Why in hell can’t Germans just be content to run their own country? They always have this outward looking crap that they have to lead, dictate, set the rules, be first among equals, etc.
Germany, for once in your control freak history as a nation state, please STFU.
Germans have a pacifist streak, but in a conformist, controlling, leftist- fascist kind of way.
It seems like a paradox, but I know these people well.
“Why in hell can’t Germans just be content to run their own country?”
Same reason NY and CA keep trying to boss the other 48 US states around.