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“If everybody does just what they want, that’s bad news for the world,” Merkel said.
She and Trump is actually quite popular with the Germans favoring independence, strong borders and patriotism.
Germans have never liked U.S. President Donald Trump
TwoScoopsOfDragonEnergy saysThis must end.
It already has. When a NATO crisis hits (say, Russia invades Lithuania) and the US just puts in the bare minimum instead of carrying the full load like the Eurofreeloaders expect's it to, this will become very apparent.
MisterLefty saysGermans have never liked U.S. President Donald Trump
I wonder who he reminds them of.
It was unprecedented in history that the allies didn’t just keep Germany and Japan after WW2. We actually beat them handily and then let them have their countries back. No other conquering nation before had behaved like that.
FDR and Truman, who where the last presidents to really put the Germans in their place.
We even paid for their economic recovery after WW2, and even today we pay for their security.
Wow. No wonder we are the greatest country ever known to mankind.
Again, AMERICA! pays for its pathetic weakness.
Instead of doing what was right - nuke Berlin, take all Germans as slaves and repeal the 13th Amendment and adapt the 3/5ths clause of the flawless constitution for the enslavement of war criminals as just spoils of war - AMERICA! let the huns run wild and despoil Europe and set the stage for the jihadi invasion that is destroying the west.
When did AMERICA! start to hate FREEDOM! so much?
Wait... so Putin is bad and deals with Putin are treasonous...until Trump opposes those deals and then they are completely correct in every obvious and morally certain way?!
Trump is Putin’s puppet, but if Trump opposes Putin he’s a traitor?
You Lefties need to get your stories straight. Your “narrative” makes about as much sense as a Rorschach diagram drawn by an autistic weasel!
The Germans believe that Trump is an aberration rather than an American direction. That said, Trumpites or Alt-right are only 10% of the Americans
Once America turns to protectionism, it accelerates its decline
adarmiento says
I got a better idea. The USA could look the other way when Russia and its Eastern Europe allies overtake Berlin
Exactly - and THEN! nuke it and take the survivors as SLAVES! exactly as the founding fathers intended!
The Germans are right. Trump is an aberration to the general direction America is heading towards. Sometimes we need an aberration to prevent us from being overly complacent.
It is their alliance with conservatives and religious right which has them ruling America. The economic recovery under Obama has now continued under Trump, partly thanks to tax cuts. But this recovery cannot continue forever. The new paradigm dictates that the rural economy is going to be hit much harder than urban and suburban. Not sure how the Trump voters are going to react as most of them are the rural "forgotten" men, likely to affected much harder than rest of the country. Will l they get played again by Trump . Will Trump break from rest of the "free trade" republicans are start putting tariffs. Most likely he will.
Anyways getting back to Germany. Once America turns to protectionism, it accelerates its decline and Europe and China will take over the roles. China with its aggressive military policy may not be able lead the world leaving the world to be
German Chancellor Angel Merkel vented her frustration with Trump in a speech in the North Rhine-Westphalia city of Muenster on Friday, saying his Iran decision “undermines trust in the international order.” “If everybody does just what they want, that’s bad news for the world,” Merkel said.
This outburst coincided with one of the most provocative covers Germany’s highly respected weekly Der Spiegel ever published — an outstretched middle finger bearing Trump’s likeness, with the English caption, “Goodbye, Europe!” Spiegel’s editorial to go with this image called on Europe to join the anti-Trump resistance:
The West as we once knew it no longer exists. Our relationship to the United States cannot currently be called a friendship and can hardly be referred to as a partnership. President Trump has adopted a tone that ignores 70 years of trust. He wants punitive tariffs and demands obedience. It is no longer a question as to whether Germany and Europe will take part in foreign military interventions in Afghanistan or Iraq. It is now about whether trans-Atlantic cooperation on economic, foreign and security policy even exists anymore. The answer: No.
These are strong words. But of course, there was nothing in Merkel’s speech about dissolving Germany’s alliance with the U.S., and the Spiegel editorial only calls on Europe to “begin preparing for a post-Trump America and seek to avoid provoking Washington until then.” The German establishment appears to believe that Trump is the problem and that the time-honored European approach — waiting for the problem to go away, as Europe is already doing with its conciliatory plan to stave off Trump’s threatened steel and aluminum tariffs — is the best bet.
Europe’s defense dependency on America also serves as a reality check. No matter how many times Merkel may tell Trump that Germany plans to raise its defense spending to the 2 percent of gross domestic product demanded by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, her government’s current budget proposal only increases it to 1.29 percent of GDP in 2019 from 1.24 percent this year — and envisions a drop to 1.23 percent in 2022. “One must say, quite simply, that Europe alone isn’t strong enough to be the global peacekeeper,” Merkel said in Muenster.
German voters, however, don’t care so much about that. The Pew Research Center and Germany’s Koerber Stiftung recently compared Americans’ and Germans’ views of bilateral relations and found that while Americans say security and defense ties are the most important aspect of the relationship, to Germans economic ties and shared democratic values hold more significance.
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-05-14/germany-is-getting-fed-up-with-trump-and-america