Quote (ferdia @ 27 Nov 2024 20:17)
not sure, i mean they have allowed themselves to be castrated ever since angela fell off the map, which is a bit ironic. anyway, no indication of common sense has been seen.
That's actually not true at all. The current ruling Social Democrats (SPD) have historically been comparatively Russia-friendly and less reflexively "transatlanticist" than Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU). In 2022, Germany kept buying Russian gas until they cut off the supply at some point in late summer. Merz, the new leader of the CDU, wanted the country to voluntarily boycott Russian gas in the spring of 2022, which would have been disastrous (our storages were near empty and we desperately needed to buy time). Scholz told him to fuck off. Conversely, a state PM from the SPD was caught actively trying to help Russia evade sanctions so that NS2 could proceed.
Throughout this whole conflict, Germany has taken FAR from the most hawkish position on Russia. Heck, even the Biden admin wasn't super hawkish. The order, from most to least hawkish, goes something like this:
Ukraine > Poland > Baltics > UK > US > Czechia > France > Germany > Italy > Austria > Romania > Slovakia > Turkey > Hungary.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Nov 27 2024 01:37pm