I think the article actually misses the point of the power dynamic at play: Germany is caught in a vise between the New World Order and the emerging Multi-Polar World Order.

On the one hand, if you stay with the NWO, you get cash, valuable prizes. guns and planes, awards and sashes. Scholz talks a good game and may well be totally on board and trying to drive it forward against the wishes and best interests of lots of Germans.

On the other hand, if you decide to check out of the NWO, all the goodies vanish and you're the bad guy, just like Russia. You always were the bad guy and you'll be a threat to the whole world until you're destroyed. Shit, you're obviously already a bunch of horrible Nazis, aren't you?

If they make an outright enemy of Russia now, Russia cuts off their energy and that will be extremely destructive to their industry in a way they simply cannot avoid. And for the long haul, Russia may not mention what Germany does now, but they will not forget.

So how are they playing it? Germany is dragging it's feet bigly when it comes to actually delivering for Ukraine. The military equipment is slow to arrive, very outdated, and sometimes outright non-functional. It looks to me like they hope Ukraine totally goes under sooner rather than later and the whole thing becomes moot.