Blind-Spot Politics

Putin has obviously deceived everyone. These were the words of Manuela Schwesig, First Minister of the German state Mecklenburg- Western Pomerania, after the 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine. She was trying to explain why her federal government had been so closely implicated in Russias controversial completion of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. Why have other German, Austrian and European polit...