Germany’s Ongoing Lesson: You Can’t Depend On Dictators

Germany is learning the hard way: You can't depend on authoritarian regimes and autocracies for economic security. Or any other kind of security for that matter. In 2022, the world's fourth-largest economy briefly found itself staring into the abyss amid an existential spiral in natural gas prices that threatened to shut down German industry. That was thanks to the war in Ukraine and Russia's efforts to weaponize energy in retaliation for Western economic sanctions, which amounted to the weapo