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Previously: Merkel Now Claiming She Tried to Prevent the Ukraine Conflict
Hohols are stupid.
They can’t understand simple things, and they just hate everyone.
RT:
Kiev has criticized claims by Angela Merkel, Germany’s Chancellor from 2005 to 2021, who said this week that she’d “tried with what was at my disposal to prevent” the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. The top adviser to Zelensky, Mikhail Podoliak, accused Merkel of “making excuses” for her own policy failures.
“Former Chancellor Merkel, who has made Europe totally dependent on Russian energy, makes excuses: ‘I did everything possible to prevent Russia from starting a war, and that is why I got… Russian cheap gas.’ Fantastic. After all, the war did not start, right?” Podoliak wrote on Twitter.
Merkel’s purported desire to obtain said “cheap Russian gas” has ultimately resulted in “destroyed Ukrainian territories and hundreds of thousands of innocent Ukrainian lives,” Podoliak went on. “If you cannot correct the mistakes of the past, just stop making excuses and encouraging the aggressor,” he added.
I don’t even understand what he’s trying to communicate. The entire premise of the post-war order was that economic interdependence would prevent war.
Hitler’s entire confidence in escalating WWII was based on the fact that the Treaty of Versailles forced Germany to build its own totally self-sustaining economy.
Making a huge part of the Russian economy dependent on gas exports to Germany was, by all current logic and understanding of geopolitics, an anti-war action.
When Putin realized war was inevitable, between 2014 and 2020, he started immediately trying to shrink the dependence on German gas purchases to a smaller part of the Russian economy, which proves as a matter of fact that Merkel’s gas deals were deescalation measures.
Merkel could be retconning why she did the deals. My understanding is that they were related to global warming theory. But what she said was coherent.
All of the analysis of the US bombing of the Nord Stream says that it was designed to make any reconciliation between Russia and Germany impossible, because it would in theory have no benefit to either country.
As Donald Trump pointed out at the time, Merkel’s decision to tie the European economy so closely to Russia while NATO was pushing so hard for war did not make any sense. But that is a separate issue, and Merkel’s fault would be in not addressing the warlike stance against Russia (or maybe she believed in an inevitable regime change in Moscow that would not interfere with the transfer of gas – it is probably something along those lines, and there was possibly a logic that the gas deal would make regime change more likely somehow).
At this point of global technological development, there is not a better way to prevent war than through economic interdependence. To publicly deny the validity of this is weird, and makes it look like the leadership of the Ukraine lacks the most basic understanding of the way the world works.
This probably does not do much to build confidence.
