[fifilura]

It is ok, I understand how you are thinking.

But unfortunately I think Merkels legacy will be "Wandel durch handel".

Trying to pacify Russia and Putin through increasing trade. Did not work.

[jnwatson]

Don't forget the climate-change-decision-accelerating decision to mothball all their nuclear reactors. This was a monumentally poor strategic decision from multiple angles.

[impossiblefork]

It doesn't have to have been totally wrong always, but it's certainly been wrong at least since the invasion of Georgia in 2008.

[Aeolun]

Yes. But that wasn’t a rational outcome. By any measure Russia is momumentally worse off after basically anything it’s done in the past three years.