear plants would help, although electricity in a typical country is only around a quarter of total energy use. Europe should be crash building new nuclear plants, but the only debate I see is how fast to shut them down. Don't see any actual evidence of nuclear plants being constructed in Poland. If I lived in Poland, rather than gloating about who "wins" in Ukraine, I would be working on a plan to get out of the region, as it's resources will not support ~500 million people with anything remotely resembling the same living standard going forward.
Is it possible to get better / more knowledgeable and a little less bias guest? As a partially informed person, it make me cringe so hard by the guest dishonesty.
Thanks for a great interview - both of you! Having worked in CEE many years but based in Scandinavia so much with Adam and their realities. Need ideologists to leave the room and for pragmatic and facts based decisions to enter to secure a clean, safe and prosperous future!
"No way to go back to normal" (In regards to Russia/European relations.) This is very flawed thinking, driven by obvious bias. This type of thinking leads to even worse outcomes. Path to redemption for both sides must remain open for peace to be possible. Both sides share serious blame for the geopolitical situation.
If by both sides You mean putins russia and Germany then I agree. The later enabled the first and there would be no current situation without utter stupidity and myopic actions of Germany. Merkel could have modified what happened before. She didn't. Current leader could have modified the course knowing about what putin is cooking for Ukraine (at latest winter 2021). He didn't. With ~8GW of nuclear power (3still running plants in germany and 3closed last December) this country and whole EU would have been in better conditions and in the meantime this cowards are barely doing anything to keep the last ones running for longer. Putin believed his own propaganda and Germans also did believe that modern society can be powered by wind and sunshine, which in real world is NatGas and coal, with slightly less consumption/emmisions.
Great interview! It looks like fun games and pretending that environment is so important for Energiewende has been finally checked by reality. Ten years to late but I hope that every country pays attention and even Germans will learn someday soon.
This stuff is better when politics are left out, I get it you don't like Russia but to continue to keep referring to Russia in negative wording makes the content less
@@rudyinthesky4967 -sending the message -avoiding payments/punishments for not delivering contracted gas -scarring EU (we can blow your pipelines to) -burning the bridges- internally for russia to show that even if putin is "retired" there is no quick back to normal -many other ideas
I think it was on this podcast that I learned Robert Habeck, who is Germany's Vice-Chancellor & Minister of Economic Affairs & Climate Action and who is responsible for making lasting decisions about Germany's energy future (a job I'd expect to be occupied by someone with a highly technical degree in engineering or the physical sciences), I learned that he does have a PhD..., in literature, and that prior to joining politics as a member of the Green Party, Habeck mostly just wrote children's books.
It seems strange/foolish to me at first, to have a children's books writer make energy policy decisions that would drive impact Germany's economic and energy future for possibly decades. HOWEVER, once I really thought about it, I understood why Habeck was put in that role. Anti-nuclear Greens already live in their own fantasy realms where you can run a national grid on wind, solar, and good vibes, and everything works out. Habeck supplies the fantasy and anti-nuclear German Greens live in it. Or they'll at least try to live in it. Reality has a habit of intruding on fantasies, and then things get REAL very quickly.
6:50 because it's bypassing polish land ( so Poland doesn't get a cut from the gas ) and linking 2 historic enemies .
Here spare us the naive good intentions speech and selflessness of polish government
then he names all the countries that wouldn't get royalties from a pipepline bypassing their land , LOL .
Apparently the worst fears about NS1 and NS2 used as tool of war became reality so Polish worries are proven correct here, royalties aside (financial squeeze happened before also in previous winters). I would think that Germany owns solidarity to EU and NATO partners (also big trade partners) before anything else. These pipelines could have been build going through endangered by putin nations so that there would be deterant for doing any invasions. Now there was not enough of such deterant and even more- putin knew that germany will need at least 4GW more of power delivered somehow (closing of 3NPPs last December).
Not every nation in europe behaves like germans i.e. 'fuck you I got mine' mentality. If nations behavior was reflective of generations, germans would be the coutned among the boomers.
Thanks for the historical context Adam! Great episode.
There is a Tweet from POL MEP saying, "Thanks USA"...how did you miss it ?
He's known for joking and shitposting though
@@matthiasknutzen6061 Biden warned Putin. This makes it less likely that Putin will stop gas from going through Ukraine. Germany should never have tried to control European gas. The yanks were very much against them marginalising the importance of the Ukrainian gas pipes into Europe.
@@matthiasknutzen6061 thanks usa to take good care of Germany. Being American enemy is dangerous but being American ally is fatal: Henry Kissinger.
Objective of NATO is to keep Russia out, usa in and German down: lord Isamay, first NATO chief...
So if someone in Europe reads a post from Congresswoman Maxine waters they should believe. She's in Congress. She's American. She can't be full of shit. If James clapper says something you should believe it. Is that how this works. If he is so sure he will have all the details. He will let us know soon enough. Or maybe not
@@aslampervez2294 as if I care what that horrible war criminal has to say
Another extraordinary display of intellectual interplay based on world views that include the physical realities of the universe as it was handed to us. THANK YOU !
Brandon has kept his promise to destroy Nordstream 2
"Reality bats last" is it how it goes?
