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I mean, the slowness is a feature. It's made to put as much red rape in front of the next Hitler as possible, so they they just get tired of filling out forms and give up.
Germany went from a rightful position of frustration to a position deserving of rightful praise.  Successfully transitioning out of all Russian energy is itself a massive blow to Russia, nevertheless all of the financial and weapons transfers.  Germany had to break through a ton of bureaucracy and seriously reshape both political and energy policies to get where it is now. >

German bureaucracy needs major reforms throughout, their slowness, rigidity and extreme hard-on for paper-copies and disregard for any electronic means of doing stuff has it downright stuck in the 1970s