They’ve had the EU military plans in place for decades, but “no intention of using” them? They aren’t Obama, as much as he acts like them.
The Bundeswehr is no marginal force itself, only being behind the USA in terms of overseas deployments. Neither is the Luftwaffe.
The Bundeswehr deployed broomsticks a year or so ago. Didn’t have any machine guns for their tanks. Putin just destroyed 100 miles of European border. Murdered 10,000 Europeans. Invaded multiple European countries with his army while threatening nuclear war. And what did Germany and France do militarily? Nothing.