#energydependence — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #energydependence, aggregated by home.social.
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Berlin Doubles Down on Costly Green Policies with Stricter Emissions Law
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EU Avoids Talk About Energy Emergency
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The Great Rebalancing: How Europe Chose Dependence Over Resilience
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From Moscow to Washington: Brussels’ New Energy Dependency
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"Over the past few years, Mexico has clashed repeatedly with the US over a litany of issues, from USAID and NED’s funding of domestic political opposition groups to Washington’s attempts to prevent Mexico from banning GMO corn for human consumption; to Mexico’s refusal to support project Ukraine or US-EU sanctions against Russia despite concerted pressure; to presidential candidate Donald Trump’s threats to send kill teams to Mexico to take out the country’s drug kingpins — a threat that should not be taken lightly given US-Mexican history.
This list is certain to grow over the coming months, as the US seeks to impose its will on its southern neighbour, locking it into an increasingly stifling and abusive relationship. But as things currently stand, there is not much that Mexico will be able to do about it.
Given the scale of its economic dependence on the US, which is largely the intended consequence of NAFTA and US-friendly economic policies pursued by generations of Mexican leaders, some on the CIA’s payroll; its geographic location — “so far from God, so close to the United States”, as Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz is alleged to have once said; and the very real risk of retaliation from the US, the Sheinbaum government is unlikely to take up Moscow’s offer of energy assistance. For the same reasons, it is unlikely to accept any of the invitations to join the BRICS-plus association or China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
As Russian Embassy spokesman Andrei Zemskiy recently acknowledged, the USMCA makes it much more difficult for Mexico to join the BRICS — a goal that Russia is openly pursuing.
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Mexico’s economy is simply too integrated with the US and Canada’s for it to be able to join the BRICS." -
"Over the past few years, Mexico has clashed repeatedly with the US over a litany of issues, from USAID and NED’s funding of domestic political opposition groups to Washington’s attempts to prevent Mexico from banning GMO corn for human consumption; to Mexico’s refusal to support project Ukraine or US-EU sanctions against Russia despite concerted pressure; to presidential candidate Donald Trump’s threats to send kill teams to Mexico to take out the country’s drug kingpins — a threat that should not be taken lightly given US-Mexican history.
This list is certain to grow over the coming months, as the US seeks to impose its will on its southern neighbour, locking it into an increasingly stifling and abusive relationship. But as things currently stand, there is not much that Mexico will be able to do about it.
Given the scale of its economic dependence on the US, which is largely the intended consequence of NAFTA and US-friendly economic policies pursued by generations of Mexican leaders, some on the CIA’s payroll; its geographic location — “so far from God, so close to the United States”, as Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz is alleged to have once said; and the very real risk of retaliation from the US, the Sheinbaum government is unlikely to take up Moscow’s offer of energy assistance. For the same reasons, it is unlikely to accept any of the invitations to join the BRICS-plus association or China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
As Russian Embassy spokesman Andrei Zemskiy recently acknowledged, the USMCA makes it much more difficult for Mexico to join the BRICS — a goal that Russia is openly pursuing.
(...)
Mexico’s economy is simply too integrated with the US and Canada’s for it to be able to join the BRICS." -
On a #PolarRES call with collaborators in #Ukraine who are joining with power for their computer + internet only from their recently installed #SolarPanels.
#DistributedPower from #Renewables is also a way of building societal #Robustness as well as reducing #EnergyDependence on enemy regimes.
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On a #PolarRES call with collaborators in #Ukraine who are joining with power for their computer + internet only from their recently installed #SolarPanels.
#DistributedPower from #Renewables is also a way of building societal #Robustness as well as reducing #EnergyDependence on enemy regimes.
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#Qatar is to supply liquefied #naturalgas (#LNG) to #Germany under a 15-year deal as the #European economic powerhouse scrambles to replace #Russian #gas supplies cut during the ongoing war in #Ukraine
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/qatar-germany-sign-liquefied-natural-gas-deal-amid-94131923 #energycrisis #energydependence #UkraineRussia