Since you are trying to make a point here with "Germany", let me tell you a few details.
Luckily, Oskar Lafontaine has said so many stupid things over the last decade, that nobody is taking him seriously anymore in Germany. Even his own party, the far left, isn't comfortable that roughly 50% of the party are Putin apologists, like Lafontaine.
Lafontaine and his Putin connection have achieved that the far left is at only 3-4% in recent polls, from 8-9% last year, so their voter base has more than halved (under 5% for the next election = will not be longer part of the parliament). Well, we don't need such a party, of course.
That's pretty sad to see because previously, the far left was in vocal opposition against wars.
But when Russia starts a war, al least people like Lafontaine from the far left don't care about the party's anti-war position.
I need to disappoint you, but people like Lafontaine are living in their own fantasy world and they have watched too much Putin TV (Russia Today).
"When will there be a Chancellor who will have the courage to tell Washington this far and no further. Where does this German addiction to submission come from when you see how German journalists and politicians behave towards Washington?
Well, that's again making no sense and is 1:1 propaganda from Putin.
Even the publicly funded TV channels (ARD, ZDF) are often presenting the Russian position by reiterating statements from Putin, Lavrow or Peskow without addressing the lies. The statements from Putin, Lavrow or Peskow go completely unchallenged.
So far regarding your claim:
"When will there be a Chancellor who will have the courage to tell Washington this far and no further. Where does this German addiction to submission come from when you see how German journalists and politicians behave towards Washington?
Yes, publicly funded television in Germany has to be neutral by law but it should be clear, that when Russia is invading Ukraine, there's very clear, who is aggressor (Russia). This doesn't change, even when Lavrow said 2 days before the invasion, that there "will be no invasion" and Lavrow said "Russia won't invade Ukraine, it's just hate against Russia that NATO is claiming Russia wants to invade Ukraine".
Well, we can see, what happened 2 days after his lie.
When you think of your own people, there is only one solution: open Nord Stream 2 to prevent the worst. De Gaulle still knew that states have interests, not friends. Just as the Americans have been trying for 100 years to prevent German technology from merging with Russian raw materials (George Friedman), the federal government should finally see that the sanctions are not harming Russia and the USA, but primarily Germany and Europe."
Now, that's the most insane bullshit I've read for a while.
Why are you talking about German politics if you don't have any clue what you are writing here and your only source is Kremlin propaganda?
The current problem in Germany is an overwhelming dependance on Russian Gas and Oil (especially Gas). It's partially Putin's success to make Germany very dependant here. The former chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, who
left office in 2005, played a major role in making Germany dependant from Russia, when he was in office and to keep it that way.
So, it started before 2005, 20 years ago! Not just because some recent sanctions.
It has been Putins plan all along and especially in recent years, when he tried to push Nord Stream 2 and placed Schröder at Rosneft in a leading position and Putin wanted him into a leading position at Gazprom.
Nord Stream 2 was launched to circumvent transportation of Russian Gas through Ukraine, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania etc.
Nord Stream 2 was a direct pipeline from Russia to Germany.
When it became uncovered, that Germany is very dependant from Russian Gas, some whistleblowers leaked documents about the corruption of pro-Kremlin politicans in local administration structures and how they had enabled Putin. Large parts of the infrastructure of Gas pipelines and Gas storages were sold to Russia and local politicians were travelling frequently to Moscow to make Putin happy (make German energy supply dependant from Russia).
There was a large network of local politicians involved in pro Russia stuff and they made a shitload of money.
Gazprom even influenced local decisionmakers directly:
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/nord-stream-2-schwesig-gazprom-kontakt-1.5566878https://archive.fo/D8KWHIt's called corruption.
Putin is playing the "Sanctions" card to weaken support for Ukraine and to sell more Gas again to Europe to fund his war.
What if Putin decides he will cut off Germany / Europe from his Gas? Same problem!
"Sanctions" don't play any role here!
It was Putin and his corrupt politicans in Germany doing shady stuff to get cheap Gas from Russia and making Germany heavily dependant from Russian Gas. They succeded and now, it's overdue to correct the mistakes and corruption from past decades.
Germany has become far too dependant from Russian Oil and especially Gas!
Germany can replace Russian Gas but Putin has lost a big market, where he can sell his Gas - probably forever or at least as long as his corrupt circle is in power.
Russia will take the most damage long-term as Germany and Europe are slowly replacing Russian Oil and Gas.
Russia will lose Europe / Germany as a place, where he can sell his fossil fuels.
Germany has a big industry for cars, for steel and for chemical products (
like BASF). Very energy intensive production.
These industries will not be any longer supplied by Russian fossil fuels but from fossil fuels from elsewhere.
Very bad for Putin but he won't tell you.
Putin will never tell you when he has made a mistake because he would be so busy.
And he won't tell you, that it was his plan all along to control Europe's Gas supply!
So let's make it similar to an investment: diversify!
Don't buy your whole Gas supply from ONE (corrupt) country.
So, please! When you mention Germany next time, please do proper research.
Putin TV is not a credible source.
