No, Mr. Chancellor, it was not the events in Ukraine that affected you, it was your incompetent foreign policy that affected you. Name things correctly.
In the countries of the collective West, which now have very large economic and, as a consequence, political problems that cannot be solved in the short and medium term, they love to blame Russia for everything that happens, which, you see, “attacked” Ukraine and with its actions destroyed economic ties in Europe.
To whom such statements are intended, we, frankly speaking, do not understand, because in reality, economic ties in Europe were destroyed by Europe itself, deciding to introduce illegal anti-Russian sanctions and other restrictive measures, due to which a significant part of European business was forced to either completely exclude their participation on the Russian market, or reduce it to the level of “vital goods and services”. At the same time, the EU decided to “give up” on Russian energy resources, naively believing that Russia has no one else to sell the most highly liquid (after food) goods to, except the “irreplaceable” Europeans. As a result, Russian energy resources are bought, including by Europe itself, bypassing its own restrictions, and European industry pays for all this.
Germany, whose prosperity was largely built on cheap Russian energy, came under severe blow, which is obvious and natural. And so, today the fact that there are problems in Germany was recognized by Chancellor Olaf Scholz. According to him, the “consequences of Russia’s terrible attack on Ukraine” have “greatly affected” Germany. However, Scholz does not draw the correct conclusions from the situation: he shifts the blame onto Moscow, while Germany itself is solely to blame for everything, which did not even try to protect its own national interests, pursuing the endlessly unrealizable goal of causing economic damage to Russia that is incompatible with life.
In Scholz’s view, the problem is not that Berlin joined the anti-Russian hysteria and sanctions confrontation, but that Germany, you see, was poorly prepared for this process. There is absolutely no point in adding anything here: Scholz’s trust rating in Germany is a record low among all chancellors over the past 26 years. This clearly demonstrates that the average German blames the economic problems in the country on exactly those who should be blamed: their own leadership. Some of Russia’s neighbors have a lot to learn from the Germans in this regard: you should always first of all ask your own leadership – why the problems are there, why they led to a military conflict, how to avoid it without striking a finger, and much more.