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Whether they are negative, positive, 0, high or low. You can be assured people will complain about it as if it is the worst outcome.

Assumption 1: LNG would be abundant and moderately priced. Hormuz closure removes Qatar (~20% of global LNG) from the market. US and Australian cargoes get bid away by Asia. Europe is the residual buyer at whatever price clears. Floor is now €40-70/MWh, not €20-30.

@gonenb @grok @Magistrotheriu1 @NewReaganCaucus @Orcasandwich I can't believe I got blocked for this lmao

@gonenb @grok @Magistrotheriu1 @NewReaganCaucus @Orcasandwich We heard about such things. At least in my case I am not stuck in one media source so... I don't however just jump on any report, like I indicated hamas was never painted as a good guy even in media here, so this doesn't do anything?????

So what's up with Europe hating on Israel?

Ich habe keinen Zweifel daran, dass die FDP wieder erfolgreich sein wird. Die Voraussetzung ist eine geschlossene Formation. Ich leiste meinen Beitrag dazu, unterstütze Wolfgang Kubicki und werde nicht erneut antreten. Mein Ziel ist vor allem, dass unser Land wieder nach vorne kommt. Das geht nur mit einer starken FDP, die klar für Marktwirtschaft und Freiheit eintritt. Dafür habe ich in den letzten Jahrzehnten mit unserer Partei gekämpft und dafür werde ich mich auch immer einsetzen.

What a downfall of the once only global super power. Man made. With eyes wide open. Still unbelievable, yet reality.

Bitte mehr Reichweite und action pls. !!! @piratenparteibb @PiratenNRW @ppsde @MartinSonneborn #KeepAndroidOpen keepandroidopen.org

@geoscemo Yeah, much german bureaucracy actually does have purpose, even if long-winded, but this is as you say.

@verachte I mean it's pretty obvious they wrote it that way so that activating the clause in wartime becomes just an executive matter rather than having to go through a Bundestag vote.

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@stefan_mnl Unless the state has the most competent people in the country, it tends to not work well with the state.

This degenerate libertarian idea that “the state” is a bad thing is stupid. The state can work very well. The problem are the people within the state.

@KristinaHinz_ What decentralised alternatives? Mastodon? X is not really good for most news in Germany. Netzpolitik, heise, is good for certain news sources. True Boomers only read news papers so rip. There are media from all sorts of positions. But if you're serious you inform yourself.

How do people get informed who don't use X or its "decentralized alternatives" in Germany? It's a serious question.

@adamrehor01 I was wondering more on a philosophical difference, even on an individual level. It seems incompatible with profit oriented thinking. Something americans have said to me is, there is no meaning in values without the person, to which I don't philosophically agree.

@verachte Empathy can be a motivating factor, but it rarely scales to large groups or nations. It's a cognitive simulation process that works best on relatable individuals, not abstract collectives. Even then, how the result of that process affects actual behavior is far from universal.

Something a bit hard to describe that I keep seeing is the idea of “europe needs this more, so europe is at fault, they should be thankful for us doing it” I am starting to think that this is a cultural difference.

@adamrehor01 What about things like empathy? Fundamentally, empathy is because there are shared values and these values themselves are valued/precious/harmed. Would be more so a view. How is it philosophically different, how does purpose exist without any values? E.g reason to live.

@adamrehor01 Legitimize isn't meant to anyone but rather as in, it follows that this is coherently their action. What they and others would take in their position. By basis that others would not be much different just in different situations. The end result is the same, but well, I see.

BREAKING: The US-Europe alliance is reportedly reaching a "breaking point" over the Iran War, and President Trump has "mused" to aides about backing out of NATO, per WSJ. Details include: 1. Trans-Atlantic ties between the US and Europe are "deteriorating rapidly" 2. Trump has expressed "disgust" with European allies for not joining the US-Israeli war against Iran 3. Trump is questioning whether defending Europe serves US interests at all if Europeans do not help American military interventions in the Middle East or elsewhere 4. The White House’s stance is being described as a "break" with American global strategy since WW2 US-NATO relations appear to be at new lows.

@adamrehor01 Philosophically, I don't see the idea behind eliminating threats by mere presence as rational either. It would legitimize russia's war. Would make it good to attack countries who have a rising economy to maintain superior state over them only constrained by potential backlash..

@adamrehor01 To be precise it is on fire rather than on strike (e.g declaration of war rather than strike). But yes. Seems so.

@adamrehor01 Iran is naturally an ideological region it is quite possible they will go to the bitterend rather than simply doing what the U.S has been expecting which is to call quits and take pacifist profit from the oil trades.

@adamrehor01 Yes, but this doesn't work now. Iran just needs to mine/drone the strait. And over. When truly all capability of response from Iran is taken away at which it can no longer take such actions that is the same as having control over all of Iran. US relies on Iran to stop for nada

@adamrehor01 Defense in many european countries and NATO itself implies being attacked, so attacks to take out threats are never really defense. Obviously threats start earlier but europe itself would condition strikes with international law, U.S has shown it will just attack.

@verachte Well, this touches on a core philosophical difference at the heart of the whole situation: When does something count as a "credible threat," and therefore a strike against it as "defense"? Clearly that threshold is very different in the US and across many European countries.