Nobody says Russian oil was the only driver. Agenda 2010 was about to cut taxes and welfare benefits in the first place. Once again Schroeder’s reforms has doubled the the German GDP so it is just ridiculous to blame him for economic underperformance. I have no idea why his Chinese or Russian deals undermined German security. German companies made tons of money in both Russia and China. Mass immigration is not his policy. Germany was always an immigration magnet in the world only third to US and Russia. Although it heavily escalated under Merkel not under Schroeder.
Most German voters considered this to be economic underperformance, which was a key factor in Schröder's loss to Merkel: "
In recent years, Europe’s largest economy has ground to a halt under the weight of its generous welfare system and constricting labor market policies. Economic growth slowed to only 0.2 percent in 2002 and gross domestic product actually shrank in the first quarter of this year. German unemployment is running at over ten percent."
Schröder Urges Reform as SPD Celebrates 140th Anniversary (May 2003) The tension over energy policy in the Ukraine would not have escalated into Soros' coup there without Schröder's corrupt Russian deals aggravating the situation, to name but one byproduct of his Russian policies; and supporting Communist China's infiltration of Germany's infrastructure and siding with China against the U.S. has certainly undermined German security, as well as that of other nations. Schröder helped set the stage for Merkel's immigration policy by lobbying for increased Turkish immigration to support his economic policy, among other things:
The hard-pressed chancellor of Germany, Gerhard Schröder, suffered another setback yesterday when the constitutional court threw out a law that is at the heart of his government's efforts to turn around the economy. The country's top judges upheld a complaint from the conservative opposition about the way in which Mr Schröder's followers steam-rollered a new immigration law through parliament last March. The affair has shown the fragility of his centre-left government which, despite its victory in last September's general election, has no clear majority in the Bundesrat, or upper house. The law would have opened Germany up to immigration for the first time since the 1970s, when it stopped taking in "guest workers" from Turkey and other Mediterranean states. The government maintains that foreigners are essential to plug skills gaps in the labour force and correct the effects of an ageing population - notably a rising imbalance between those contributing to, and benefiting from, its pension system. . .:
Schröder's pro-immigration law overruled (December 2002). And let's not forget Schröder's close alliance with the socialist globalist Tony Blair.