This piece isn't surprising, According to Mercouris this guy is one of the biggest media cheerleaders for the Ukraine project.

Yet there are many reasons to wonder about the present state of Germany. Its powerful economy, product of the postwar “miracle”, is in or nearing recession. Higher energy costs, falling exports and labour shortages are wreaking havoc, Robert Habeck, the economy minister, gloomily relates. The situation, he says, is “dramatically bad”.

These problems are self-inflicted and not entirely of Scholz's making though it would be fair to blame him for rolling over and letting the ambitious and delusional Habeck steer the ship of state into an iceberg. But Germany is self-destructing in just the way the US and UK wanted so they'll give Habeck and Baerbock a free pass and pin it all on Scholz.

Unedifying arguments over who – France or Germany – is giving the most, and most effective, assistance to Ukraine have intensified of late. Like other allies, Berlin flatly rejected Macron’s nouveau-hawkish suggestion that Nato consider deploying troops in Ukraine. As with Taurus, Scholz’s great fear is escalation – a fear that Moscow cynically fans.

This fear is real, at least to sane people. It doesn't need to be fanned, cynically or otherwise.

These people never learned the Law of Holes.