The problem is that the EU was created to create an empire. Each major founder thought they would lead it. Germany just dominated it through sheer will and determination. They thought to create an economic warzone they could control, but like all bureaucrats and corporations run by the stupid and greedy, they cut corners. Energy self-sufficiency is the keystone to controlling your own war efforts. By becoming beholdent to Russian energy supplies, they lost the war without a single fucking shot fired.
They thought to create an economic warzone they could control, but like all bureaucrats and corporations run by the stupid and greedy, they cut corners. Energy self-sufficiency is the keystone to controlling your own war efforts.
Pretty obvious to anyone on the side cutting corners has little to do with it, though.
The problem is that the EU was created to create an empire. Each major founder thought they would lead it. Germany just dominated it through sheer will and determination. They thought to create an economic warzone they could control, but like all bureaucrats and corporations run by the stupid and greedy, they cut corners. Energy self-sufficiency is the keystone to controlling your own war efforts. By becoming beholdent to Russian energy supplies, they lost the war without a single fucking shot fired.
Pretty obvious to anyone on the side cutting corners has little to do with it, though.