Until the crisis over Ukraine, there was an inbuilt tendency in - TopicsExpress

Until the crisis over Ukraine, there was an inbuilt tendency in Germany to embrace closer ties with Russia. Former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is close to Vladimir Putin (he has compared Russias intervention in Ukraine to NATOs action against Serbia in the 1990s) and is chairman of the board of Gazprom joint-venture pipeline company Nord Stream. In 2012, Russia piped 30 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Germany, accounting for 28% of the 105.5 billion cubic meters of gas delivered to the European Union. Friendships aside, the most significant driver of German energy-related foreign policy has been its powerful Green Party. Other countries considering letting domestic or foreign policy be determined by environmentalists would do well to consider where Germanys embrace of environmentalism has led. Germanys Greens first emerged as a political force at the end of the 1970s at a time of acute East-West tension. In response to deployment of Soviet midrange SS-20 missiles, NATO decided to station Pershing missiles in Germany. Massive, sometimes violent, demonstrations against nuclear power and nuclear missiles swept Germany. Whether consciously or not, the protesters were doing the Kremlins work in trying to split the Atlantic alliance. The protests turned the German left into the voice of radical environmentalism—a historical shift. Old Nazis and neo-Nazis had been the bearers of Germanys culture of ecological politics, which had been marginalized with Hitlers defeat. German environmentalism was antidemocratic and anticapitalist. The Nazis were Europes greenest party, passing laws to extend protected forests and banning animal vivisection while performing hideous experiments on human beings. In October 1980, Germanys Green Party was formed to stand in parliamentary and state elections. Eighteen years later it entered government in a Red-Green coalition with the left-of-center SPD and in 2000 successfully pushed for the gradual phaseout of nuclear power. The Greens biggest triumph came with Germanys adoption of its Energiewende, the transition to renewable energy. The policy is a long-term bonanza for Gazprom. It means that Germany will buy more and more Russian gas because it cannot depend on electricity from unreliable wind and solar to power its industries and keep the lights on. online.wsj/news/articles/SB10001424052702304747404579444901610420082?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion&mg=reno64-wsj

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