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To: combjelly who wrote (804597)	8/31/2014 7:57:23 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1578505

Yeah, I had no idea that fracking was a real possibility in Germany until recently. Very stupid that they have been sitting on their hands and jawboning instead of moving forward. Part of it is the natural trend of a democracy to not really do anything until there is a crisis. Why spend money now when you can just kick the can down the road? Another part is that, in my opinion, Germany thought they had tamed Russia and could use them to forge a greater EU that is independent of the US. With Germany in the driver seat, of course. That could have worked, too if they had some other leader than Putin. Virtually anyone else would have seen the advantages of a greater EU that spanned much of Eurasia. Entice China into the fold and it would be a tremendous economic bloc. All I can say is that the Germans were not watching Putin very closely nor listening to what he had to say the past 15 years. He slowly but surely has eliminated Russian freedoms and a free press. Its been open season on certain minorities. He ruthlessly put down the Chechen rebellion and annexed Abkhazia and South Ossetia without blinking an eye. The guy was raised by the KGB.......one of the few institutions that worked fairly well in the old Soviet Union. I afraid you are right......German aspirations coupled with their arrogance got them into this mess.