Cute. I take it you're not aware of the elephant in the room which is the corruption of the German political (and, even more so, business) elites by the Russian

Cute. I take it you're not aware of the elephant in the room which is the corruption of the German political (and, even more so, business) elites by the Russian energy lobby. At the regional level we're talking about people like SPD's Manuela Schwesig and the "Klima und Umweltschutz" (Climate and Environment Protection) foundation¹, and at the high-level political level – about people like Gerhard Schröder who, in exchange for his Ribbentrop-Molotov-style tight energy cooperation with Russia, was awarded board seats at Nord Stream AG and Russia's Rosneft. But I guess that's not corruption? By the way, the very reason Russia invaded Ukraine is because Ukraine is on a relentless path to successful democratisation, deoligarchization and, yes, reduction, slow or not, of corruption. Russia wouldn't care if Ukraine was to stay _like_ Russia, corrupted and undemocratic. Russians invaded precisely because Ukraine was demonstrating it was (and is!) becoming European, adopting the European standards of the rule of law and a healthy market economy. The last thing Russia wants is a successful democracy at its doorstep, especially in a country that it claims (however falsely) it shares historical heritage with. ¹ https://www.transparency.org/en/press/germany-state-government-conceals-gazprom-connection-controversial-environmental-foundation-beneficial-ownership https://www.transparency.org/en/press/germany-state-governme...