Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!snipe.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) Newsgroups: misc.news.internet.discuss Subject: Re: Are male voters reluctant to vote for a woman? Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 18:04:09 +0100 Organization: Sn!peCo World Wide Wading Birds Lines: 35 Message-ID: <1r1fiby.15g6t2b1dtgodmN%snipeco.2@gmail.com> References: <00bec184-5355-30a3-99ba-fe9a8bc01d93@example.net> <3feb1ff3-de0d-c046-3d90-938bf5816abe@example.net> <775b3af6-9e31-39f1-be23-948249a3cd15@example.net> <1r1f6zr.gkix181pblydkN%snipeco.2@gmail.com> Reply-To: snipeco.1@gmail.com (Sn!pe) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 19:04:09 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: snipe.eternal-september.org; posting-host="33717a425bc334b7ebe82e06d4fa87a4"; logging-data="1361912"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1//EN433H4+jg+CvbHOCbqp" User-Agent: MacSOUP/2.8.6b1 (ed136d9b90) (Mac OS 10.13.6) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hJrI0gvMSOd3JuDuqaMooT4Vp0E= X-Copyright: Copyright (c) 2024 Sn!peCo WWWB, All Rights Reserved. This article may be reproduced for the purposes of propagation and personal use only, no commercial use without express permission. X-Tongue-In-Cheek: Always X-Disclaimer: Any advice that I may give is worth only what I paid for it. This article comprises only my personal opinions unless otherwise stated. May contain traces of nuts. X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett; WonK; Large Enid; Lydia Dustbin X-Validate: All genuine Sn!peCo articles contain the header: "Injection-Info: snipe.eternal-september.org;" my registered FQDN. X-Face: 5 wrote: > On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 13:47:08 +0100, snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) wrote: > > >Merkel grew up in East Germany before reunification. > >It is hardly surprising that she was kindly disposed towards Russia, > >even to the extent of making Germany almost totally dependent on > >Russia for its energy. > > Uh, she was not involved....in beginning days. > > > On Sunday 1 February 1970, senior politicians and gas executives from > Germany and the Soviet Union gathered at the upmarket Hotel Kaiserhof > in Essen. They were there to celebrate the signing of a contract for > the first major Russia-Germany gas pipeline, which was to run from > Siberia to the West German border at Marktredwitz in Bavaria. > > > Headlines from the article you cite:- "'We were all wrong': how Germany got hooked on Russian energy" "Germany has been forced to admit it was a terrible mistake to become so dependent on Russian oil and gas." Who was Chancellor when the decision to shut down German nuclear power generation was taken on 30 June 2011? -- ^Ï^. Sn!pe, VC, PTB, FIBS My pet rock Gordon eagerly awaits the expected socialist paradise.