The one thing I didn't see in this article was any mention of the green movement in Germany. Even the so-called "conservative" Christian Democrats who gave Germany Angela Merkel were all-in for this. Germany has fully embraced the narrative that the world is going to end because of the magic molecule CO2 and have committed more than any other country to remove it from their economy.

They spent an atrocious amount of money building renewables under the Energiewende program. It wasn't nearly enough to meet demand but it resulted in sky-high upfront costs and crippling electricity costs on the back end. It's killing their economy. Industry can't run like that. First, the cost of energy is simply too high and second, the renewables cannot reliably deliver it in the quantities needed to run industrial infrastructure. It has been a complete disaster. They're tearing up their land to build all of this stuff. In fact, they're cutting down 1,000-year-old strands of the Black Forest to make room for windmills, and even some of the environmentalists are looking at this baffled. The result was that they slowed the push on renewables, went back to coal, and built the Nord Stream pipelines like sane, sensible people.

They were met with huge push back from the enviro-cultists. CDU lost power and now the Green party is part of the ruling coalition government. They're scheduling the shut downs of their last nuclear plants, and doubling down on the push to renewables. Prior to Ukraine's invasion, they were still all-in on the LNG pipeline Nord Stream 2 (~50% the CO2 emissions as coal), but they stopped it after political pressure built at home against anything Russian.

The point is that this analysis doesn't deal at all with the "green" issue. German power in the EU is based on its industrial might and financial position relative to the other EU countries. It's busy destroying that in the name of "saving the planet." No matter how much power the German government thinks it has to dictate its own destiny, the powers that be control the sheeple, and the sheeple still think there's an energy Santa Claus.

Ukraine isn't about Germany. Germany's a speed bump here. It's role is to do what it's NATO ally with the guns (that's the Biden regime) tells it to do. Right now, for its defenders, it's about preserving all of the crime, racketeering, and other filth that goes on clandestinely in Ukraine for people like the Ruthless Hungarian Bond Villain. For Putin, his interest is more complex, but I've type enough already.