What Hanson is pointing out here is symptomatic of a national case of passive-aggressive disorder, not any chronic pacifism. Germany has, since reunification, used its resources well. Unfortunately some of those resources happened to be other countries', who are now impatient at Germany's stubborn self-satisfaction at its own prosperity, earned, to be sure, and its resentment at being reminded of the sources not always her own, and met by an ostensibly altruistic desire to address it by importing the disadvantaged who, unfortunately, also happen to be antithetical to the German culture responsible for the prosperity. The result is a net drain on the welfare state. Milton Friedman famously stated that one cannot have open borders and a welfare state at the same time. Germany is demonstrating why not.
It isn't up to the United States or any country other than Germany herself to cure this set of misconceptions and false cures. Disengagement will help. And for her neighbors, vigilance and preparation for what are likely to be some difficult times across the border. The Muslim is now far larger than the Jewish population ever was, and that's going to cause some real problems in the place of those that were once imaginary.
Goethe said it best of his fellow Germans when he said they were ‘’noble in the individual’’ and ‘’wretched in the collective’’.