Thinking it less a gamble than what salesfolk call a kick-in, first Angela Merkel then Olaf Scholz rolled the dice and lost. Calculating that Russia would swiftly be defeated, followed by regime change in Moscow, Germany obediently committed to the US led sanctions whose blowback has been merely humiliating for Washington, Team Biden especially, but for Germany and the EU catastrophic.
In twelve sprightly minutes Alexander Mercouris and Alex Christoforou assess the fall out for a ruling coalition – with Annalena Baerbock’s Greens the most stridently hawkish of the Ukraine warmongers – and, since Germany’s enormous trade surplus with other member states made it Europe’s driving engine, for the EU as a whole.