Goodbye, old tightwad Germany. Berlin approves an epic spending spree for everything from tanks to tunnels

Open this photo in gallery: Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz speaks during an extraordinary session of the outgoing lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, for a vote to adopt the draft law to reform constitutional debt rules and set up a 500 billion euro infrastructure fund, in Berlin, on March 18.Liesa Johannssen/Reuters Germany has waved auf wiedersehen to the peace dividend. The country that let its military rot away after the end of the Cold War is about to embark on its biggest rearmament program since the 1930s, as Donald Trump signals that the transatlantic alliance is about to get watered…