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No one forgot, since those are the same period revealed by the Snowden leaks, the Germans just stopped trying to make an issue of Americans spying on Merkel as a breach of trust or friendly relations when someone leaked information that the Germans had been doing the same on other European allies and partners hand-in-hand with the US for years, so Merkel's protests were a little hypocritical.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/30/germany-spied-on-european-partners-on-behalf-of-us-for-years
The previous German government was a wee bit preoccupied with other events at the time- the European migration crisis, the rise of the right in Europe, and Crimea amoung them- and once the effort to get into the FVEY alliance failed, the German government didn't have much reason to keep re-elevating the topic when their own sins would be very easily revealed as well.
In normal parlance, this is called 'lobbying' and 'diplomacy.' If you'd like the publicly-facing website of how the Germans do it in reverse, their website is below. https://www.germany.info/us-en
The reason the Minsk process was forgotten is that the Russians and the German/French-backed Ukrainians had divergent interpretations. When Russia gave up the effort of having the Germans and French back its interpretation of Minsk- which would have functionally broken Ukraine as a unified state due to the special status and veto rights to be given to the Russian-backed parts- there was no use for it. In so much that the US had a role in the failure of the Minsk proposal, it was in backing either the Germans or the French or both, not in overruling them.
Lots of things benefit the Americans, which certainly wouldn't be without precedent, but this is a pretty vague and unspecific note. The US isn't exactly known for doing direct actions on treaty-ally infrastructure, though, but then that's not what you're claiming so shrugs.
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