Look at France, its electricity cost per KWh, and its carbon intensity per KWh generated. In recent years, all are much, much better than Germany's. (And their carbon intensity numbers have probably been consistently better since like the 1990s.)
It's almost as if making your economy that requires a lot of electricity dependent on electricity generation methods that require fuels supplied by potentially-hostile foreign countries is a bad, bad idea.
to be fair, this energy dependence was created in a time when the soviet block collapsed, and has worked for many many countries that where part of that block except for russia and belarus.
Economic integration has finally put the lid on the enourmous destruction of nationalism for the past 60 years.
The mistake which was made by (mostly) american and european economists was convincing everyone that applying shock therapy to the socialist economy and liberalising it in that way was the best way forward.
This resulted in the rise of putin and the aversion of the russian goverment to the "west".
This energy dependency was happening during a time when Russia was invading both Georgia(2008) and Ukraine(2014), right after murdering countless Chechens.
In my personal experience, the general sentiment of Germans has been shockingly anti fission-power. Fukushima stoked the fears that power that sentiment, and helped lead them to their current totally predictable economic plummet.
What happens when you shut down all your fission power plants, but don't have solar, wind, hydro, or geothermal power ready, and have no way of building enough storage to handle the intermittency of solar and wind? Well, you import petrochemicals from potentially-hostile foreign countries and burn them.
Look at France, its electricity cost per KWh, and its carbon intensity per KWh generated. In recent years, all are much, much better than Germany's. (And their carbon intensity numbers have probably been consistently better since like the 1990s.)
It's almost as if making your economy that requires a lot of electricity dependent on electricity generation methods that require fuels supplied by potentially-hostile foreign countries is a bad, bad idea.