See my other response regarding Germany’s very real participation in full, ecomomic plunder-style imperialism:

It isn’t just that Germany has a strengthened millitary industrial complex, it’s that Germany is an active and willing participant in imperialism today. The west in general super-exploits the global south for super-profits, relying on financial domination of the global south and processes of unequal exchange. Germany in particular is especially predatory towards lesser developed European countries like Greece, and due to having a huge amount of influence over European finance and banking is one of the major beneficiaries of European imperialism towards African and other global south countries.

I’m calling it imperialism precisely to not muddy the waters. Economic imperialism is how the west functions, past and present, and this is due to the dominance of finance capital and unequal exchange. The idea that imperialism was a thing of the past, and that Germany today runs largely on its own production and not the economic plunder it continues to extract (along with the west collectively) is fundamentally incorrect.