Not a German citizen but I live in Germany. Things are pretty fucked, and without a revolution they can only get worse. The energy situation is an own goal like you indicated, and agricultural policy is going the same direction. Foreign, financial, transportation, and health policies are all trainwrecks in motion. The Social Democrats are ostensibly the most powerful coalition partner in government but it’s the warhawk US influenced Greens and libertarian Free Democrats who are really in charge. Overall a majority of people support these very poor decisions, because of the way the media, especially the public broadcasters, report it.

People were more or less ok with relatively high energy and food prices up to the last few months, as well as other high living costs, as many Germans are high earning labour aristocracy or petite bourgeois. Most people just ignore the very low wage earners because classes don’t exist in Germany apparently, and there’s government assistance for the poor on paper, and all the other excuses comfortable white people have to not care about the plight of the most exploited.

Now with inflation rapidly accelerating (official figure is about 9%, so the real figure must be in the mid teens at least), gas being rationed in industrial applications and soon residential, unemployment sure to rise, wages flat… It takes a lot of shit for Germans to finally step up and try to change things, and that moment may come soon. Unfortunately those best placed to take advantage are reactionaries.