Is America losing Germany?

Germany is noted to be the America’s most important European ally, but the relationship between the two countries is shaky.

On Thursday, Germany ejected a top CIA agent from Berlin. This unusual move is addressed to the lack of cooperation from the United States in clarifying recent spying cases. Those cases involved revelation that the CIA tried to recruit a German secret service staffer to sell classified information and the probability that a German Defense Ministry employee had been working for U.S intelligence.

 In recent poll, only 35% of Germans said that the United can be trusted and the rest proves that many of them still have no confidence in the middle of continued public uproar about the NSA’s tapping of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cell phone.

Germans are very sensitive on their data protection. This is what they got from Stalinist and Nazi traditions of thorough surveillance and terror which has become part of their long history.

 Most of the German business community are doing their best to protect their investments in Russia from U.S led approval. Almost every Germans around their 20s and 30s clearly understand that United States has been spying on friendly nations and their leaders, renditions and targeted killings.

America’s image nowadays is portrayed like a paranoid society that is no longer capable of identifying friends and foes anymore. This cause America to lose its integrity and power in the whole world.

This distorted image of US can be neglected but it always matter. As one Berlin policy maker noted that the U.S is digging its own grave with regard to its global leadership aspiration.

 German’s disappointment and anger is equal to the high expectations of the Obama era. Most opinions stated that US can no longer or should no longer be trusted anymore and any special relationships is gone for good.