I have just returned from four days in Berlin. There are a few things you need to understand about the Germans:
1. Germany is incredibly wealthy;
2. The Germans hate the Russians with a passion that the rest of the West can barely comprehend; and
3. The Germans are not the sort of people who give "the bird" to their bankers.
I grant that it is getting pretty cold in Northern Europe, and I am pleased to be back in España.