Germany and Russia has for many years worked to mutual satisfaction, but the events of late 2013-early 2014 threw our country on different sides of the barricades.
March 18, 2014 was signed the agreement on the accession of the Republic of Crimea into the Russian Federation, and rushed…
So, March 2014:
18 March on the website The Local published an article with the headline, worthy of the Nobel prize in the category: “Die with laughter”. German segment of the site presented a digest of articles from the German press with the surprising title: “Germany needs to discuss the issue of banning Russian gas”.
Making a brief overview of the article, I would say that “war machine” Russia offered to stop using the ban of gas exports from Russia to Europe and, if not entirely to deny, at least to scare that banned. Our “Western partners”, considering that Russia is weak, and outside of Moscow and St. Petersburg — nothing, I offered to choke us economy because it will not be as fast as a military response, but more efficiently.
But at the same time the EU bureaucrats apparently on their own experience evaluating the ability of prostitutes to raise real property, made it mandatory for all countries belonging to the European Union, to include in GDP the earnings of prostitution and drug sales, shifting on the fragile female shoulders the rise of the European economy.
Assessing the capabilities of the two new sectors of the economy — prostitucii and narcotizegist, German Federal statistical office Destatis said that Germany’s GDP may increase by 3%, because, according to experts, the volume of shadow economy of Germany is between €140 billion and €420 billion, or about 15% of GDP.
What came out of it, we shall see a little later, when will come 2015, but for now — July. Alas, the tragic, bitter and very cynical.
July 17 — the crash of flight MH-17
And further: article titles with the German segment of The Local, popped up in the search when typing the phrase “MH-17”:
July 18 — about the crash and sanctions
July 19 — on the international investigation
July 20 — sanctions and MH17
July 21 — in memory of the victims
July 22 — we are going to put pressure on Russia
July 22 — German business — we do not want war with Russia
July 23 — Merkel on sanctions
July 24 — about Lufthansa
July 25 — German industry will support sanctions against Russia
July 29 — the EU adopted a new, tougher round of sanctions
July 30 — Merkel: sanctions against Russia are “unavoidable”
July 31 — about the secret negotiations, Merkel and Putin
7 August Russia imposed a ban on the import of German products
An interesting trend? Russia 2 weeks poked his nose in the downed aircraft. Hollande and Cameron threatened sanctions (July 20). Putin demanded to ensure access to the crash site, as if it was a territory of Russia. Promised to deprive the right to host the world football championship in 2018 (July 23). And then, imposing sanctions, was quiet as a mouse under a broom.
The conclusion is obvious, though cynical and cruel: the loss of flight MH-17 was used to overlay another pile of sanctions.
December 2014
The Federal Institute of raw materials in Hanover, said: Russia supplies a third of the necessary German engineers — oil and gas, and in the future import of gas and oil will only grow.
As the future showed, in Hanover, the Institute employs soothsayers.
2015.
February.
Destatis released data on GDP growth. You remember that German statistics had promised the German GDP of +3% just for prostitutes and drugs? And what happened?
+0.6%.
Drum roll!..
Damn it! Followed by an untranslatable play of words and idiomatic expressions.
But, where is the money?
The answer is simple — everything went to Russian sanctions.
Unable to stop and calculate how much about Germany…clicked on anti-Russian sanctions, given that 3% should be calculated from GDP in 2013 and 2.7 trillion euros, according to Destatis.
June 2015
June 18, Gazprom signed an agreement with Shell, E. ON and OMV on the construction of the Nord stream-2″.
Ah! Hanover! You knew! And Hello to you, Spiegel, proposing to ban Russian gas.
July. The anniversary of the tragedy of MH-17.
27 Jul 2015
The Local publishes a new article with the title luxury: “the Government knew about the dangers of flying over Ukraine.”
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“Berlin didn’t warn your airline that we should change the maps of the flights. Only after a disaster, airlines have started to look for ways to bypass Eastern Ukraine. Although through diplomatic channels a few days before the disaster it was reported that the situation in Eastern Ukraine is “disturbing” and that was shot down a military plane at a height of 6 000 meters.
Usually the Ministry of transport informs the airline about changing the situation through a special communiqué. But there was no information before the accident”.
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Any familiar notes? Since then we have not just heard. In Paris knew, but I didn’t. In Brussels knew, but said nothing. But it will remain on the conscience of European politicians and intelligence services, as we go down the calendar.
4 September 2015 Gazprom and high-ranking representatives of BASF, E. ON, Shell, and OMV signed the shareholders ‘ Agreement to create a gas pipeline “Northern stream-2”. And that the Treaty Russia has obtained, in addition to transit? Following the transaction, Gazprom will increase to 100% its share in joint companies for gas trading and storage in Europe WINGAS, WIEH and WIEE, and will also receive a 50% stake in the company WINZ, a leading exploration and production of hydrocarbons in the North sea.
