Logically, not sure why those countries would be obliged to indulge a corrosive terrorist empire that has never stopped trying to conquer them. But - sure. The degree to which European "leaders" have been clearly corrupted and bribed by the FSB over the last century is just mind-boggling.

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[–] christianhawkins@feddit.org 38 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And Merkel bears no fault in this I suppose?

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Fucking Merkel. Now is the time for unity against the invader. Not finger pointing at allies.

And Merkel bears no fault in this I suppose?

Seriously. And since Merkel got the fingers pointing, let's talk about Merkel. Merkel was instrumental in getting Germany hooked on Russian gas. They even publicly laughed at people pointing it out. Merkel, when even Trump makes you look bad, you are making some horrible decisions.

Then when Russia invaded Ukraine for the second time, what did Germany do? Well, they did they only thing they could do as they setup no alternative plan: they shoveled money into Russia's coffers, funding their invasion of Ukraine. Took them years to fix this issue.

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

The theory was that they could entrench Russia in the EU economy making them more likely to cooperate and compete economically than militarily.

That obviously fucking failed and she and those like her should be doing these media tours only with apologies for their failed ideas.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 31 points 6 days ago

Oh my god Merkel. Shut the fuck up. You literally fucking created this situation by digging your heels in back in 2014 and refusing to support or endorse anything more meaningful than a slap on the wrist.

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

coming from people who made nordstream a thing due to this mistake of a policy

at least it's not schroeder saying that

[–] TwinkleToes@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Schroder is a little more DGAF about his blatant on-the-take corruption. Merkel tries to at least appear as a politican with German interests in her heart.

[–] trajekolus@piefed.social 3 points 5 days ago

Yes, he is very corrupt and treasonous, whereas she was naive with Putin and now tries to protect her legacy. If protecting her legacy is what she's now trying to do, it is very not working

[–] abc@feddit.uk 8 points 5 days ago

Whatever happened to ‘people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones’?

[–] Skiluros@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Fucking cunt. Always white washing and enabling russian genocidal imperialism.

I hope she gets Alzheimer's and/or ends up in a russian internment camp.

[–] TwinkleToes@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

People tend to have endless capability to rationalize what they did was correct.