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Why would German business interests turn down lucrative contracts to supply heavily marked up commodities to a captive clientele? And why would the German state government interfere with the finances of prolific political donors?
Maybe the German citizenry could boycott the bases. But they'd need a large nationalist labor movement for that kind of effort. And I'm not seeing it happen in a nation as sharply divided along regional and ethnic lines.
Not until after the Korean War, and the official entrance of West Germany to NATO, did the goal shift to Soviet containment. The original explicit stated purpose of the organization was to prevent German re-militarization - a perceived error of the original WW1 settlement. Soviet Russia was considered an ally and partner in this purpose under FDR and only became a belligerent under Truman, in the scramble to entrench capitalism as the primary economic model of the Pacific Rim.
If they wanted them gone bad enough, they could starve them out. I'm not sure how you've convinced yourself that isn't a possible option for them, if pushed far enough. I'm not saying they will but the idea that they couldn't is just ridiculous.
Nato was formed in 1949 which was before the korea war and was always about preventing soviet aggression. No amount of pretending otherwise will change that. Britain and America had already occupied Germany after ww2 and that didn't officially end until 1955. I get it, you don't like nato but you're not doing you side any favours here.
Who is "they"? Clearly, the German business class don't want American soldiers gone. They're a profit center. And the locals who have to deal with these dickbags running around, crashing vehicles, assaulting people at bars, and otherwise making anyone within half a mile of a base miserable clearly don't have any kind of actual economic control of the municipalities.
Why wasn't West Germany invited until six years later?
Your mad scrambling to not back down over a very silly statement is getting boring now. The fact that you genuinely think that there's literally nothing Germany could ever do to be rid of American soldiers, if they wanted to, is just bizzare and has no basis in reality.
Because of WW2. You've heard of that one right? Sheer desperation and very little thought going on here.