Exactly so. The problem was that the entire German leadership had been committed to this for 40 years. Even the mentors of the current leadership generation were tied to this strategy.
Yes, Germany has had this ridiculous commitment to Gaia worship for a long time.....call it a reversion to worshipping the pre christian forest gods they used to worship.
So they stupidly shut down coal, shut down nuclear power plants, failed to build LNG terminals or secure contracts with other suppliers and went all in on making themselves almost completely dependent on Russia - thinking themselves oh so smart the whole time.
and exactly as predicted and as they were warned against by practically every American administration since the 1960s, it has now come back to bite them in the ass.
Germany has to choose between Gaia worship on the one hand and national energy security and a functioning economy on the other. I’m not at all sure which they will choose - they are that committed to sacrificing to Gaia.