It is about geopolitics. Germany, like Japan is an occupied country since WWII. The US controls it. The US does not want Germany to have either rocket industry

It is about geopolitics. Germany, like Japan is an occupied country since WWII. The US controls it. The US does not want Germany to have either rocket industry or nuclear industry, because that makes them capable of making nuclear bombs. Also France and UK are terrified of Germany having a strong rocket or nuclear energy, and with good reason. They invented rockets and could make them much better and economically than they can. So the US wants to dismantle Germany nuclear industry and make it impossible for them to make nuclear bombs because they don't have either the people or the industry to support it. They will love to do that with France or UK too, if they could, but those countries will never do that, as they are much more independent that Germany is. The real reason Germany prime ministers do what the US wants is because the US pressures them all the time with economic sanctions and they must comply or else...