I know very well who Mark Hertling is, I've posted multiple threads by him in here including the one with the tweets you quoted in your original post. My reply was directed at you and your baseless attacks on anything German.
Germany like a lot of other European countries where naive in how they handled the threat from Russia in the past, especially after 2014. But they are trying to correct their mistakes and are now one of the biggest contributors to the Ukrainian defense, despite not having a very powerfull army themself.
But is Germany naive?
Or perhaps what we see here is a regular pattern of greed and utter disregard for any pain and destruction Germany's actions is causing to others? Perhaps we have a deeply unethical stance from the German government?
In the past 15 years, we had two great destructions in Europe. The war in Ukraine, and the 2010-2018 destruction of the economy of Greece that dropped 22%. Obviously, the war in Ukraine is so much worse, it cannot be compared to "only" economic problems, but still, a GDP drop of 22% only happens in wars, it is not insignificant.
In both problems, I see similar behavior from Germany, the same focus on how to make money for themselves, the same reluctance to help, the same pressure from USA on Germany to contribute to the solution. And of course the same self-righteous stance and moral superiority!
Yes, you can make graphs that Germany contributed greatly to Greece avoiding total destruction. But this was only after Germany's actions greatly amplified the problem! Germany's GDP is 4 trillion and the Greek GDP is only 220 billion, insignificant compared to Germany's. The problem could have been solved much earlier, without much fuss. But Germany decided to make Greece an example and started saying that Greece is corrupted and all that bullshit that pushed the Greek economy to the edge. Back then, even some Germans complained about it, but Merkel did not stop. Here is a link, only because people forget what happened 10 years ago. The link is from 2011, but the "Greece-bashing" from Germany did not stop in 2011, it continued for many more years. It continued after 2014, after Putin's invasion of Crimea. In 2015, Obama had to call Merkel and ask her to avoid Grexit. Obama pushed Merkel to help Greece. That was after Putin annexed Crimea.
https://www.cnbc.com/id/44398950
Germany Shouldn't Tolerate 'Greece Bashing': Schroeder
5 Sept 2011
Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder told CNBC that his successor, Angela Merkel, should never have tolerated the Greece-bashing as the euro zone debt crisis unravelled.
"The one mistake the German chancellor made was that she tolerated Greece-bashing and sometimes, did so herself. That should not have happened," said Schroeder in an interview in Brussels.
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Plot twist: The same "
morally superior" Merkel government that was aghast about "Greek corruption" and wanted to "give the Greeks a lesson" during 2010-2018, had a great relationship with Putin!
Second plot twist: In 2008, US wanted Ukraine to join NATO. Merkel refused because ... Ukraine is corrupted!
