I think those are more emergent properties of many separate individual interests looking out only for themselves. I’d say “because money” is a big one in explaining why the working class is often less revolutionary than they are scared and pacified. Nobody wants to fight a war. Except Russia.
I don’t disagree (look at Schroeder, he is still walking free), but my point stands, the number is a tiny percentage of EU GDP.
Even the costs saving of using russian gas were something along the lines of 0.2% of EU GDP (and thats ignoring the cost of the caustic effect that the russians have had on democracy and governance in EU).
I think those are more emergent properties of many separate individual interests looking out only for themselves. I’d say “because money” is a big one in explaining why the working class is often less revolutionary than they are scared and pacified. Nobody wants to fight a war. Except Russia.
I don’t disagree (look at Schroeder, he is still walking free), but my point stands, the number is a tiny percentage of EU GDP.
Even the costs saving of using russian gas were something along the lines of 0.2% of EU GDP (and thats ignoring the cost of the caustic effect that the russians have had on democracy and governance in EU).
But I bet that that 0.2% of EU GDP made a HUGE difference to a handful of key players who lobbied their way into a position of profiting from it.
Exactly