When we lived in Germany, I would regularly speak to the issue of energy and independence. Many very nice Germans would simply be unable to comprehend that industry runs on energy, in cold weather homes are warmed by energy, and goods are distributed using energy. The Big Media there had sold them over decades that energy comes out of a wall plug, so to speak. So they -- wealthy compared to other European nations -- could just buy it when they wanted. Foolish. The green politics "NEIN Danke" bumper stickers rejecting nuclear energy where ubiquitous. Merkel simultaneously led Germany into dependence on Russian energy along with "wir schaffen es" mass Islamic migration, well beyond the Turkish influence from after WWII. "Danke Merkel" is exactly right.
Ostensibly a daughter of a preacher, she sold her nation's birthright for a pot of "red stew" (Genesis 25). It turns out it was Red stew.