1. Russia to still accept payment from Germany in Euro/Dollars?
Well....things shifted around yesterday, and what is said....is that for the period of this contract....payment will continue in Euro or dollars. The Russians (Putin himself) apparently came around to the reality that if you turned off the natural gas....there weren't customers lined up to replace Germany (at least willing to do the Rubles gimmick like Russia wanted).
2. Official German government rules for Covid quarantine reduced to five days?
Yes. Announced yesterday. Pretty shocking, when compared to the summer 2020 rules.
3. German inflation numbers now at 7.3-percent?
Yes, and most blame energy prices going up here in the first quarter of 2022.
4. Light snow predicted for Friday/Saturday in central Germany?
Shocking a lot of people. Past six weeks have been mild weather. Temp is supposed to be near freezing in this 48-hour period....making the hobby garden crowd nervous. Lot of people have already taken their winter tires off, and shifted to summer tires.
5. Is there some new 'fear' called German angst?
Well...lately, this has been discussed. The idea is that someone (namely Putin or the Kremlin) is 'after' them (the Germans), and some internal fear mechanism has been turned on.
Part of this....revolves around Germans watching an over-abundance of nightly news and thinking nuke-war is coming, or that the Russians will turn off the natural gas flow, or that Putin is some 'Satan-like' evil. All of this leads to anxiety attacks.
Widespread? I would argue that it's probably one out of twenty German adults, and maybe around younger juveniles....maybe one out of forty (kids overdosing on war video).
If you go back a year....there was this 'fear' business going on with Covid, and with the environmental business. In some ways, I would suggest German society motivates itself from one fear to another.
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