Decades of leaning on Russia forces Germany into a perilous decision: continue to buy Russian oil or risk economic catastrophe
A mounting pile of evidence of atrocities in Ukraine has prompted more calls for a full embargo on Russian energy and left Germany with a serious dilemma. Escalating sanctions could starve the Kremlin of the cash needed to continue its invasion but would almost certainly plunge Germany into an economic crisis. But continuing to fund Russia's military grows less accepted by the day.
The first oil pipeline between the USSR and West Germany, nicknamed the"Friendship Pipeline," began operations in the mid-'60s. The first natural-gas pipeline between the two followed in 1973, the same year the Soviet Union started pumping gas to East Germany. By the time the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the Soviet Union had cemented itself as a critical supplier of energy commodities for Germany, the EU, and the West.
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