@MKarnitschnig is right. @GermanyNATO@germanyintheeu@Bundeskanzler don't want to arm 🇺🇦 despite what 🇺🇦means for EUR security; does not want to end #Ostpolitik. 🇩🇪still hankering after 🇷🇺. Berlin refuses to end prism that eastern europe is still seen through prism of🇷🇺
At Rapallo in 1922, the German FM& AEG electrical magnate Walter Rathenau made the first treaty with the Soviet Union, enabling Russo-German trade to boom. Though Rathenau was assassinated by anti-Semitic terrorists, Hitler emulated him by striking a deal with Stalin, the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact
“Catherine the Great. The Tsarina invited Germans to settle in Russia to teach the peasants how to farm. Descendants of the “Volga Germans” were deported to Siberia by Stalin, but in the 1980s and 90s millions of them emigrated to Germany, where they now form a pro-Putin lobby group.”/