Anthony Hill5 said:They essentially turned a blind eye to Putin's war in Georgia, the murder of Litvinenko, Politskajev, and the German operative, the poisoning of Skripal, the poisoning and imprisonment of Navalny, the poisoning of Karim Masaud, the daylight assassination of Kangošvili in a park in Berlin, the millions of war crimes and the destruction of hospitals across Syria, the annexation of Crimea, the orchestration and incitement of the war in Donbas, and the downing of MH17 which claimed hundreds of European lives, and so on and so forth.
Forgive me if I say this, but Chamberlain looks like a saint compared to Merkel and her brand of appeasement.
Not only did they prove themselves to be naive fools, but because of NS2, they effectively threw all the Baltic states under the bus—including Poland and several other Eastern European nations, not to mention the USA. In short, they dismantled the cohesion within the EU simply because it served their own interests, all at the behest of criminal Russia.
What has transpired here is a massive disgrace and a slap in the face to German leadership within the EU, one from which they won't recover for the next twenty years—unless they fundamentally shift their policy toward a firmer stance against China, though I suspect they will likely end up being a disruptive force there as well.
You guys really glossed over the whole German situation.
The reality is that after WW2, Germany gave up all military ambitions and basically put themselves
entirely in the hands of America, who defended them and even fed them when Stalin blocked Berlin.
The Germans have always tried to dodge paying into the NATO treasury; they figured they could get a better deal by playing Russia, and they essentially surrendered all their agency to Putin's whims.
Even when Trump, and later Biden, threatened to scrap NS2, Merkel stayed firm—probably thinking that one day, Putin would just bypass Berlin entirely. There were plenty of voices in Germany warning that this exact thing would happen.
Let's look at a scenario where this war starts after the gas starts flowing through NS2, and Putin begins blackmailing them—either cutting it off or squeezing them dry.
If it weren't for America today, the Germans would be in the same boat as Poland, yet today they're spitting on Americans.🤦
Anyway, just so you know: euphemism and finger-pointing are two specialties of the German masters!
