If only we didn't have a metric boatload of Russian interference and sabotage in our countries that constantly blocks any efforts to get free from their dependence.
While there is no consensus on whether Angela Merkel was "too friendly" to Russia— critics argue that her policies left Germany and Europe too dependent on Russian energy and that she failed to take a sufficiently tough stance against Vladimir Putin. Supporters, including Merkel herself, have defended her diplomatic approach as a pragmatic and necessary strategy given Russia's place in Europe.
Even today money flows from US allies including NATO member states into Russia to buy gas rather than into the military and defense systems that might have prevented the bloodbath in Ukraine.
