I know that there is very likely something very obvious that I have missed. Looking on the popular, biased, factually-based wikipedia.org and I quote..
21st century
"Through 2012, Germany's economy continued to be stronger relative to local neighbouring nations.[128] In 2023, Germany experienced economic difficulties as a result of the closure of Russian natural gas resources due to the western sanctions against the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[129]"
It's like nothing happened between 2012 -2023.
21 sats \ 0 replies \ @xz 6 Jan
Maybe part of the answer was there after all.
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