She believed that due to the fact that eu and Germany specifically was by far the biggest customer of russian gas, she could dictate the prices etc to russia. She had made statements about this also. She said exactly that. The whole west believed so. They were wrong of course. The army is another story, you are not allowed by your allies to have a strong army, you should know that. Of course you can blame Merkel for rediculus events like this with the broomsticks
because yhat scum Ursula is Merkel's "child"