Russia has been funding green parties and NGOs in Europe for years.

The green movement had its origins in the protests of 1968, which opposed the establishment both in the West and the East. Some parts of the movement later received support from the USSR. Particularly the ones that opposed nuclear weapons.

As far as I understand, the support mostly ended with the collapse of the USSR. Green/left activists are often strongly anti-authoritarian, and Russia is not as credible ally to the anti-West elements as the USSR was. The pro-business elements of traditional center-left / center-right parties were more useful to Russian interests, and the right-wing populist / conservative nationalist movement became a better source for useful idiots.

Absolute nonsense.

Grade A BS, the greens predate Russia for generations

Is there any truth to this, what are your sources? Because if Russia wanted to make Germany dependant on their energy, using a political movement/party within to achieve their aims would be the natural progression.

Still recall the overreaction post-Fukushima and thought it was really peculiar that a non-seismic region would look to an island sitting on top of a tectonic plate for guidance.

It's almost comical how wide the ESG definition has become and how its been expanded to include not-so-eco friendly energy sources.

I fear that all these virtue signaling, tree hugging movement, have an ulterior motive that overrides the genuine good will of the people participating but this asymmetric political cell will not be exposed I'm afraid because it would ruin a lot of what we've taught our schools as "moral".

This is like a rich person that has a change of heart and wants his donation to a prestiguous school back but don't want to look bad so he's trying to find all sorts of faults.