The EU demands fiscally sound Germans bail them out, by just giving them money without conditions. This is like a broke relative needing you to save them financially, but demanding you write a check for them to spend as they see fit.
Amazing.
And no, we didnt fight a war to prevent Germen domination through better trade and smarter government. We only insisted that nobody invade each other.
An example of a war fought to prevent German domination through commerce was WWI. The British REALLY didn’t like intensely growing German competition.
The Kaiser and German Government were looking to achieve global domination: they were extremely happy to launch WW1.
When they invaded Belgium the Germans threatened to take control of the Scheldt and so gain the ability to amass an invasion fleet.
The Scheldt (easily as strategically significant in its way as the Golan heights, the Rhine or the island of Okinawa) is the key reason why Belgian neutrality was guaranteed by Britain in the first place, and why the invasion of Belgium forced Britain into the war.
Four years later the Germans were starved into signing the Armistice by the naval blockade. But twenty years later they were at it again with the same mad dream of conquest.