alt Hacker NewsThere is little the US could have done more to harm Europe and Germany in particular than engaging in the Iranian conflict. Qatar was supposed to be the replacement for lacking Russian deliveries.
In addition the current government is pro fossile fuels, and parts of it are the same south germans that keep building natural gas power plants.
Those plants play an important part in driving up electricity prices in the whole country, since the same people that insist on using natural gas also refuse to split the country into electricity price zones.
You could have invested in nuclear instead of adopting a broadly popular anti-nuclear policy.
The EU could have also enforced the JCPOA as one of it's guaranteers but decided to be inward facing instead of treating the 2014 invasion of Ukraine as the wake up call that it should have been.
We have been saying for almost 20 years that we in the US are shifting East, but Western and Northern European states like Germany did nothing to prepare for such a world.
At least the French establish military bases, conduct coups, and attempt to project hard power abroad in order to protect their interests.