“Aside from this troubling situation, Germany is going through some major tribulations with its naval arm, including the embarrassing reality that the country currently has no operational submarines.”
They’re too concerned with diversity enforcement to pay for an actual military.
Germans spend 1.2% of their GDP on defense, roughly $40 billion, depending how you count it.
In that same range are Japan (1%), Canada (1%), Netherlands (1.2%) and Spain (1.2%).
None of them do enough to support their own defense, much less contribute to international missions like NATO or SEATO.