From the German perspective there is a country east with loads and loads of nukes and on the west a paper ally Around 2000 they wanted to become part of Nato,

From the German perspective there is a country east with loads and loads of nukes and on the west a paper ally Around 2000 they wanted to become part of Nato, but this all changed with the Iraq war. The Afghanistan, Georgia, Ukraine, Syria wars later followed further dividing the two powers. Besides states don’t have friends, only threats. Nothing to do with girlfriends, friends or people. Just the nature of states