“I find it very unfortunate that this entire discussion has come to focus on who blew [the pipelines] up, rather than who built them,” Heorhii Tykhyi told the BBC, forcefully.
He argued that Nord Stream had “untied Russia’s hands” to go to war, because it no longer needed to transit Ukraine for its gas to reach Europe.
“Did we warn about this? We did,” Tykhyi wanted to know. “Did anyone listen to us? No, no-one did.”
Germany is not a single person, its ruling politicians in the last quarter of a century are all equally spineless. The Greens showed spine but this didn’t seem to bring them sustained support at home.
Even worse, this generation of spineless leaders also got the upper hand throughout Europe, with the EPP and many EU institutions dominated by Germans. Let’s hope this pyrrhic victory sinks them down for good.
The German State sold out to Russia incredibly fast. Schröder deserves to sleep in a Lego bed every night.
Germany has a lot of war guilt to this day. And that’s not bad, per se, but at the same time, it has provided Germany and the German populace with two absolutely fucking massive geopolitical blind spots: Russia and Israel.