Well, there's this whole thing about alliances, fighting together under the nuclear shadow, etc. Maybe there just comes a point at which being a blue falcon doesn't make as much sense as carrying through on a deal. The Germans did start WW3, and the US did back them up, and the US did play the nuclear game when at any point the Americans could have decided that they could have taken their ball and gone home. Maybe the Germans who are still in command are the kinds of folks to whom that sort of thing means more than a tanker full of unrefined oil.
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