An awesome Tweet Thread on how the German & Russian economies are intertwined and compatible....

Strange behaviour of Germany during the war in Ukraine might make more sense if we consider that German and Russian economies are surprisingly compatible pic.twitter.com/7lVJ04JSt3

— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) June 15, 2022

Read this entire Twitter Thread!

This answers so many questions for me.  It also explains why the current situation is so much more dangerous for the Europeans than I imagined.

Russia and Germany WERE co-dependent.

The Russians can replace the Germans with the Chinese.  Who will the Germans replace the Russians with?

I've heard it said that Merckel was Putin's bitch.  I don't think that's right.  From what I'm reading here,she was dealing with economic circumstances that were beyond her control and in the best interest of her economy (assuming she wanted to keep it growing).

Sadly the Russians are now playing the energy card (or suffering the blight of western corporations leaving).  They're throttling back fuel deliveries to the west.

That means the summer will be uncomfortable (although I heard parts of Europe are suffering a heat wave), but the danger is in the winter...especially if its a cold winter.