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Merz Blocks Nord Stream Forever, Seeks EU Sanctions; Trump Slaps 50% Tariffs EU; Putin Orders Buffer

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Tom Welsh
Tom Welsh
May 23, 2025

For the EU to impose sanctions on Nord Stream may seem odd; but remember that the USA, a fellow NATO member, actually blew it up.

Tom Welsh
Tom Welsh
Reply to  Tom Welsh
May 23, 2025

The Chinese, as usual, had a witty and convincing take on the matter.

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Tom Welsh
Tom Welsh
May 23, 2025

Surely Mr Merz intends to use EU sanctions to diffuse responsibility for the lack of gas still further.

I have long believed that one of the main practical purposes of modern governments is precisely to diffuse responsibility, so that no official can ever be blamed for anything. That would certainly explain a lot of their actions.

Macko
Macko
May 23, 2025

Why would Russia, after all the investment to divert gas to the east and to the south want to send gas back to the way it was? The gas is finite. At least Asia actually respects the fact that Russia is supplying them with gas, something the West is incapable of.

Tom Welsh
Tom Welsh
May 23, 2025

I suspect that the German government would like to “quell” all domestic debates without exception. Politics would be so much simpler if no one disagreed with the rulers.

Tom Welsh
Tom Welsh
May 23, 2025

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MoLa
MoLa
May 23, 2025

Thank you so much Alexander- for sharing all your thoughts and insights and the most for your words about the situation in Gaza- even if you have not spoken a lot of sentences, you said a lot

Tom Welsh
Tom Welsh
May 23, 2025

I very much appreciate Mr Mercouris’ closing words. We live in difficult and dangerous times. When I was young, in the 1960s and 1970s, I would never have believed a time would come when British citizens had to be so careful about what they say.

Vera Gottlieb
Vera Gottlieb
May 23, 2025

Merz is an IDIOT!!!

MoLa
MoLa
Reply to  Vera Gottlieb
May 24, 2025

Unfortunately not the only one

John Locke
John Locke
May 24, 2025

Russia should refuse to sell anything to the EU — let them freeze and starve

the EU must be destroyed

Vera Gottlieb
Vera Gottlieb
May 26, 2025

And so…the KAKISTOCRACY continues unabated.

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