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only economically, not militarily.
I'd say both.. Who the fuk wouldn't buy a leopard over a lecrec or HK over Famas... Eurofighter? U boats etc..
Almost every modern weapon is somehow derived from German/Nazi weapons.. V rocket,Jets,even stealth fighters ... Germany has the capability and industrial capacity to become a major military power.
another way to look at it is that without NATO, the Germans have no capability to send an expeditionary force by themselves anywhere.
Nor the the French .. Can the French (themselves) go and fight a country like Saddams Iraq ? Don't give me the rag tag African militias example here.
The Germans have been pacified by the Americans (thanks to WWII)... Much like the Japanese.
Why not? Out of all European countries, only France has an independent nuclear program and its own spaceport. The British do not have nuclear missiles (they use American ones). Germany - is an occupied country with very limited rights. All the others - are too insignificant to claim something global.
Lift the American "sanctions" & Germany could lead EU militarily too (not just economically).