German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attends the Bundestag's Committee of Inquiry into Afghanistan, in Berlin Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. (Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP)

Yuriko Backes, left, Defence Minister of Luxembourg, is welcomed by German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius, right, for a meeting in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa via AP)

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, and defence minister Boris Pistorius attend a plenary session in the German parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)