Those economic ties were broken the moment Russia started threatening to cut off the gas unless Germany did what they wanted, which took about 3 days and escalated over the next several months. It has been transparently clear for a decade that Germany was the one being "roped" by Russia, not the one "roping" Russia.

Germanys problem is clearly that they noticed and said no! (/s)

Sorry, just getting out of the influence of someone similar. It’s a hit too painful.

Putin has been invading his neighbours since 2008 and finally launched a full scale war.

How would you say that is “roping in Russia”?

Some people think so, looking at the raw geopolitics instead of the news fodder - e.g. in 2015:

"So, the primordial interest of the United States over which for centuries we have fought wars, the first, second and cold war has been the relationship between Germany and Russia. Because united they are the only force that could threaten us, and to make sure that that doesn’t happen."

https://uaposition.com/stratfor-founder-and-ceo-george-fried...

This is a rather outlandish theory IMO and it also doesn’t answer the question I posed.