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Trump is a racist prick. But Merkel’s world view is what put Putin in power.
Her ignoring the rise of Russia in exchange for cheap oil and gas set the stage for the Ukraine invasion. Her underinvestment in the military and shuttering Nuclear energy plants across Germany were strategic blunders that Europe is going to pay for.
Wasn't it part of normalising relations with russia post cold war, hoping they'd behave fucking normally instead of the crap they're doing now?
It was… but Russian has invaded or conducted multiple military operations in many different countries since Putin came to power…
After say the first 5 maybe the West should have recognized that Russia wasn’t going to be the partner they wanted them to be…
If your best bet is hoping someone is going to be on their best behavior with no real alternative, especially on a national scale, your plans are bad and you should feel bad.
The plan was always that a good economic partnership would prevent any military confrontations. What was never really considered was Ukraine, another energy producing country, leaving Russia's sphere of influence in favour of a closer relationship with the EU which made it competition to Russia's oil and gas industry.
The whole thing blew up when rich corrupt people had their monopoly threatened.
Vastly onesided, especially the shutdown of the nuclear plants. They only accounted for 11% of electrical energy production during peak activity. I don't see how you could have convinced people to build 10x more nuclear plants to achieve net zero, given the huge prior resistance i.e. "Atomkraft, nein Danke". I agree to the blunder in so far that she failed to accelarate the transirion to renewables at the begin of the millenia. Which was probably no realistic option due to internal party resistance.
Yeah, but one side bad, other side good!