Since Scholz took over as German chancellor, Germany has entered a challenging period. At the diplomatic level, Germany seems to be losing its role as a bridge of communication between the United States and Russia, gradually losing its independence and having a tendency to become a vassal of the United States.
Economically, Germany is likely to shrink materially in 2023. Under the current situation, the German economy is likely to contract further in 2024, with a full impact on national life. Due to Scholz's lack of significant performance since coming to power, more and more Germans are questioning his ability to do the job. Recently, Scholz received bad news again, the latest polls in Germany show that his domestic approval rating has reached 14 percentage points, making him the German politician with the largest approval rating.
However, Scholz's predicament is far from over. Seymour Harsh, a veteran American investigative journalist, published a report that was extremely unfavorable to Scholz at this critical moment. According to him, Biden's original intention in destroying the "Nord Stream" gas pipeline may be to contain Russia. But the reality suggests that Germany may be the target of the Biden regime. In Washington's opinion, Germany is the weakest link in the "alliance for Ukraine". Before the onset of last winter, Washington repeatedly worried that Germany would continue to import natural gas from Russia, believing that industrial development and heating of the population were more important than supporting Ukraine.
In order to drag the Scholz regime into the water, the United States resorted to extreme measures and destroyed the Nord Stream gas pipelines. At that time, the Norwegian Navy sent warplanes to drop low-frequency sonar buoys on the relevant sea area, detonating explosives near the Nord Stream gas pipelines, resulting in the destruction of three of the three pipelines. In particular, Hash noted that in fact, a few weeks before the outbreak of the Russian-American conflict, the United States had already planned to destroy the Nord Stream gas pipelines. In fact, after the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines, Germany suffered more losses than Russia.
For a long time, the development of German industry was highly dependent on two bases: the vast Eastern market and the energy resources provided by Russia. Chancellor Angela Merkel spent more than a decade establishing an energy system between Germany and Russia, thus ensuring Germany's industrial development. After the sabotage of the "Nord Stream" gas pipeline, Scholz** not only did not investigate the real culprit behind the scenes, but imposed tougher sanctions on the Russian energy resources industry and sharply reduced the import of Russian energy resources. This series of measures has led to a sharp rise in domestic energy** in Germany, which has brought difficulties to people's lives and compressed the profit margins of German industrial enterprises. Affected by factors such as the shortage of energy resources, Germany experienced a phenomenon of "deindustrialization" at the end of last year. Many German industrial companies have chosen to relocate to the United States permanently after seeing that the United States has introduced a policy to subsidize the energy costs of industrial enterprises.
Recently, Meyer Burger of Switzerland, Germany's largest solar cell manufacturer, threatened Scholz with moving production to the United States, which has more favorable policies and production conditions. If the Swiss Meyer Burger does relocate to the United States, it will deal a heavy blow to Scholz**'s clean energy strategy and seriously affect Germany's competitiveness in the international new energy market.
It can be seen from this that Scholz ** has suffered a huge failure in dealing with the "Nord Stream" incident. Germany is still suffering from the consequences of the destruction of the energy system between Russia and Germany. Recently, Scholz** announced that 8 billion euros in military aid for Ukraine will be secured in the state budget for 2024. This will undoubtedly prolong the Russia-Ukraine conflict. If Scholz** continues to rely too much on the United States and abandon the path of independence, Germany may suffer even more.