German-Russian unprecedented case of Russian aggression should trigger unprecedented sanctions It should create more accessible, less bureaucratic financing options for companies and private households to implement this transition and increase energy efficiency. Germany should lead this development by cutting red tape for new solar and wind power plants. Whereas price shocks will continue in the short-term – even if sanctions on Russian fossil fuel imports are imposed – price stabilization must be achieved in the mid-term through a rapid transformation of energy systems. Russia’s ability to significantly influence energy prices in EU member states is a strategic and unnecessary disadvantage for the EU that could have already been reduced by an increased deployment of renewable energy. Russia & long-established dependence on fossil fuels has made it highly vulnerableĮurope’s long-established dependence on fossil fuels has made it highly vulnerable to arbitrary acts of aggression by nondemocratic states that affect the prices and supply of these fuels. There is no way around the fact that Germany must once again become defensible. The West, and Germany in particular, have made Russia strong for many years. Germany needs both a security policy that is substantially better funded and a completely different economic policy.
The German government must realize that this completely unjustified war will have serious consequences – and it must make that crystal clear to the country’s citizens time and again. Because the NATO-Russia Founding Act became obsolete today, NATO must deploy substantial combat units to its eastern flank quickly and permanently.
Russia must be immediately and completely isolated politically and economically with measures that include the harshest sanctions imaginable. The West can only respond with maximum unity as it will be judged by its response for a very long time – not only by Russia itself, which now poses an imminent threat to all of us, but also by other autocratic regimes such as China. This ruthless, unlawful, and abhorrent aggression by Putin’s Russia is a turning point. German government must realize that this completely unjustified war will have serious consequences
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