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Today marks the start of the routine annual maintenance work on the two lines of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline. Experts are warning that Russia may not turn the pipelines back on after July 21st, which could leave Germany with empty gas storage tanks this winter.

Combined with the expected gas shortage, particularly high energy prices, supply chain problems, inflation, rising grain prices due to drought and war, increasing rent prices, and the insistence on compliance with the debt brake in 2023, it all feels like sitting under the sword of Damocles - just waiting for it to fall.

Fuck the war

It’s now been over 100 days since the war in Ukraine began, and I think a certain war fatigue is setting in. People who aren’t directly involved seem more concerned with local inflation and daily struggles now. That’s understandable. Most of us (myself included) can only handle so many global crises at once: a war with threats of genocide and nuclear escalation, a pandemic that still lingers, a worsening climate crisis. There’s only so much the psyche can absorb before it starts to shut down.