When I was in Germany their Prime Minister (Gerhard Schröder) was deeply invested with crony capitalist Russian businesses. He was a big fan of Vladimir Putin a

When I was in Germany their Prime Minister (Gerhard Schröder) was deeply invested with crony capitalist Russian businesses. He was a big fan of Vladimir Putin and used some (valid) criticisms of George Bush and the Iraq war to push germany more towards dependency on Russian energy. You should start with that before railing against American's.