> Sounds harsh, but that's the reality of politics everywhere and not particularly surprising. The funniest thing is - Germany trades more with Poland ( $92.3

> Sounds harsh, but that's the reality of politics everywhere and not particularly surprising. The funniest thing is - Germany trades more with Poland ( $92.3 billion) than with Russia ($31.5 billion). In fact Germany even trades more with Czech Republic than with Russia. If you add up all EE states it's orders of magnitude more. Yet somehow Russia is more important to them. If it was just realpolitik I would be outraged but not astonished. But it's not a rational foreign policy. German foreign policy is not only morally wrong - it's also irrational.