Hmmm, the larger dispute is between NATO and Russia. The USA is the head of NATO.

If this insane idea that the sovereign nations of Europe have no agency of their own comes from American "news"-branded edutainment, I dearly suggest you defenestrate your television set. It is clearly rotting minds.

It tends to come from russian propaganda efforts. They have to make this look like they're fighting the US and not a bunch of sovereign, not enemy nations.

Hardly any euro state has real power when it comes to real decisions. Most of the euro states are politically heavily influenced by financial injections from the US. Military bases everywhere. US companies everywhere. All tech is dominated by the US. Of course Russia sees the US as the master country and euro countries as their puppets.

If you really want to go down that road, it's Russia's gas that runs eastern Europe, not US cash. Yet still, Germany tells Russia where to stick it. This is quite clearly not an economic decision.

> If you really want to go down that road, it's Russia's gas that runs eastern Europe, not US cash.

Imports of Russian gas (in billion cubic meters) as of 2020:

- Germany (42.6)

- Italy (29.2)

- Belarus (18.8)

- Turkey (16.2)

- Nertherlands (15.7)

- Hungary (11.6)

- Kazakhstan (10.2)

- Poland (9.6)

- China (9.2)

- Japan (8.8)

Oh how our East European borders have grown...

This is going to come off as agressive and whatever but I just really wish people like you that don't have any idea what they are talking about would just shut up already and stop polluting the internet with unfounded opinions.

For a “sovereign” nation Germany is awfully dependent on Putin for energy and the US for defense.

My position is not that Germany has no agency it’s that it traded away it’s much of its agency to appease the Greens.

These opinions come not from American TV but from my relatives.

Freistaat Bayern uber alles!

Sorry about taking over Europe again, hope you are enjoying the EU dictating your countries economic fortunes.

Talk like that gets you World War 3.

If people spent more time walking and less time talking world war 3 wouldn’t have already started.