> Yeah it's only the third largest economy in the world

You can both be the 3rd biggest economy in the world and still only be 1/10th of US+China GDPs combined.

And only three companies in the Top 100 for Germany:

https://companiesmarketcap.com/

Germany is the kingdom of the "mittelstand": many, many, many SMEs.

Both GP and you are right: it's the 3rd largest economy in the world and yet it's simply not that big.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelstand

In other words: I expect this German DNS SNAFU to have 0.000000001% impact on the world's GDP this year.

How is 1/10th the size of number 1 and 2 COMBINED small? In what world is that a small number? Especially as those two are 1.8 billion people vs 0.08 billion for Germany

what's SME?