[Melio]

It's a different philosophy.

German is trying to be diplomatic and logical about it and not a military bully like the USA.

All your trump stuff doesn't matter, we are not the USA. We do not want to be proud Germans having dead relatives dying in useless wars.

Putin's attack on kiev is not just a bad day because of the death but also because the hopes of having proper diplomatic talks with Putin failed.

It's still a good thing that we tried.

[bluecalm]

That's too naive. How can you try be logical and diplomatic when you know you're building dependent relationship with a dictator who already had several wars under his belt. I mean, it was opportunistic, cheap gas is nice and Germany is far away from Russian border, some countries are closer but you know, you can always build a pipeline or two around those. Not your problem afterall.

I just can't believe anyone could eat the diplomatic and logical narrative up.

[Melio]

There is nothing to 'eat up'.

Germany is not stupid.