For decades, Germany’s relationship with the United States was not just strategic, it was personal. The US backed West Germany’s democratic rebuild after 1945, anchored its security through NATO, and became a kind of reference point for what the postwar German state wanted to be. That is why the mood shift described across Berlin now feels so raw. People who built their careers around transatlantic ties are suddenly asking whether the partnership they took for granted is still there, the Financial Times reported. Why this feels different in Germany Plenty of European countries have tense moments with Washington. Germany’s reaction...