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"could just as easily be attributed to this relationship being beneficial for Germany" There is no single concience called Germany that may definitively answer
by ClumsyPilot 4y ago
"could just as easily be attributed to this relationship being beneficial for Germany"
There is no single concience called Germany that may definitively answer the question of whether it benefits them.
As is often the case, people benefetting from this relationship are not the ones paying the price when something goes wrong.
For every 1 billion of economic benefit produced by this relationship, this war has destroyed 5.
most lukely, without this relationship, the qar would not be possible.
- blub 4y agoThe fact that it persisted for decades and increased in capacity is proof that it benefited Germany and the other European countries. And you’ve noticed yourself that the benefits accrued in the EU and the costs were incurred in Ukraine. But this is oversimplifying things - the Ukraine war has other important geopolitical facets besides the admittedly important energy aspect, such as NATO expansion.