Commentary “Is Germany a Reliable American Ally? Nein,” reads the headline in a recent Wall Street Journal commentary that damns Germany for considering “cheap gas, car exports to China and keeping Mr. Putin calm to be more important than allied democratic solidarity.” “Germany’s pivot from America,” another recent headline, this time in Politico, comes largely to the same conclusion. “Under the influence of a potent cocktail of energy and commercial interests, and a political culture laced with good old-fashioned anti-Americanism, Germany has strayed from the Western fold,” it argues. These reports and others of Germany and the United States being increasingly at odds are unfortunately accurate. What’s inaccurate is resting the blame on Germany. The United States is losing Germany as an ally and a friend because of its repeated attempts to bully Germany into hewing to an American conviction that Russia is an irredeemable enemy. Nord Stream 2, a pipeline …