exactly. now that Germany has decommissioned all of their nuclear power plants and will have decommissioned all of their fossil fuel power plants in the near future, they’ll be viewing Venezuela and the like as “rivals” instead of the U.S. and China ...
Nordstream2 is coming on line. Plenty more Russian gas where that came from. No need for nukes or a German defense budget given that.
That’s still their goal, though.
Nord Stream 2 has been compared to a modern Molotov-Ribbentrop. Whenever Germany and Russia work together, it’s always about war plans.