{"id":11800,"date":"2023-09-26T16:49:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T16:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11800"},"modified":"2023-09-26T16:49:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T16:49:46","slug":"putin-exposes-the-myth-of-austrias-victimhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11800","title":{"rendered":"Putin exposes the myth of Austria\u2019s victimhood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;Austria\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/austria-slow-effort-end-russia-energy-addiction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">continued reliance<\/a>&nbsp;on Russian natural gas, which accounts for about 55 percent of the country\u2019s overall consumption. Though that\u2019s down from 80 percent at the beginning of 2022, Austria, in contrast to most other EU countries, remains dependent on Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Confront an Austrian government official with this fact and you\u2019ll be met with a lengthy whinge over how the country, one of the world\u2019s richest, is struggling to cope with the economic crosswinds triggered by the war. That will be followed by a litany of examples of how a host of other EU countries is guilty of much more egregious behavior vis a vis Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The unspoken, if inevitable, conclusion: the real victim here is Austria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The myth of Austrian victimhood has long been a&nbsp;<em>leitmotif<\/em>&nbsp;of the country\u2019s bilious tabloids, which serve readers regular helpings of all the ways in which the outside world, especially Brussels and Washington, undermines them.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;most Austrians only see the upsides to neutrality; yet that\u2019s only because the West has refused to impose any costs on the country for freeriding.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/its-time-to-end-austrias-gemutlichkeit\/\">https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/its-time-to-end-austrias-gemutlichkeit\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Austria\u2019s continued reliance on Russian natural gas, which accounts for about 55 percent of the country\u2019s overall consumption. Though that\u2019s down from 80 percent at the beginning of 2022, Austria, in contrast to most other EU countries, remains dependent on Russia.<br \/>\nConfront an Austrian government official with this fact and you\u2019ll be met with a lengthy whinge over how the country, one of the world\u2019s richest, is struggling to cope with the economic crosswinds triggered by the war. That will be followed by a litany of examples of how a host of other EU countries is guilty of much more egregious behavior vis a vis Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>The unspoken, if inevitable, conclusion: the real victim here is Austria.<\/p>\n<p>The myth of Austrian victimhood has long been a leitmotif of the country\u2019s bilious tabloids, which serve readers regular helpings of all the ways in which the outside world, especially Brussels and Washington, undermines them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;most Austrians only see the upsides to neutrality; yet that\u2019s only because the West has refused to impose any costs on the country for freeriding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/its-time-to-end-austrias-gemutlichkeit\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1945,314,1234,316,315,226],"class_list":["post-11800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-austria","tag-international-relations","tag-natural-gas","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11801,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11800\/revisions\/11801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}