Germany Agonises over Merkel's Legacy: Did She Hand Too Much Power to Putin?

Why this matters here

Connolly’s 2022 Guardian report gathers the post-invasion German debate over whether Merkel-era energy policy and Russia exposure—Nord Stream, gas arrangements, industrial habit—traded present stability for later vulnerability. When Authority Is Misread uses that contested reassessment to separate precision about uncertainty from foresight about structure. The article records critics’ arguments; the book does not treat them as proof that reassurance would have been better, only as evidence that quiet cost allocation can be misread as settled wisdom.