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Russia’s war on Ukraine has forced Germans to think differently

An ability to surprise is not the first thing people typically associate with Germans. But the direction Germany has taken since Russia launched its war of aggression against Ukraine, maybe Germans have managed to surprise even themselves. Only two years ago, billions of cubic metres of gas arrived from Russia to Germany through Nord Stream 1 and other pipelines. Russian fossil fuels made up a large share of our energy consumption. Today, they’ve cut this down to zero.