Ah shit, here we go again …
German here, we are used to it. They do this every election to distract from their own mistakes, nobody in Germany has been taking it serious for many years because we all know that it´s just their usual election campaigning.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WARSAW/BERLIN, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Fighting to win an unprecedented third term in office, Poland’s nationalist government has seized on a target close to home: Germany, its NATO ally and biggest trading partner.
In a tight race ahead of Poland’s Oct. 15 election, leaders of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party have accused Germany of trying to dictate Polish government policy from Berlin on anything from migration to gas.
The feud has frayed Europe’s broadly united front supporting Ukraine against Russia’s invasion, shredding a plan for a joint Polish-German tank repair plant for Kyiv’s benefit.
“It’s very unhelpful that Poland, the people from the Law and Justice Party, continues to criticize Germany in such a harsh public way,” U.S. General Ben Hodges, who commanded U.S. Army forces in Europe in 2014-17, told Reuters.
The tank plant would have been a joint effort by German manufacturers Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and Rheinmetall (RHMG.DE), neither of which responded to a request for comment, and the Polish defence conglomerate Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa (PGZ).
A German Foreign Office spokesperson said Berlin and Warsaw work closely together on European security and defence but declined comment on “current domestic political debates in Poland”.
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It’s very unhelpful that Germany closed its nuclear reactors in favor of coal and Russian gas lmao. Yes the party is using Germany as a boogeyman or whatever but Germany isn’t innocent here.
Always the same uniformed comments repeating the same talking points.
Germany is not importing any Ruzzian gas anymore and in Poland, coal actually has the largest share in electricity production by a HUGE margin. The share is about 70% for Poland and 30% for Germany.
Polish conservatives gotta get over their victim complex.
That’s not what they even said. Maybe you should get over your superiority complex?
Enlighten us then, tell us what they said/meant and how it relates to the article?
You can also shove your quip about a “superiority complex”, I was merely responding to misleading (and that’s the generous interpretation) statements about Germany’s energy sector which get repeated ad nauseam. Germany has plenty of issues, but I expect people to engage in factual discussion and not just repeat the same old talking points that have little basis in reality.
