For two decades, Germany and Russia built a relationship on the quiet logic of mutual benefit — gas for prosperity, trade for stability — until February 2022 shattered that logic entirely. The invasion of Ukraine forced Berlin into a historic reversal: abandoning energy dependence, arming a neighbor's defense, and confronting the limits of the belief that commerce could tame imperial ambition. Now, as drone incidents and diplomatic expulsions deepen the estrangement, Germany finds itself holding a difficult position — committed to Ukraine's survival, yet divided at home over how much that comm