It's not about a 'single madman', which surprised us. There were many warnings that the Russian regime was going in this direction and the German government ign

It's not about a 'single madman', which surprised us. There were many warnings that the Russian regime was going in this direction and the German government ignored it. Even shortly before the Russian attack on the Ukraine, when the gas storage in Germany was (almost) empty and gas delivery was going down, our German government did not believe the warnings. There is nothing rational about increasing dependency on an authoritarian Russian regime, which for example invaded Crimea almost ten years ago. The aggressive Russian politics was on display. It is also not rational to, at the same time, sell critical energy infrastructure to Russian companies, like Germany did with its gas network and storage systems. Similar it was not rational to build a gas pipeline together with the Russians to even further increase the Russian potential to blackmail us.