my guess is that what's driving donald trump is his misunderstanding of sovereign debt. he thinks he should pay the debt down, so he's selling off domestic assets to foreign buyers in exchange for tax revenue that he can use to "pay off the debt to china". he thinks he's leveraging friendly investments to buy the country out of a hole.

you cannot fault the germans for taking advantage of his ignorance.

but it means that the united states now has a long period in front of it where it's under the thumb of german economic colonialism. and, they're even sending them weapons to use to enforce it.

germany is not a friend or an ally, it's a vanquished and conquered enemy, and the united states is about to learn the hard way what happens when you take your boot off a country you've been holding in submission for 80 years.

it won't like what happens.

canada needs to get out of the way, but it can't. it should wait.