by Monica Showalter
How. They. Laughed.
Remember this disgusting scene at the United Nations in 2018, when President Trump warned Germany not to scrap their nuclear energy?
“Germany will become totally dependent on Russian energy if it does not immediately change course. Here in the Western Hemisphere, we are committed to maintaining our independence from the encroachment of expansionist foreign powers. It has been the formal policy of our country since President Monroe …,” Trump said.
The giggling from the German delegation at the United Nations was amazing; just look at the screwed-up face of that nasty chick on the left:
Now they’re not laughing so much anymore:
According to the Turkish Anadolu Agency:
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called Berlin’s exit from nuclear energy a “serious strategic mistake” and criticized previous governments for hastily shutting down the country’s last atomic reactors.
Speaking at a business conference in Saxony-Anhalt late Wednesday, Merz directed sharp criticism at the energy policies of his predecessors, including former Chancellor Angela Merkel, for creating the world’s costliest energy transition.
“It was a serious strategic mistake to exit nuclear energy,” Merz said. “If you were going to do it, you should have at least kept the last remaining nuclear power plants in Germany on the grid three years ago, so that we would have had the same electricity generation capacity.”
He added: “We’re now making the most expensive energy transition in the entire world. I don’t know of a second country that makes it as difficult and as expensive for itself as Germany does. We set ourselves a goal that we now have to correct, but we simply don’t have enough energy generation capacity.”
The net result is that Germany pays the highest energy prices in Europe, a victim of its own delusions about the capabilities of green energy, and its own Trump derangement syndrome. It was funny, wasn’t it, until the lights went off.
According to DW, which reports that Germans now pay the highest electricity prices in Europe:
In 2024, an average of 59% of Germany’s electricity was generated from renewable sources. But during the winter darkness, this output is far from adequate. December 12, 2024, marked a low point, when only 18% of Germany’s electricity needs were met by renewables. The rest had to be generated by coal- and gas-fired power plants, and electricity imports from neighboring EU countries.
That expensive imported electricity comes mostly from France, which, voilà, produces it from nuclear energy.
The EU has a common electricity market. This means that during periods of high wind and sunshine, Germany is able to export energy, while during periods of low wind and sunshine, it increasingly has to import energy. Most of the electricity that Germany purchased in 2024 came from France, which meets 70% of its energy needs with nuclear power that is available throughout the year.
Seems the French were never stupid enough to get rid of their nuclear power plants or for that matter, their coal plants. But Germany did, in the name of virtue-signaling their greenness, and now gets its same nuclear energy in imported form, instead of the domestically produced nuclear power they had seven years ago. Talk about flushing money down the toilet.
Now they’re scrambling to reverse course, with zero planning for their energy needs having been taken into account. Somehow, Trump was right all along as they laughed up their sleeves, still insist on being considered Our Moral Leader, and at this point are experiencing schadenfreude.
How does anyone get that stupid?
Trump is having the last laugh.