mafketis
16 Jan 2023 #2341
He is essentially right though.
Absolutely..... Germany's uninspiring response was a side effect of years of wrongheaded propaganda....
The lessons of WWII are not about Germany but about human nature. Making the message "germans did terrible horrible things and are responsible for them forever" is a big part of why Germany is unsuited to the leadership role it wants now. And it also made russians blind (or coddled them in their blindness) about how militaristic and inhuman its own military history is.....
There's also the idea that the russians have kompromat on certain politicians (like... all the German ones and Orban and Macron).