By P Gosselin on 11. March 2026
150,000 industrial jobs to be lost this year! 270,000 since 2018
Germany’s rust belt is expanding rapidly. Symbol image generated by Grok AI
The German employer association Gesamtmetall warns of a drastic crisis in the country’s metal and electrical industries, forecasting the loss of up to 150,000 jobs in 2026, reports Blackout News here.
The recent increase in orders is almost entirely driven by the state-funded defense sector. The rest of the core business remains weak and fails to provide long-term stability for the industry.
High energy costs, green bureaucracy to blame
Since 2018, the sector has already lost 270,000 jobs. According to CEO Oliver Zander, the situation can be described as “deindustrialization in time-lapse.” The primary reasons cited are high energy prices, high corporate taxes, rising social security contributions, and excessive bureaucracy in Germany.
VW to lay off 50,000 employees!
To illustrate the depth of the German deindustrialization crisis, the Volkswagen Group has confirmed plans to cut 50,000 jobs in Germany by 2030, reports online RTL here. The information was disclosed in a letter to shareholders by CEO Oliver Blume and within the company’s annual report.
The target for job cuts has been raised from an initially planned 35,000 to 50,000. The decision follows a sharp decline in profits in 2025. Operating profit fell by more than half to €8.9 billion.
The company aims to significantly improve its operating margin to ensure long-term competitiveness. The job cuts will affect the entire Volkswagen Group in Germany, including major subsidiaries such as Audi and Porsche.
Hello from Benicia, California. Fossil fuel production is being shut down across the state of California. Thank you, communists.
Refineries anywhere in the U.S. could be the target of U.S. soil based drone attacks by Iranian Revolutionary Guard cells at any time. For $20K you can buy an Ag sprayer drone at a farm supply store that could be rigged to carry 30 Kg. of C4. A coordinated attempt like 9/11 will make a Cali refinery shutdown seem insignificant.
But, at least, here in California we are reducing the number of targets.
9/11 coordinated attack had 4 targets.
What you are suggesting is much more widespread across thousands of miles not hundreds.
Yes. Sleeper cells. Yes. Cheap drones. Not sure how easy it is to get C4, but C4 is not the only potential warhead.
And it does not need to be exclusively refineries.
Trump will get the blame for starting the war with Iran.
When is someone going to point the finger at the globalists infesting the UN for their Climate Change™ scam.
I do not wish to get into USA politics but, consider what Iran’s stated goals are and what they are doing.
Nuclear/atomic/radiological weapons.
Long ranged delivery systems.
There are other things, too, but those are the worrisome items.
The problem is, no matter how much damage is inflicted, if the will is there, the means will be found to accomplish those goals..
Unless the people of Iran take back their country, this will continue to be a rinse, spin, repeat.
For the record, Iran started the war 47 years ago when they attacked the US embassy (considered sovereign US territory) and held 50 US citizens hostage for 14 months. That was an act of war. Four decades of appeasement did not resolve it.
I do not like war.
This time it looks necessary, much like the response when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
Thanks, Sparta. We must never forget that Iran declared war on us (and Israel) in 1979.
When I saw “Metal Group” in the headline, I immediately thought of Metallica.
“German metal group”
Kreator comes immediately to mind.
Rammstein?
Having your energy system powered by fossil fuels and nuclear energy is the equivalent of adding 12.8% Chromium and 0.24% Carbon to iron. Presto, no more rust belt.
I’ll have a nickel on that too.
This nonsense will continue until citizens fire their leaders, it is all political.
I thought the great EU protectionist walls would save them.
I’d like to see the surveys that show workers supporting Parties and unions for their own demise. It would be fascinating to watch….from a safe distance.