I find it interesting how Germans never make up their minds between deciding whether or not they want to be Russia's BFF or Ostkriegers (eastern warriors):
-Prussia/Germany and Russia had close ties during much of the 19th century, but then came the Franco-Russian alliance, WWI, and Germany sending Lenin to Russia and forcing Bolshevism on that country
-Germany and Russia had good ties during the Rapallo era, then Hitler came along, then there was the M-R Pact, and then there was Operation Barbarossa, which caused millions of German deaths and tens of millions of Soviet deaths
-Germany and Russia had good ties during the post-Cold War era, but then Russia blew it by invading Ukraine, compelling Germany to support Ukrainian EU membership and thus once again become Ostkriegers
German policy has been that whenever Russia is hostile, Germany moves towards the east. This has been true in 1918, in 1941, and again in 2022.
-Prussia/Germany and Russia had close ties during much of the 19th century, but then came the Franco-Russian alliance, WWI, and Germany sending Lenin to Russia and forcing Bolshevism on that country
-Germany and Russia had good ties during the Rapallo era, then Hitler came along, then there was the M-R Pact, and then there was Operation Barbarossa, which caused millions of German deaths and tens of millions of Soviet deaths
-Germany and Russia had good ties during the post-Cold War era, but then Russia blew it by invading Ukraine, compelling Germany to support Ukrainian EU membership and thus once again become Ostkriegers
German policy has been that whenever Russia is hostile, Germany moves towards the east. This has been true in 1918, in 1941, and again in 2022.