Especially if they never make any attempt to do so, which they won’t. The truth is that the the Germans have always looked to Russia for resources and wouldn’t buy our stuff if it was cheaper and easier. The Russians and the Germans are both bad news from way back. Neither country gives a damn how badly their deals screw supposedly allied countries that aren’t Germany or Russia. They have both been that way for most of the past century or so.
Look it’s a matter of geography, not politics.
Germany is importing a million muslims, and needs to import energy to keep growing ( their own bad choices to abandon domestic energy production)
So look at where its going to come from.
TransAtlantic shipping to North Sea ports
Pipelines through Ukraine that steals Russian gas and doesn’t pay its bills
Direct from Russian gas fields through a pair of high capacity undersea pipelines through international or friendly watersc