I still find it absurd that having a decline in economy would somehow push Germany to align with Russia, No offence, but economic issues or not, I don't think a

I still find it absurd that having a decline in economy would somehow push Germany to align with Russia, No offence, but economic issues or not, I don't think any European country with a smidgen of sanity would even touch Russia with a ten foot pole after what happened in the last few months.