Germany Risks Industrial Crash With Gas Shortage

Germany is facing an industrial crisis with many companies likely to end on the chopping block if Russian gas deliveries remain as low as they are now, Economy Minister Robert Habeck said today in an interview for Der Spiegel, as quoted by Reuters. "Companies would have to stop production, lay off their workers, supply chains would collapse, people would go into debt to pay their heating bills, that people would become poorer," Habeck said, blaming it all on Russia's President, who, according to the German minister, wanted to "undermine our…