The street may feel this way, but our government has another agenda. Agenda 21 globalism in which eventually you will not be able to travel nor buy or sell
anything without permission. There will be no such thing as private ownership and no such thing as a non-government employee paid or not paid. Europe is galloping towards it now and so is D.C. as soon as they can figgure out how to void the constitution, either via the votes of third world hordes, or treaties, or the Supreme Court.
The government will kiss and make up with Germany and France, heck it already has. We have a much bigger threat than "old europe" and it is an unclean bird two party system with the same agenda, "sustainable development" collected in a city on the east coast called D.C.
The government will do business with Germany and France, but that is very different from "kissing and making up." George Bush never forgets a slight. You have, no doubt, heard the relevant expression: "Beware the anger of a patient man."