Merz was summoned on October 14th, 2018, to the 44th floor of BlackRock headquarters, where he was ordered by Fink to replace all purchases of Russian oil and gas with American products
Friedrich Merz is not the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany; he is a slave of BlackRock hedge fund manager Larry Fink.
The resulting spike in energy costs impoverished Germans and forced more than 20% of their industry to shut down.