The US Empire has decimated the German economy, with its Russian gas trade war. The US Empire tells the Europeans they have to take over financing their proxy war in Ukraine. They're in the driving seat. The Germans baulk at such a thought because they're going down the tube. Now the vassel scholz wants peace talks. He knows he's being set up for the US Empire to say, it wasn't us gov.. that sold out Ukraine. It was those Europeans.