By far the biggest challenge for Germans will be to understand that in order to decouple from the USA, it is not enough to simply stop buying their stuff. You have to stop unconditionally believing what American persons and institutions claim, and this especially applies to claims of the past.

Because how can you be truly free from your old master when they can still control your thoughts through past lies? But Germans, by and large, aren't even cognizant of the origin of their beliefs. They hold their assertions true to their hearts like immutable laws of nature, imprinted on them since childhood. To them, these claims about China, about North Korea, about Iran and Russia, might as well be the word of god. Unshakeable axioms.

And as long as this remains the case, they will never truly be free.