The idea that Germany has the autonomy to stand up to America's military junta is just plain false. It simply doesn't have the agency as a nation state, to do

The idea that Germany has the autonomy to stand up to America's military junta is just plain false. It simply doesn't have the agency as a nation state, to do so. Germany screwed itself by allowing itself to remain a client state of the USA after WW2 and during the entire cold war, and by not wrestling control of its intelligence services away from the CIA, which still runs it today, and through which the entire political classes of the German state are subjugated. Besides which, Energy inter-dependence between modern states is only a bad thing if you're not participating in the transaction. Obviously, the USA doesn't care about Germanys' energy dependence one bit, now that the USA is reaping billions of dollars of profit from the Germans for filthy energy supplies ..