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🇩🇪 THE GREEN DEAL THAT ATE GERMANY Germany tried to save the planet - and accidentally torched its own economy. Industrial output’s in freefall, machinery orders down 19%, and the engineers who once built Europe’s miracle are now building résumés. From steel to semiconductors, the machine that powered the EU’s prosperity is sputtering - and the only thing growing is the spin. Berlin’s think tanks still preach salvation through “Green Tech,” but behind the PowerPoint slides lies a subsidized graveyard of busted heat pumps, idle factories, and ghost towns where workers once made BMW parts. The former VW boss calls it what it is: a “job massacre.” Energy prices that rival art theft, bureaucracy thick enough to choke an industrial giant, and an ideology that bans combustion before it builds batteries. The Green Deal was meant to be transformation; it’s starting to look like euthanasia. Municipal finances are collapsing, mayors are begging for federal oxygen, and the DIW economists keep waving incense over the corpse, calling it transition. The reckoning won’t come with protests - it’ll come with silence. Plants shutting down one by one until the “German Model” becomes a museum exhibit. The tragedy? They didn’t lose to China or AI. They lost to false belief - in a fantasy of green perpetual motion. Source: ZeroHedge