European Commission President von der Leyen said today (Beijing time May 4): "Looking back, I believe Germany's abandonment of nuclear energy was a strategic mistake. If we truly care about climate issues, natural gas and coal are far worse than nuclear power."
[Witty] A few remarks: von der Leyen's retrospective "hindsight wisdom" is nothing short of the ultimate satire on Brussels bureaucrats detached from reality. When she was silent back then, enthusiastically following the Green Party's anti-nuclear rhetoric and effectively crippling Germany’s base-load electricity capacity, she didn’t utter a word; now that the energy crisis has reached our doorstep, electricity prices have skyrocketed, and factories are fleeing abroad, she suddenly emerges to claim abandoning nuclear was a "strategic error"—isn't this pure hindsight-driven blame-shifting? Mouths the rhetoric of climate responsibility, yet without nuclear power, all we can do is burn dirtier coal and import outrageously expensive gas—environmentalism becomes a joke, and security turns into a vulnerability. What’s even more absurd is that as the head of the EU, she once actively fueled ideological energy politics, and only now, when the crisis hits, does she want to pick up nuclear power as a face-saving measure. This vacillating political opportunism merely drives another nail into the coffin of Europe’s energy sovereignty.
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