[toberoni]

Germany has been lacking a coherent security strategy. They neglected the Bundeswehr for decades and in recent years doubled down on their dependency on Russian fossil fuel (one could argue this was a mutual interdependency as German companies were crucial for the Russian arms industry).

Apart from the far right/left everyone in Germany (that I know) is thankful for America's support in Eastern Europe. Most of these people had no goodwill towards the US military before this war - mainly due to the shameful campaigns in Afghanistan/Iraq. But they also realized that the German/Western European security 'strategy' regarding Russia was a big failure.

[rjzzleep]

If that is a thing that bothers you, one of the people that made sure that the Bundeswehr never recovers was that corrupt von der Leyen. She was MoD, funnelled a bunch of money to her McKinsey son, and then went on to become the head of European Commission. With someone like that at the helm of the EU, you don't need enemies.

The sibling comment mentions Germany's nuclear policy. It's worth noting that Germany at the EU tried to lobby against nuclear to deprive France out of EU support for Green energy. They have an irrational hate for nuclear energy, but it's not limited to nuclear energy. Somehow the once antiwar Green party has become the party of warmongering and coal lobbying.

Germany during the Kohl administration shut killed fibre optics infrastructure projects to fight the influence of public TV and promote cable TV. [1]

So this is at least 4 decades of ideological mismanagement. I'd say the respect for German infrastructure is the work that has been done after the war up until then.

[1] https://netzpolitik.org/2018/danke-helmut-kohl-kabelfernsehe...

[xenonite]

In eastern Germany at least, Telekom laid fibers after 1993.

[jdkee]

Plus Germany's half-century long anti-nuclear stance does them a disservice.

[gsatic]

Nothing is a big failure if the problem is too complex. With such probs, the only success is not getting pulled into a deep hole and wasting resources.

It's not a bad strategy cuz no one believes Ukraine can fight forever without someone else paying the bills. Let the US pay the bills till they can't.

The US is a dysfunctional society, and the strategies that come out of it, are what you expect out of a mental asylum. All this nonsense about sending weaponry over (which takes years of training to use effectively) is one example of the mindlessness.

Also good for Germany that Russia is going to be in such an economic mess after this, the energy from there is going to be very cheap.

[pfdietz]

> what you expect out of a mental asylum

Hundreds of billions of dollars worth of LNG?