>Merkel tried to reign in Putin with Gas.
It's rein.
It's also nonsense, Russia had Germany on a leash, you cannot seriously believe Merkel was playing Putin.
It's rein.
It's also nonsense, Russia had Germany on a leash, you cannot seriously believe Merkel was playing Putin.
The key word there is tried. "wandel durch handel" means "Change through trade" (1). That's what Germany tried, it was a part of their foreign policy.
Now we all know that it did not work with Putin's Russia, but that was not the claim made by Germanioum. It is not nonsense that they tried. Even if they tried and failed.
Sentences often make more sense when you read all of the words in them.
Generally speaking if you want to have some negotiating power you don't make yourself completely dependent on the counterparty.
I never thought of Germany as a nation of morons but maybe it's time to revisit that.
If you are still in doubt about this, I urge you to read the article linked above. Or google the term. I assumed that it was something that "everybody knows" but apparently not.
Most of things you write are bullshit to be polite, lies and more lies directly from petrohrad's GRU troll farms. Its aimed for folks with below-average IQ and it works surprisingly well (given it uses psychology us-vs-them to split given population into similar silos for further processing and attack on negative emotions which is not rocket science).
Just an example of your bullshit - if Germany's half of industry is directly depending on that gas, there is no way they can turn it off just like that. It took them significant amount of time to find other sources and increased their final prices, and part of current industry decline making them less competitive. So much for who owns that leash, but those are facts, so just secondary topic for such folks.
You know, lies can be put out eloquently so they work at least a bit. Definitely not what you put here.