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The deep irony
The deep irony of all of this is that Europe suffered a terrible economic loss by the US policy, because the US policy included to break the links between Russia and Europe. But those two economies, the European Union economy and the Russian economy, are complementary. Russia's filled with natural resources including low cost natural gas, a critical energy source for German industry. The US went out of its way to break that link, even bombing the nordstream pipeline, destroying it, and Europe just sat there. Now the European economy is in a shambles. This is why the German government led by the social Democrats suffered the the worst imaginable defeat, because the economy has collapsed