That is simply broad brushing Germany I'm afraid. The entire 20th Century is more than just two world wars - 20th Century Germany helped rebuild Europe once the EEC and EU started to take shape, an EU most of Eastern Europe are desperate to join.
Up to reunification the Germans in the Russian Soviet East of the country knew only a thousand years of warlords, principalities, the kaisers, the Russia Hugger Bismarck who himself exited by handing the country over to Hitler; then Stalin. The East remains a hotbed of AfD fascism and the die hard Soviet worshipers of Die Linke
Beginning this century the whole of the country got to enjoy Putin, Schroederovsky, Merkelov. Looking at Ukraine today the stupidity of it is grotesquely obvious.
The German model of relations with Russia is a flop. It's decades of failure. A disaster. Never to return. Yet and despite Russia in Ukraine the DP
Bundesgang is still reciting the old and miserable dogma that a Europe led by Germany kissing up to Russia is the way to ensure peace. This while EU & NATO led by the US know the need early in the 21st century is to send Putin packing. Take it from there.
Indeed last September Germany went to the polls to produce the first three party federal coalition led by SPD and Scholz, the Greens and the Free Democrats. I've said more than once SPD started the Russia Hugging so it's a kind of poetic justice that the unprecedented coalition led by SPD would end it.
The coalition driven by the Greens and Free Democrats put the torch to the old dogmas. It announced
Zeitenwende which is the dawn of a new era by Germany. Still however the Russophiles among the population of Germany have only tightened their already hard and fast grip on the pathetic Ostpolitik that has culminated in the Russo-German now kaput geo strategic project that was Nord Stream 2.
The road ahead won't be easy for Germany either given the hard, hard core of German Russophiles that are digging in their heels.
