[throwaway123199]

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[impossiblefork]

Once Azerbaijan starts up their wars again though, all the pipelines are presumably going away, so even though the Ukrainians have obviously screwed you, it's far from certain they'll really gain that much.

[lupusreal]

Germany really should have anticipated this sort of thing happening sooner or later, but German politicians chose instead to bury their heads in the sand by buying into the whole "end of history" narrative. Making their economy so dependent on buying energy from Russia is only one manifestation of this. Another has been allowing their military to atrophy, to the point where they can no longer pull their own weight in NATO to present a credible deterrence to Russian aggression. Germany is lucky to be friendly with so many other nations that aren't run by such foolish people; Poland, Sweden, etc. At the same time, Germany is now in an uncomfortable position with America because of Germany's own poor planning.

[ajsnigrutin]

Isn't that the whole point of nato? Keeping germany down and russia out?

The last time someone messed with them so hard, they elected that austrian painter dude, who then killed hitler in the end... and now EU is wondering, why the germans are turning towards AfD.