Vladimir Putin in his office in Moscow,Image: www.imago-images.de / ITAR-TASS
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The Russian President apparently hoped for more: 70-year-old Vladimir Putin is sitting in an armchair on a Russian talk show and telling a joke. There is no big laughter, only a few polite laughs.
After Russia about a year ago in the Ukraine marched in, Putin has once again expanded his propaganda. In talk shows, anti-West and, of course, anti-Ukraine sentiment is being raised. Most of the time you are successful.
Solovyov cheered up the mood against Germany
Above all, Putin’s chief propagandist Vladimir Solovyov is well received by his audience when he makes fun of politicians such as Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock or Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
Putin apparently had similar plans – but somehow his story was not quite as fruitful. That could have been because the foundation of his joke has crumbled quite a bit.
The joke is about the energy crisis. And Putin apparently assumed that the People in Germany sat freezing in their apartments during the winter.
A friend from Germany told him this “anecdote”.
“There is a family. The son asks his father: ‘Dad, why is our house cold?’ The father says: ‘Because Russia attacked Ukraine.’ The child asks, ‘What does this have to do with us?’ The father says: ‘We imposed sanctions on the Russians.’ The child asks: ‘Why?’ Says the father: ‘To make the Russians feel bad.’ The child asks: ‘Are we Russians?'”
The joke would probably have worked better if there had really been such an energy problem in Germany.
The fact is, however, that Germany got through the winter well despite the sanctions against Russia and the standstill of the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline.
Gas storage in Germany fuller than planned
The Federal Republic is still highly dependent on imports. But the largest supplier – Russia – was replaced by Norway in 2022. Next largest suppliers were Belgium, the Netherlands and Czech Republic.
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However, the energy crisis is still not over. The CEO of the chemical giant BASF, Martin Brudermüller, has just identified risks for the German economy in 2023 Business warned: “The consequences of the energy price crisis will be felt this year by the Pursue probably have a bigger impact than 2022″, he told the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sunday newspaper”.
Nevertheless, the filling levels of the German gas storage facilities are above the actual target. So Germany doesn’t have to freeze. According to the law, the storage tanks should actually be 90 percent full by November 1, but the value was increased to 95 percent by regulation at the end of July 2022. This goal was exceeded.
Unfortunately, Putin’s joke was doomed from the start.
World-renowned US journalist Seymour Hersh claims that the US blew up the Nord Stream pipelines with the help of Norway. The US government denies vehemently – the case at a glance.
A total of four explosions occurred in September last year on the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea. The pipelines running through Sweden and Denmark were built to transport Russian gas, including to Germany in particular. According to Swedish investigations, it is clear that it was a matter of sabotage – explosive residues were detected near the leaks.
