1. Civey (polling group) went out and asked Germans....would you go without Russian natural gas. Response was in western Germany.....64-percent said dump the Russian natural gas. In eastern Germany.....42-percent. Survey also suggests the willing nature to down down heating temperatures in houses....very much popular in western regions....not so much in eastern regions.
Note: yeah, there is a fair amount of German population which is ethnic-Russian in the eastern region.
2. Habeck (Green Party, and vice-Chancellor) came out and said it wasn't smart to use Easter marches to push for peace-agenda....if Putin wasn't willing to halt his aggressive policies.
3. Fracking in Germany? Absolute no....Habeck restated the German policy this week.
4. Retired BND (German version of CIA) chief says more Russian espionage is likely in the future.
5. Ukraine filling out the EU membership paperwork? Yes. Based on various news outlets....I'd say that the EU in the next days will receive the paperwork, and 'bless' it within a week. It'll just infuriate Putin more....my best guess.
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Interesting op-ed article from a retired American Army LTG who saw up close and worked with both the Russian and Ukrainian military and their respective leaders.
https://www.thebulwark.com/I-COMMANDED-U-S-ARMY-EUROPE-HERES-WHAT-I-SAW-IN-THE-RUSSIAN-AND-UKRAINIAN-ARMIES/
I read his piece about three days ago. It's a pretty fair assessment. If you took a Russian soldier into a BX-run clothing shop....to show off the boot collection and noted the cost relationship (10,000 rubles or $120)...he'd freak out. But as you go through the gear....item after item...the American Army guy has the top level quality on each single item.
It is to the advantage of Europe/US that we provide as much in terms of weapons to keep the Russian occupied. At the end of this matter (I suspect by mid-summer)....a whole chunk of the Russian economy will be sputtering along, with nothing working as advertised. I read a few days ago....150,000 railway cars are now inactive and sitting on tracks. A whole lot of nothing is being produced/procured, and thus no need to move things around in Russia.
Putin may still be around by the end of 2022....but he'll be leading a country with the economic landscape of Albania, and anyone with real money left....will have found some path to exit.
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