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If the U.S. had had a moderate Ukraine policy, none of this would have happened. Instead, Germany's energy policy is now based on U.S. dependency in the hope that the U.S. will play nice. Which it does not.

No it is not "small fry". Whole industries shut down, it has nothing to do with Merkel. Cheap energy from Russia was sabotaged by provoking the Ukraine invasion.

Sabotaging German energy from Russia isn't new. Already Reagan did that. Tony Blair of course also wanted a huge Russian oil deal, but was rebuffed. Perhaps that is the cause for the jealousy.

The Germany would have to get nuclear weapons. The U.S. knows that perfectly well, that is why it stays and hypocritically complains that the EU isn't doing enough.

Also, the U.S. MIC wants to sell to its NATO "allies".

The U.S. and France bought Russian uranium until 2024, long after the Nord Stream pipeline was blown up.

They bought Russian oil via the so called shadow fleets. Pure hypocrisy.

Just now Biden sanctioned Rosatom and the shadow fleets in order to make things more difficult for Trump.

Just last month The U.S. coerced Ukraine to stop transit of Russian gas (while collecting transit fees).