dude, Merker was chancelor from 2005 untill 2021, i dont believe you even have a memory of living without her, her reign was everything that created everything around her. And before her was Schröder, who was also friend of Russia.
>a rich history of making political dissidents fall out of windows from high buildings
every time some nobody without a name kills himself because of his finances or spouse problem, the next day liberal media and twitter start claiming that he was some "threat to Putin" and claiming he was killed by KGB, when if you were to ask anyone in Russia - no one knows these people, they are just some grey nobodies, but because Westerners can't factcheck this shit, due to you living in a different information bubble, you all yap and lap this crap. And you don't fact check this shit, because you don't want to find the truth, and even if you were to fact check and come forward with "Akshually, guys, i think this guy wasn't really killed...", you would get immidiatelly blocked by everyone, and called Putin's agent, they wouldn't even listen to your arguments or proof.
Russia is not really moving to the West. Have you fucking seen the speed of Russian advancment? Is Putin in Kiev? So you all want to pretend that Putin who can't capture donbass in 3 years - he is going to attack all of Europe and all of NATO and capture ANY LAND AT ALL in Europe? when he didn't even capture whole of Donbass in 3 years? You are deliberatelly delusionall.