Unfortunately, society was already transformed accordingly in Merkel's country. Experts with proven expertise who were not loyal to the party line were ruthlessly eliminated and replaced by yes-men.
This whole process then permeated all areas of society. Even in a forum like this.
I was able to observe this firsthand at my employer. Clueless dilettantes were promoted to positions and real experts were marginalized. It just didn’t help.
Critics are silenced, reason is replaced by babble. This is most clearly seen here.
Habeck and Baerbock are lying to the German people. In October 2021, long before the Russian invasion, Northstream II was canceled. By Baerbock. Germany immediately broke the contracts after the change of power. Everyone had warned before. Nevertheless, NS II was not put into operation under pressure from the USA. It was not Russia that breached the contract, but Germany.
And now Habeck is desperately trying to pin the blame on the Russians. Why?
Lawrow yesterday again offered to deliver gas in sufficient quantities via NS II. By the way, deliveries via the Transalp pipeline have been significantly increased. For the Eastern Europeans.
The only ones to blame for this crisis are the German traffic light coalition government. No one else.
And the bombing of the Russian-origin population within Ukraine, in the Donbass, by the Ukrainian military went unnoticed for 8 years. People watched idly as thousands were killed. And the West was certainly not uninvolved in these massacres.