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Feral Finster's avatar

Germany and Russia are natural allies, in that each has what the other wants and can best get via cooperating. Germany and China are also for the same reason natural allies, albeit to a lesser extent than Germany and Russia.

United States policy has long been to prevent these alliances from coming to fruition.

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Kouros's avatar

"But it is quite another thing to claim that because Germany bought a lot of gas from Russia this materially contributed to the success of German exports, such that it is reasonable to say that the German model was dependent on “cheap Russian gas”. The evidence for that far-reaching causal claim is surprisingly weak."

I think that the proof is in the pudding. Will have to see how German industry, especially the sectors relying in cheap Russian gas are fearing.

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