[odawg]

“They dominate the world economically now”

Germany is number four, after United States, China, Japan.

[Cronos]

You are correct -- that was hyperbole. It should have been that they dominate Europe economically now and they are a strong economic power.

As you, odawg, correctly pointed out, they are fourth in the world after the US, China and Japan -- which is quite something for an 80 million strong country