BRUSSELS — After years of reducing its reliance on Russian gas, the European Union is moving to turn off the taps completely within the next two years.
The European Commission (EC) on May 6 presented a detailed roadmap to fully sever the European Union’s energy dependence on Russia by 2027.
Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen struck a defiant tone when announcing the plan: "No more shall Euros go into (Russia’s) war chest. Your gas will be banned. Your shadow fleet will be stopped."
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It sounds capitalist to point out that capitalists are cannibalizing European workers and economies and suggest that European workers should stand against it? I’ll clarify that my position is explicitly anti-capitalist.
Also, supporting Ukraine by goading them into fighting a war they can’t win, resulting in their entire economy being decimated and two generations of people being fed into a meat grinder isn’t as supportive as you might think it is. It would have been much better for literally everyone except the capitalist class to support Ukraine into peace before the war ever started. Instead, Europeans followed the lead of the US and intentionally instigated a conflict in the region precisely so they could more easily extract profit from Ukraine.
I dunno man, I suppose I should STFU about it cause I don’t actually know as much about the Ukr/Rus war, it’s just a bit like hearing the skies blue all your life, then being told it’s actually pink.
What part? How? You’ve made multiple statements about how it seems to you which seems totally nonsensical and have provided no explanation as to why it seems that way
Cause I was being a bit overly sure of myself. Now I’m apologising.
Understandable, it is easy to feel like we know things because we are fed so much “information” (headlines) every day, but lack the time to go research each thing and confirm the validity of what we hear first.
Either way, the only solutions for any workers anywhere is to organizing against capitalism and war now while we still have a semblance of a chance to survive as a species.
EU member states are ramping up austerity to move money from welfare to weapons, at a time where the only thing anyone should be investing in is slowing global warming and ensuring people will have food, water, medicine and shelter.
Aside from figuring out how to deal with billions of climate refugees who will be forced to move over the next 15 years, if a nuclear war doesn’t put enough soot in the atmosphere to prevent crops from being grown on 90% of the planet first.
If even a third of the people each nation would prioritize organizing a revolutionary change in our social and economic structures towards a more equitable and evidence based system, we would be able to prevent billions of deaths and usher in a golden age of humanity where we can provide everything we need for people, begin healing the planet, and even take our species off planet.