Europe Is Shutting Down
As the recession deepens in Europe, and as the price of natural gas continues to weigh on businesses, industrial facilities across Europe are doing what at one time would have been unthinkable: shutting down production entirely.
Most recently, glass manufacturer Duralex announced that it had completed the idling of its only furnace on November 1. This step had been announced back in September, and has finally finished.
The time between the announcement and its implementation is explained by the complexity of the operation: in theory, a glass furnace never stops at the risk of being damaged.
"The oven will not be stopped purely and simply, but we will keep it at temperature so that we can restart it,” said Mr Llacuna.
However, he said that "zero risk does not exist in this area".
The lack of “zero risk” to idling the furnace means there is a possibility the furnace will be damaged and may not work properly when the time comes to restart it.
Such extreme measures by European industry highlight the brutal irony of the sanctions on Russian natural gas: in the long term, they are likely to succeed in crippling Russia’s energy sector (Gazprom has already seen gas exports plunge 43%), but there is a rising probability this will happen because of the damage done to Europe’s economy—if Europe is no longer able to buy Russian natural gas, for the most part Russia will be unable to sell natural gas with their current infrastructures.
Seems like that was the plan; the Empire wants to shut down all competition and all independent thought/economies.
I am beginning to think there is nothing ironic regarding the sanctions on Russia or the unbridled support for all-our war in the Ukraine - irony requires an unexpected / unintended outcome. More and more, it looks like the outcome (the destruction of Western Industrial Society, the destruction of the economic and societal structure which ensures peaceful relations with our fellow citizens as well as between nations) was the desired one.
Haven’t the self-proclaimed “environmentally-conscious” been demanding an end to Capitalism and a reduction in global population by 80-90% (in order to “protect the climate”) for the past several decades?
What better way to achieve that outcome than to foment war & chaos, the destruction of civil society as we know it?