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If they were a puppet of the U.S. like you say, they wouldn't have been investing in and dependent on Russia in the first place. When Trump was President the first time and he chided them on their dependence on Russia and asked them to build a floating LNG terminal, they laughed.

The Germans are in the situation they're in because they did not take U.S. advice on the entirely predictable Russian bad behavior.

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>If they were a puppet of the U.S. like you say, they wouldn't have been investing in and dependent on Russia in the first place

A poodle doesnt always behave. When it is slapped though, it falls into line.

>The Germans are in the situation they're in because they did not take U.S. advice

...and the US responded by destroying the poodle's energy infrastructure. Biden threatened to end it and it ended.

You think the poodle ought to be better behaved. I get what you're trying to say, dont worry. You have the same attitude Russians do towards Belarus when it "mis steps".

Germany destroyed its own energy infrastructure by shutting down all of its nuclear energy generation capacity.

The wartime destruction of Russia's coercive instrument is secondary to Germany's own self-inflicted wound.

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