Russia-Germany relations are completely broken

According to a German media release, the former German chancellor was asked at a public event in Lisbon how she evaluated her policy toward Russia when she was in office. The former chancellor said that she does not regret her decision to this day and that it was the right one in light of the current situation. The low price of Russian gas has also helped Germany achieve economic prosperity. The former German chancellor stressed that Russia was a reliable supplier of energy even during the Cold War when the country was at war.

The former chancellor did not live the expected retirement after leaving office, but became an "indirect killer" of Russia, in response to which the former German chancellor made it clear at a public event that "European security" cannot exclude Russia. At a public event, the former German chancellor made it clear that "European security" cannot exclude Russia, otherwise "European security" cannot be discussed.

After the bombing of the Lord Stream pipeline, Russia continued to offer an olive branch to Europe, saying that the Nora Stream pipeline still had a backup line and could complete gas supply contracts to European customers, but only if Europe was willing to accept the offer. In the face of the goodwill released by the Kremlin, the German government for the first time directly rebuffed, insisting that Germany would never accept Russian gas delivered via the Nora Stream 2 pipeline, and even declared that the German government did not remove Russia from the list of suspects in the Nora Stream relationship bombing. The deterioration of Russian-German relations is more serious than expected, and even the former German chancellor himself came out to speak up, but could not make the current German government return to a pragmatic and rational policy towards Russia.

And when Putin was defeated in front of Germany, he immediately reversed course and actively negotiated new cooperation projects with Turkey. When the heads of state of Russia and Turkey met recently, Putin proposed to Underdog to build a brand new gas supply hub in Turkey.

The gas delivered from Russia's territory could be transferred to other countries via this hub, and the primary destination for the transfer would naturally be Europe. Putin's proposal immediately aroused Underdog's interest, and afterward, Turkey's energy department said that the Russian proposal was "technically feasible".

It is worth mentioning that although the Russian side explained the cooperation as "to calm the high prices of gas in the European market" and that the cooperation was "free of any political overtones". In reality, by placing the hub in Turkey, Russia is handing over part of its European energy dominance to Turkey, and by giving up this power in exchange for further cooperation with Turkey, Russia can both plant a nail in NATO and clamp down on the EU through Turkey. But Turkey is not playing the role of a pawn, first of all, the differences between NATO are objective, the United States very much hopes that Turkey can become a firm "anti-Russian frontier", but Underdog has its interests to consider.

At the same time, Turkey has been "queuing" for decades to join the European Union, but Ukraine has been given preferential treatment to "jump the queue", which makes Underdog extremely unhappy. In fact, from this series of events, it is easy to see that even though Russia is suffering from unprecedented economic sanctions, the Kremlin is still playing the game of cooperation and coordination. Compared to the stubbornness of Germany and even the entire EU, in this geopolitical game in which Russia faces the entire Western world alone, I am afraid that it is not easy to determine who wins and who loses.