It tends to come from russian propaganda efforts. They have to make this look like they're fighting the US and not a bunch of sovereign, not enemy nations.

Hardly any euro state has real power when it comes to real decisions. Most of the euro states are politically heavily influenced by financial injections from the US. Military bases everywhere. US companies everywhere. All tech is dominated by the US. Of course Russia sees the US as the master country and euro countries as their puppets.

For a “sovereign” nation Germany is awfully dependent on Putin for energy and the US for defense.

My position is not that Germany has no agency it’s that it traded away it’s much of its agency to appease the Greens.

These opinions come not from American TV but from my relatives.

Freistaat Bayern uber alles!

Sorry about taking over Europe again, hope you are enjoying the EU dictating your countries economic fortunes.