My country is extremely dependent on the US, and we tend to do whatever the US tells us in trade relations. Russia was a huge trading partner for us, especially for energy but of course we jumped on board with sanctions when we were told to. Things are already pretty grim this year. Electricity costs have almost doubled across my country, outside one area that has maintained their nuclear power plants, and we have had over 20,000 people hospitalized for heat stroke this summer. Annually we have over 1000 people die to heat stroke, mostly among eldery who didn’t want to use A/C at home to save money.
I actually saw some people suggesting that people dying from heatstroke would help with the “aging population epidemic”. Absolute ghouls.
On one hand, the US collapsing would probably mean we collapse too, but longterm if we still somehow exist we would probably be better off decoupled.
The collapse is happening in real time in the global north. For the past 10 years living standards have slowly been dwindling, in some places faster than other.
Well, makes sense, they’re very close. We don’t really have the real estate to provide many other types of power, and with most of the country decomissioning their nuclear plants we are extremely reliant on outside sources.
My country is extremely dependent on the US, and we tend to do whatever the US tells us in trade relations. Russia was a huge trading partner for us, especially for energy but of course we jumped on board with sanctions when we were told to. Things are already pretty grim this year. Electricity costs have almost doubled across my country, outside one area that has maintained their nuclear power plants, and we have had over 20,000 people hospitalized for heat stroke this summer. Annually we have over 1000 people die to heat stroke, mostly among eldery who didn’t want to use A/C at home to save money.
I actually saw some people suggesting that people dying from heatstroke would help with the “aging population epidemic”. Absolute ghouls.
On one hand, the US collapsing would probably mean we collapse too, but longterm if we still somehow exist we would probably be better off decoupled.
The collapse is happening in real time in the global north. For the past 10 years living standards have slowly been dwindling, in some places faster than other.
are you from germany?
Japan
Lol wtf bro… Didn’t know so many countries are dependent on cheap Russian gas.
Well, makes sense, they’re very close. We don’t really have the real estate to provide many other types of power, and with most of the country decomissioning their nuclear plants we are extremely reliant on outside sources.
I heard you guys are transitioning to Canadian LNG by the end of this year
That is the plan, some Japanese companies (I think Mitsubishi) own a large stake in Canadian LNG.
We’re also building more and more coal plants to replace nuclear power, which don’t even get me started on.