44 minutes agoGerman Foreign Minister: If we stop Russian oil today, we can't move tomorrow.
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbox justified Berlin's decision not to ban Russian oil imports in retaliation for aggression in Ukraine, saying it would push the German state into chaos, which would be a victory and not a defeat for the Kremlin. “If Germany believed [...]
If Germany believed that a ban on imports would end the war, it would. But she doesn't believe”, the top diplomat said.
Germany is dependent on Russia after it imports one third of the oil, much more dependent on the US, which earlier announced an embargo on Russian energy imports.
If we were to stop it immediately, tomorrow we could not move to Germany”, she said.
Baherbox added that the primary workers such as teachers or nurses could not come to work and that the current would be a problem.
The United States announced on Tuesday that they are imposing an embargo on Russian oil and gas imports, while Britain said it would gradually remove Russian energy imports by the end of 2022, further increasing pressure on Moscow to retaliate against aggression in Ukraine.