WINGAS GmbH (WINGAS) is a joint venture of Wintershall (50.02 per cent) and “Gazprom” (49,98%). Main field of activities of WINGAS is a wholesale trade and storage of natural gas. The company supplies hydrocarbons to customers in Germany, where the company holds a market share of over 20% and in Belgium, the Netherlands, UK, Austria, the Czech Republic and in other countries.
Under this agreement, Gazprom received, including gas storage facility rheden, near Bremen, with a capacity of 4.4 billion cubic meters, accounting for 20% of the total stock of German gas.
Yes, it’s just a holiday for you!
2 Dec 2015
The Local reported that the German company lost nearly 1/3 of its Russian business because of the sanctions. The 20 largest German companies included in DAX index, received from business with Russia in 2015, only 15 billion euros. In 2014 — 19 billion, and in 2013 — 22 billion euros.
And it’s only 20 German companies that participated in the analysis. The company’s largest, but — chicken grain by grain, and the whole court in guano. And the EAC, who led the research, does not Harbor high hopes, predicting for the current year of stagnation and a weak recovery in 2017. And a brief, but damning conclusion: “Western sanctions hit harder for the German economy than the Russian response.”
Comes to mind the old song: “Someone loses, and someone finds”
2016
January 26, “Moscow has accused Germany of covering up the rape of Russian girl”
Lavrov pointed to Germany and the Berlin police’s nose in the fact that the government concealed the truth about the rape of a child, which allegedly “was missing for 30 hours on their own.
Russian, living in Berlin, came to the demonstration, and Germany did not remain in debt. The next day on the website The Local published an article: “the Kremlin’s propaganda effort on weak points of the refugee crisis”, followed by an article about the fact that Russia is exploiting the story about the girl Lisa.
Government spokesman Steffen Seibert said that “there is no reason, in fact it is unacceptable to exploit the incident politically”.
Oh really?
March
10 March German intelligence Chief warned that “Putin is trying to destabilize Germany”
Hans-Georg Maassen, the chief of domestic intelligence and Guido Mueller — Deputy head of foreign intelligence warned German politicians that there is a danger that Moscow will use the potential of the “Russian community” of Germany in order to destabilize the situation in the country, and the second option destabilization of Germany — a story about “how terrible to live in Germany with this influx of refugees.
And then, was followed by elections in three German länder, the CDU was defeated, and Germany was brewing a typically Russian questions: Who is guilty and what to do? Having no experience of avoiding such issues, and no answers to them, Germany took the path of least resistance, appointing an extreme, quickly — Russian:
On 15 April The Local has posted a new article in which Snowden the work is attributed to Russia, and evidence, in the opinion of Hans-Georg Maasen, already mentioned, is the fact that Snowden has not published any documents to discredit China or Russia who are the main targets of NSA spying.
Maassen also said “there is evidence that the Kremlin is using every opportunity to discredit Germany.” Misinformation, propaganda, hacking, attempts to recruit representatives of the Bundestag and so on.
And 17 APR sounded painfully familiar notes. The Germans remembered the “Russian mafia”, telling that the German healthcare sector has lost almost 1 billion euros due to moshennichestv, some of which lead to the “Russian mafia”.
The horror, the horror?
That’s only if you carefully read the article, no special relationship or evidence of communications with “Russian mafia”, is not. A “Russian mafia” is “Russian-Eurasian,” but rather, Russian-speaking.
Of course, over the past couple of years the Local has been posted a lot of articles, and not all of them relate to Russia or Putin, but I want to note a trend: Germany goes down, the tackles are getting cheaper. If you remember, two years ago Russia was accused of starting the war and the annexation of Crimea, and now? Espionage, fraud. So, for lack of a stamp, in Germany you have to write on the toilet.
Summarize. That was two years ago?
Russia stated that Crimea returned to Russia in a referendum. And since then nothing has changed.
Russia said that Ukraine is not at war. And is not at war.
Russia said that did not shoot down MH-17. Never knocked.
That said Europe?
Russia annexed the Crimea and it should be punished, destroying the Russian economy. What happened? Collapse themselves.
Russia will receive “Mistral”. Well, not received, and France returned the money and have been looking for where to dump the trough.
Russian gas is not needed. What do I get? Even as the need…
To continue this list endlessly, but one conclusion: the Power of the truth™.
Already own citizens have less trust in what the media are writing, and ask awkward questions, the answer to which I do not want to give.
And now Europe in General and Germany in particular, there is only one chance to get out of their own guano while in the USA commercial break, quietly move out of sanctions, pretending that nothing had happened.
