For years, Germany, though officially unified, has been torn between two forces. Some economic groups, like gas importers and exporters of manufactured and agricultural goods, have wanted to get along with Russia (and even more with China), a policy symbolized by Angela Merkel and the Baltic pipelin.
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BERLIN While backroom profiteers in the shadows count up newly-acquired millions and billions from armament purchases or sales of fracked gas due to the Ukraine war, the rest of us are left opposing both Putin’s criminal war as well as all attempts, on the other side, to prolong, extend and gain.
BERLIN While backroom profiteers in the shadows count up newly-acquired millions and billions from armament purchases or sales of fracked gas due to the Ukraine war, the rest of us are left opposing both Putin’s criminal war as well as all attempts, on the other side, to prolong, extend and gain.
BERLIN - I’ve been toiling on this article for weeks, altering it, agonizing, starting anew. Events are simply too complicated and bitter – in the world and in Germany, too. Most dreadfully in Ukraine. Just knowing that so many people are suffering so terribly is appalling.