Trading around Ukraine is "choking" them? Give me a break
Great dialogue as usual.
Any chance of having the guest back to revisit this topic... August 2023?
Thank you for uploading and sharing.
Works for me .. always great info .. thanks Chris
Just a warning with regards to the voting system. The German voting system is similar to the Russian election system. So Canadians better wake up to the reality that they have already the better alternative.
This happend close to Denmark and the island of Bornholm, so the footage of the boiling surface is filmed from a Danish Airforce Helicopter and Swedish Airforce Helicopter.
Not Norvegian, for crying out lout..
The explosion was picked up on Seismometers ib Denmark and Sweden and clearly shows they are powerfull explosion in the +100 kg TNT class.
The sabotage happend at the day of opning Baltic Pipe from Norway via Denmark to Polan.
A 10 billion cubik meter pr year, natural gas pipeline.
glad to hear from a pollack.
I really need to visit some of the cathedrals there before anything *really* crazy happens.
It is quite a coincidence that this happened to both pipelines. Was it an over pressurization issue or.....
@D James thanks usa to take good care of Germany. Being American enemy is dangerous but being American ally is fatal: Henry Kissinger.
Objective of NATO is to keep Russia out, usa in and German down: lord Isamay, first NATO chief....
Aslam, out of context declarations count as saying that the AP1000 is a Chernobyl like plant
@D James 240 feet underwater and buried in a refilled trench , a concrete covered , cylindrical thick steel pipe
the explosive would have to be of very high grade and located precisely on the side of the four pipes
Tucker Carlson has savagely focused on the pipeline 'sabotage' and the dangerous environmental and political implications.
Let's GO Brandon! BRANDON'S handlers DID IT!
hardly a impartial conversation hey
Thanks Guys...very interesting and informative! The cowinkidinks were eye opening! 😉
Partisan Polish Hack
what a great episode
I hope it's only a problem with the upload but there is no audio
It could be that the video is still processing. If you still can't hear audio in a little while, let us know! I'm getting audio on my end.
Works for me!
@@decouplemedia yes now it's working 😅
Europe (and Poland) are screwed for the future because it is a densely populated region with little in the way of energy resources. Poland's energy strategy of building a pipeline to Norway to "replace" Russian gas is nonsense, as Norway's gas production is in decline anyway and they are only able to try to outbid other countries in north west Europe like the UK or Germany for the same resource. Polish industry cannot afford to pay Norway $400 barrel equivalent gas prices and will continue to shut down. Sure nuclear plants would help, although electricity in a typical country is only around a quarter of total energy use. Europe should be crash building new nuclear plants, but the only debate I see is how fast to shut them down. Don't see any actual evidence of nuclear plants being constructed in Poland. If I lived in Poland, rather than gloating about who "wins" in Ukraine, I would be working on a plan to get out of the region, as it's resources will not support ~500 million people with anything remotely resembling the same living standard going forward.
We can't hear
Is it possible to get better / more knowledgeable and a little less bias guest? As a partially informed person, it make me cringe so hard by the guest dishonesty.
Guest was dishonest? When?
You should have asked if Poland will be building any power plants with the money they want from Germany.
Poland wants money from Germany? What's their rationale?
In October 2024 reality that Gazprom owed contract funds and this gives Russia an out.
Thanks for a great interview - both of you! Having worked in CEE many years but based in Scandinavia so much with Adam and their realities. Need ideologists to leave the room and for pragmatic and facts based decisions to enter to secure a clean, safe and prosperous future!
"No way to go back to normal" (In regards to Russia/European relations.) This is very flawed thinking, driven by obvious bias. This type of thinking leads to even worse outcomes. Path to redemption for both sides must remain open for peace to be possible. Both sides share serious blame for the geopolitical situation.
If by both sides You mean putins russia and Germany then I agree. The later enabled the first and there would be no current situation without utter stupidity and myopic actions of Germany. Merkel could have modified what happened before. She didn't. Current leader could have modified the course knowing about what putin is cooking for Ukraine (at latest winter 2021). He didn't. With ~8GW of nuclear power (3still running plants in germany and 3closed last December) this country and whole EU would have been in better conditions and in the meantime this cowards are barely doing anything to keep the last ones running for longer. Putin believed his own propaganda and Germans also did believe that modern society can be powered by wind and sunshine, which in real world is NatGas and coal, with slightly less consumption/emmisions.
Great interview! It looks like fun games and pretending that environment is so important for Energiewende has been finally checked by reality. Ten years to late but I hope that every country pays attention and even Germans will learn someday soon.
This stuff is better when politics are left out, I get it you don't like Russia but to continue to keep referring to Russia in negative wording makes the content less
This is a heavyhanded hint to the EU, that Russia can cut our important infrastructure, gas and electric cables, at any moment.
Why would Russia damage their own money making pipeline? To punish EU all they had to do was turn off the taps.
@@rudyinthesky4967 -sending the message
-avoiding payments/punishments for not delivering contracted gas
-scarring EU (we can blow your pipelines to)
-burning the bridges- internally for russia to show that even if putin is "retired" there is no quick back to normal
-many other ideas
@@rudyinthesky4967 Adam did suggest a possible motive Putin has. Did you miss that?