Merkel now is in favor of intensifying anti-Putin sanctions after she saw what the Russians did to Aleppo. Of course, I suspect she’s even more shocked by what they did to her party’s chances to remain relevant in Germany.
It’s sad to see how passionately people cling to the idea that history and culture don’t matter and that everybody is exactly the same. They end up paying an enormous price for this mistake but keep on denying the obvious.
The trauma of losing WWI and seeing their economy collapse in the 1920s sent Germans straight into Nazism. Yet the very same Germans who have this legacy take forever to understand that much more traumatized Russians will not move towards democracy in a quiet and orderly fashion without making sure everybody else pays through the nose for their severe trauma.
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