Looks like Germany is looking out for its immediate best interests. Wise move for them, right now. Also, seems like they have no problem negotiating and working with a "loose cannon" country like Russia. So I guess now we are going to start demonizing the Germans? Are they now Russian bootlickers?
I tried to tell some of you keyboard "experts" how this was going to go down, but you all mocked me when I said
"Pivot East" . So now that Germany has now shown their hand and pretty much proved that prediction true, let me make another prediction or two.
1. If this holds up, that may be the action that begins to break up NATO. We already have Turkey straddling the fence, but you now get this action, and it becomes clear that you have a problematic situation. Turkey, the largest military outside of the US) is one foot in/one foot out. Germany, one of the largest economies outside of the US in NATO, has gone against US desires in their attempt to antagonize Russia. Both of these countries deal with Russia in a much less antagonistic way than just about anyone else in NATO, so there could be further deals and agreements in the future.
2. On that same vein, look for some kind of alternative energy deal to be worked out between Russia, Syria, Turkey, Germany and possibly some Balkan countries (Serbia?) to try to get another pipeline from the Middle East to Germany within the next 5 years. Not saying the pipeline will be in place, I'm saying they will get the deals and agreements together. Once that happens, the already ridiculous talk of shipping American LNG to Europe will completely die off.
