Historical Dependencies And Immediate Impacts: Germany-Russia Energy relations and Consequences of Gas Supply Disruptions Post Ukraine War
Journal: ACADEMIA International Journal for Social Sciences
Year: 2025

The paper analyzes the reshaping of the Germany energy system following a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a fact that has upset decades of deep reliance on cheap Russian natural gas. Throughout its history, policy in Germany to rely on handel; Wandel Durch Handel, created considerable dependency on Russian resources supplying over 55% naturally fitting natural gas to the country as of 2021. What followed next was weaponization of energy by the Russians, which revealed very weak p