Effects of the war on construction costs and interest rates?

I didn’t have high expectations for the new government. The job they have to do now is already difficult for old, experienced people. Here are newcomers who haven’t even been able to build a functioning team. I wouldn’t want to trade places with either Scholz or Baerbock. But yes, I miss Merkel and wonder if she might have managed it. However, I assume that she is helping Scholz and also Baerbock behind the scenes. I can’t imagine that she now says it’s none of her business and leaves the newcomers out in the cold. What really annoys me is our ex-chancellor. The one who threw in the towel in the middle of the legislative period because his buddy gave him a better job. Not even now is he man enough to choose a side.

Dear moderator, I will not comment further on the topic. This does not belong in the forum anyway.

However, I want to emphasize that these are not conspiracy theories. My wife is Russian, I have many relatives, acquaintances, and contacts both in Russia and in Ukraine itself. In addition, I speak Russian more or less well. But everyone should form their own opinion, from wherever. For that, we have our well-known quality media.

I also have some friends of Russian origin - although probably from a somewhat younger generation. Strangely, they tell a very different story and can only shake their heads about their parents and grandparents, who have the propaganda machinery running all day and actually believe all that nonsense.

A Ukrainian friend and a Ukrainian coworker, both with family there - you can imagine how they are doing right now. I can assure you, at least from those two: They feel Ukrainian, not Russian, and do not want to belong to Russia.

Now even the house building forum has become a platform for conspiracy theories... Oh man. I also speak Russian, my grandpa comes from Königsberg/East Prussia. Does that make me an expert? The moderator would be wise to shut this down, otherwise it will get out of hand. Still, here are my 50 cents on the topic: It is WAR! In the middle of Europe, fathers, brothers, uncles, nephews of families and women are dying. That justifies nothing! Then it doesn't matter at all if 80% of Ukrainians want to go home to a dictator who, in the best tsar manner, tramples on any democracy to stay in power! And it also doesn’t matter if you have been lighting fires in a bear’s den for years. Nothing, absolutely nothing justifies a war! People are dying!

Not even now is he man enough to choose a side.

Off Topic: Maybe because he knows both sides. Or because it’s not just black and white. I myself struggle, with relatives in Ukraine, but I think that politicians on both sides have failed and/or wanted to fail. Would it really have been so hard to give Russia a treaty that Ukraine would not be admitted to NATO for the next 80 (?) years? Would that have helped? I don’t know.

The topic of NATO and EU expansion into Russia’s neighborhood is certainly important. I would prefer Russia to be in the EU and in NATO.

@Piniponk for me the ex-chancellor is cherry-picking

Many Ukrainians have already fled or are working for dumping wages in Poland or Slovakia.

Why not "at home" in the promised land Russia?