Around 30 percent of EU oil imports and 39 percent of EU gas imports come from Russia. The German-led European Union is the world’s second-biggest energy importer. Iran controls 15 percent of the world’s oil.
In particular, Germany is arming Sunni Arab nations in a long-term strategy to undermine the Islamic Republic of Iran. Like most nations that sell weapons, Germany is after more than profit. Leopard 2 battle tanks and high-tech German armaments were an especially hot commodity among Arab monarchs, North African autocrats and Latin American presidents. Most of these weapons went to the German military, but around 15 percent were exported to Germany’s strategic partners around the world. Last year, German arms manufacturers sold $8 billion worth of weapons. It is the world’s fourth-largest weapons exporter.
Seventy-five years after Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, Germany is once again a major military power.
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