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Originally Posted by CroFlames
Memo to Germany: Russia hates you. Always has. Stop trying to appease them so they sell you gas. Use your industrial might and rain some whoop-ass down on the invading forces and get them out of Ukraine.
Then we can talk about energy security.
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Them stalling delivery on IRIS SLM missile defense systems that were promised in June and blocking other countries from exporting their Leopard tanks to Ukraine is a slap in the face of Ukrainians fighting and directly contributed to the civilian deaths from Russian missile attacks on Ukrainian cities and the long delay of the Ukrainian counter-offensives.
Like I can kinda understand the whole "tie your economy to Russia" in the hopes of moderating Russia's aggressive tendencies as an economic mutually assured destruction thing w/ the pipelines and initial reluctance to deliver heavy weapons, but it well past that point where any reasonable person would have reversed course on this. Negotiations while Putin is in power is impossible.