Until there is a drastic re-awakening of the German public, don’t expect military spending to increase drastically any time soon.
After World War II the victorious allied powers wanted the people of Germany to abandon their support for militarism. They did. I think that a lot of Germans do not want their government to spend heavily on the German military machine.
I believe that NATO members have an obligation to spend 2% of GDP on defence so the German government could push the line to the citizens of Germany that it has to increase spending on defence (especially with Trump’s recent pressure to do this). Perhaps that could provide funds for an involvement in another fighter project. Would that please the USA? Doubt it. They would much prefer to have less competition for their own products. The American line seems to be that they would like countries like Germany to spend more on defence and for as much as possible to be spent on supporting the US defence industry at the cost of their own.
You talk of the risk involved with using Russia as an energy supplier. Russia could break supply contracts. What about the risk of using USA as a supplier of military materiel? You can’t rely on USA not to break contracts. Congress takes a dislike to you being supplied and suddenly your contracts with US suppliers are unilaterally broken. The lesson: don’t buy from Russia or America unless you are prepared to have them trying to control your internal and external policies and actions.
For energy independence develop indigenous wind, solar etc energy supplies. The technology is becoming cost effective – for example studies show that it would be cheaper to generate energy through wind rather than nuclear where a new nuclear power plant is proposed in the west of England.
For defence independence develop national/multinational weapons systems.
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