Posted on 05/28/2017 3:34:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
For all the ink spilled about Trump being a loose cannon, there are no surprises here. Bad relations with Germany if he won were a fait accompli. This is the course Americans chose. Now we get the consequences, for better or worse.
The last 70 years of peace in Europe were pretty boring.
“The times in which we could completely depend on others are on the way out. I’ve experienced that in the last few days,” Merkel told a crowd at an election rally in Munich, southern Germany.
“We Europeans truly have to take our fate into our own hands,” she added…
The chancellor had just returned from a G7 summit which wound up Saturday without a deal between the US and the other six major advanced nations on upholding the 2015 Paris climate accords.
Merkel on Saturday labelled the result of the “six against one” discussion “very difficult, not to say very unsatisfactory”.
Trump made his feelings plain this week. Upbraiding Europe for not meeting its defense obligations under NATO was fair, but doing it without an explicit affirmation of America’s commitment to Article 5 undercut the importance of the alliance. He wouldn’t commit to the Paris Accord on climate change either — also foreseeable given his campaign promises to revisit the treaty — and reportedly told his inner circle that he intends to withdraw from the agreement. He called Germany “very bad” on trade even though German automakers employ more than 100,000 Americans. All of that came amid profound philosophical disagreements about immigration and the fact that Trump palpably seems more interested in better relations with Moscow than with Berlin. Merkel finally took the hint.
Since 1945, the supreme strategic goal in Europe of the USSR and then Russia was the severing of the US-German alliance. Trump delivered.
— David Frum (@davidfrum) May 28, 2017
Believe me, Germany’s future nuclear arsenal will be the best nuclear arsenal. Really terrific!
Maybe this’ll be smoothed over the next time we have a multilateralist Democrat or hawkish Republican in the White House, but I don’t know. If Merkel thought this was nothing more than a Trump-related blip in U.S. relations, would she have made comments as dramatic as these? Right-wing nationalists in the U.S. loathe her for her open-borders policy towards the Middle East and admire various elements of Putinism — his “strength” towards enemies, his image as a defender of Christianity against the leftist/Islamist hordes, his effort to boost nationalists like Trump and Le Pen by sabotaging their electoral opponents. That sentiment will survive Trump’s presidency; the only question is how much of the right will adopt it.
Democrats, meanwhile, are drifting away from Obama/Clinton-style neoliberalism towards harder leftism, which is skeptical of NATO for its own reasons. Bernie Sanders sounded a lot like Trump at times during the last campaign when discussing NATO, once suggesting that we should build a new alliance for the age of terrorism that incorporates not just NATO allies but Russia as well. The far-left candidate in France’s election, Jean-Luc Melenchon, was also soft on Putin. Trump’s next Democratic opponent will be a Russia hawk for reasons of pure partisanship, because suspicions of collusion between him and Putin run so deep among liberals, but in 2024? Who knows if either party’s nominee will want to revive the U.S.-German anti-Russian alliance, especially if Trump has succeeded in the interim in making some sort of grand bargain with Moscow.
But it’s not all necessarily bad news. Maybe the EU, anchored by the French-German alliance, is built to last — for awhile — and will begin to pick up the burden of providing for its own defense. Germany will develop nuclear weapons so that it’s not outgunned by traditional enemies to its west and east; eastern Europe will begin to militarize more aggressively knowing that U.S. support against Russia is no longer a given and that Berlin won’t play nice forever. So long as the threat from Russia looms large, Europe has a reason to hang together. And what happens long-term if Russia remains a fading power with a weak oil-dependent economy, removing the urgency for friendly relations among European countries? Probably nothing good! But that’s a problem for President Ivanka to worry about circa 2050.
Here’s France’s new president, Emmanuel Macron, at the NATO summit greeting the leader of the new dominant power in Europe. Look at it this way: By 2100, it’ll all be part of the caliphate anyway.
The muslims will accomplish what the third reich failed to achieve with europe.
The european elite have sown the seeds of their own demise.
>Europe is going Muslim.
Even people with good agnostic intentions will allow those that purport peace in society without ever seeing the danger of a religious ruled government system. Too many people are ignorant to being lied to.
islam is pure evil hidden behind the innocents of its followers. isis gets a foothold because the people are ignorant and unwilling to say no.
If evil insists with a friendly tone...kill it.
More anti-American drivel from uber NeverTrumper Allahpunk
Israel could of and should have said the same thing about the Odumbo regime.
Merkel prefers Urkel. Sie ist eine fette Sau.
Hey, AllahPunk, quit thinking Mittens is ever going to happen. He’s a loser, like you.
“More anti-American drivel from uber NeverTrumper Allahpunk!”
Posted by FR’s Uber #1 Never Trumpster!
Thank God! It's about time! The training wheels are off!
Well said. But Europeans find themselves with a
communistic elite who have outlawed free speech.
They can’t educate themselves and each other because
they can’t speak.
The globalists (communists/muslims) are even deleting
free speech from the internet as fast as they can.
A German-French alliance huh. Clearly the Germans will dominate that alliance.
Way past your time to leave Never Trumper Loon and take the globalist hell on earth with you and Salem Uniparty Media with ya too .
As far as Europe not expecting any United States help (or freebies) in the Twenty-First Century - we will all be better for it. Europe needs to make their own bed, and not expect the United States to bail them out of their recent Islamic invasion. Europe (at least Western Europe) invited them in - they'll need to get rid of them themselves.
And if Europe wants to power their Industry on Unicorn farts - go for it. We'll stick with Carbon based fuels (hopefully - given that we aren't overwhelmed by the Gore-ons...)
I do think we should sit the next one out. France needs Krauts in order to keep the cobblestones tamped down really snug.
I think there still would have been Communism or Nazism , some desperate nation state would have tried it. If Germany had won WWI it probably would have been France or maybe still Russia. Few people remember that the UK was headed for a huge crisis over home rule for Ireland. Parts of the army were ready to munity.
How reliable is she in the war we are actually in, allowing Germany to be invaded by an army of military age young Muslim men?
Nothing about Merkel having trouble with her opponent, Social Democrat Martin Schulz.
There would have been 'something' that occurred - but the Kaiser would not have allowed Lenin and the Bolsheviks to have 'off'd' the Romanoff family - and I don't believe whatever other thugs might have come out of the 20th Century would have matched Stalin and Mao in their level as sociopaths. And without those 'role-models' - I doubt we'd have seen Pol Pot, and Ho Chi Minh. At least they wouldn't have gone full psycho - like Pol Pot killing off nearly 40% of his population, and Ho Chi Minh killing nearly one million land owners. Mao taught them that brutality and terror was a necessity.
And I doubt Hitler would have gotten any traction had their not been a Treaty of Versailles (which was guaranteed to embitter the German people - and have them demand vengeance). I seriously doubt he'd have gotten beyond 'crack-pot' prestige had there not been a Treaty of Versailles.
The “model” of ruthlessness was already established - The French Revolution & Robespierre. Both Lenin & Stalin expressed admiration. Go back and read accounts of some the proposals that came out of the assembly for maintaining “revolutionary fervent “, the Norah Koreans couldn’t write anything more ridiculous & chilling!
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