> I don't have kind words for SPD/Die Grünen in specific, or, to be frank, Germany in general.
because they've governed Germany for the past decades ... wait ... they have not?
SPD has been part of almost every government formed since the WWII
Gerhard Schröder, German social democrat/SPD and later Putin associate.
Out of the last 28 years they have spent only 4 in the opposition. SPD together with CDU are the two major parties shaping Germany. As opposition they also always had a majority veto right.