As Krugman sees it, Germany — the largest economy in Europe — is still much too reliant on Russian oil. And he slams Germany as the “weakest link in the democratic world’s response to Russian aggression.”“(Russian President) Vladimir Putin’s war of aggression runs on the money Russia gets by selling fossil fuels to Europe,” Krugman explains. “To be fair,” Krugman writes, “Germany has moved on from its initial unwillingness to help Ukraine at all. And maybe, maybe, the realization that refusing to shut off the flow of Russian gas makes Germany de facto complicit in mass murder will finally be enough to induce real action. But until or unless this happens, Germany will continue, shamefully, to be the weakest link in the democratic world’s response to Russian aggression.”

Source: New York Times April 08, 2022 17:03 UTC