Isabelle Boemeke
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So, again, one of those unexpected things.
Yeah, what's so crazy about Germany, too, you just brought this up, but, you know, Germany, to your point, shut down or decided to phase out of nuclear whenever Fukushima happened.
And this was Angela Merkel, who, by the way, is a physicist, so she should know better.
But there was, Germany was super anti-nuclear and
She is a politician.
And Germany is a super anti-nuclear country.
You know, she had to make the tough choice of doing whatever her population wanted.
But later, Germany ended up shutting down their nuclear plants.
But Germany's former chancellor is on the board of three Russian gas companies.
Hmm.
Germany was dependent on Russian gas, as you mentioned in the beginning.
I mean, so much so that they were effectively funding the war in Ukraine, at least in the beginning.
Well, to be fair, he was probably not on the board when he was chancellor, but you know.
He was making a million dollars a year basically from being on this board.
Yeah.
Not for nothing.
Exactly.
So it's just political influence, access and all of those, you know, good things.
So it's it just gets worse and worse the more you learn about it.
And Germany is just hell bent on being consistently in the wrong side of history for some weird reason.