alt Hacker NewsNobody forced Germany to shut down their nuclear plants. The US even warned them not to do it for over a decade. Obama and Merkel had a joint press conference where Merkel assured everyone that Germany had a "10 to 15-year plan". The Biden administration even sanctioned German companies building Nordstream 2 because it was a Russian geopolitical project that would be weaponized against them.
Well we see how that turned out.
Merkel's lack of brain or personal folder in Moscow archives forced Germany. It often hard to tell with Germans if it's their stupidity due to arrogance (they in many ways never grew out of their pre world war two self image as the most developed mentally, morally and technologically nation in whole Europe) or their corruption.