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Meanwhile Germany fought for Gas turbine return from Canada (breaking embargoes) and putins own boy scholz personally and publicly advocated for removal of sanctions from Kaliningrad https://www.politico.eu/article/olaf-scholz-urges-free-trans...

Social Democratic Party - best politicians money can buy!

Good. Can we now please kindly donate everything that shoots to the Ukrainians so that they can get rid of the cancer that sits in Moscow?

Cant we just declare our full support and promise a bunch of stuff, but then stall indefinitely? Asking for a friend from Germany.

Isn't this a "worst case scenario" for Europe? How did the Russians convince Germany to make their economic machine dependent on Russian-supplied natural gas?

Perhaps this is a chess move.

I think the answer to your question is "gradually, by being reliable for decades". The contracts in question were signed in the seventies.

Germany's general foreign policy may be described as paying for things to achieve mutual dependance. Having Germany depend on Russa and Russia really depend on Germany would be a classic German move. Note that when Russia wanted to bypass Ukraine and Belarus, it somehow ended up building two pipelines to Germany, none to Italy, none to India and a remarkable small one to China. That second pipeline to Germany looks like a bit of a WTF if you ask me.