If Germany goes down, the western side to it will also fall. The impact will be global, the biggest will be on Europe.

Poland seems to be doing well...

This is an excellent projection. I always viewed Europe the land of 4 nations only uk, italy, Germany and France. All of four are struggling right now means Europe is going to be a disaster all of them fail to deliver.

I was reading an article recently that said German officials had warned Canada that they will be less reliant on Natural Gas in the coming years. They never learn.

Who blew up Nordstream? Wasn't that a pretty big part of Germany's continued economic success? The cheap fuel from Russia. Biden said he'd put an end to Nordstream if Russian troops ever crossed the Ukrainian border. Well they did and what he said he'd make happen actually happened. Other members of his cabinet made the same prediction or threat whatever you want to call it. Seymour Hersh, renowned longtime journalist, wrote a piece detailing what happened (if he didn't make up the story and his sources weren't lying.) Interesting stuff, isn't it?

Russia using Nordstream as bargaining chip might have paved the way towards diplomatic resolution of the security concerns of Russia. With that off the table there's less incentive for Germany to seek peaceful resolution. Still more than enough incentive in my view but the economic pressures towards diplomacy are dampened significantly since Russia couldn't sell Germany as much fuel even if they wanted to (with the pipeline destroyed).

Check out the writings of Jeffrey Sachs and John Mearsheimer on this conflict. Rfk Jr does a good job as well I think. People are probably familiar with the corporate media / mockingbird media depiction of this conflict. I find Jeffrey's and John's depictions far more rational and historically accurate.

Germany has to rebuild. It's economy is already in gutters. The politicians may lie but ask any businessman they will tell the truth. No imports from Germany to India now. While once Germany was at 2nd place.

Yeah, it laps them by miles. Yet, lots of money goes to the poorer countries.

but why did they cut out the entire Iberian peninsula from the graphic...