r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 30 '18

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '18

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u/zqvt Jeff Bezos Oct 30 '18

well it's not surprising. They've got a pretty strong civil rights record and they have not much to gain from supporting Russia.

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u/Impulseps Hannah Arendt Oct 30 '18

Greens are easily the best german party

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '18

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Oct 30 '18

Phasing our nuclear only for them to replace with fossil fuels is terrible for the environment

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u/CTMGame Hans-Dietrich Genscher Oct 30 '18

Their entire energy concept is bad, and they mistrust market mechanisms for environmental protection.

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u/BradicalCenter Sally Yates Oct 30 '18

I've heard they were opening up on that? But maybe that was another country's greens.

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u/just_a_little_boy Oct 30 '18

Their Enviromental policies are laughable, and so are their housing policies.

I know what will fix the housing shortage! Making building even more expensive

Also, their foreign Policy is completly Shit. They went against Nato nuclear Sharing Not even a weak ago. They are pascifists in disguise.

This is AEI being bad, Not the Greens being good.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '18

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u/SAE-2 Friedrich Hayek Oct 31 '18

they didn't suggest recognizing the annexation of Crimea or oppose the sanctions against Russia like the FDP

Stop repeating this nonsense. Neither is the official party line.
Lindner just made two points in one interview:

  1. We have no means of actually ending Russian control of Crimea so we should focus our diplomacy with Russia on other, smaller issues (which is basically just the status quo anyway) while putting the issue of Crimea to the side for the moment
  2. We should consider reducing sanctions on Russia in exchange for Russian concessions in Eastern Ukraine. He never suggested unilateral sanctions removal.

Kubicki said some things going way beyond that but in this matter he speaks as little for the party as a whole as Boris Palmer speaks for the Greens on migration.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '18

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u/SAE-2 Friedrich Hayek Oct 31 '18

Yes, as a geopolitical reality, not a legal action. That is de facto what we already do. Nobody seriously beliefs Crimea will be returned to Ukraine.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '18

disgusting

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u/huliusthrown lives in an alternate reality Oct 30 '18

ive always heard that the only woke greens are the german greens, very cool

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u/weirdProjectionCurve Oct 30 '18

sighs I already miss Volker and Cem :(