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Olaf’s Hindenburg, or how German Chancellor Scholz learned to hate the Russian energy bomb

By Tom Rogan
Published January 6, 2022 8:01pm ET
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Olaf’s Hindenburg, or how German Chancellor Scholz learned to hate the Russian energy bomb
Reverse natural gas flows from Germany toward Russia increased sevenfold on Thursday. Reverse flows entail the redirection of delivered gas back along a transit route. What’s going on? Well, unfortunately, we’re learning how, like Paul von Hindenburg (a German leader who helped Adolf Hitler take power) and his namesake airship, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s appeasement […]

Reverse natural gas flows from Germany toward Russia increased sevenfold on Thursday. Reverse flows entail the redirection of delivered gas back along a transit route.

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