Posted on 11/23/2016 9:29:53 AM PST by keat
Chancellor Angela Merkel defended democratic values and multilateral cooperation on Wednesday, but insisted Germany "can't solve all problems" in the world.
Merkel evoked the experience of Germany's post-war division to stress that democracy and freedom cannot be taken for granted, saying Europe should work with the United States and other allies to defend those values.
With the imminent departure of U.S. President Barack Obama, Merkel, 62 years old and already in power for 11 years, is left as the senior leader anchoring a Western alliance shaken by Donald Trump's U.S. election victory.
"I am deeply convinced that openness will bring us more security than isolation," she told the Bundestag lower house of parliament in a 40-minute speech on her government's priorities.
Without naming him, she appealed to Trump to work together. Rejecting isolationism, she made a plea to "defend our values, which we consider right and important, not just at home but by trying to support them with our European partners, with the United States, with allies around the world."
Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, made attacks on international trade deals a cornerstone of his election campaign, during which he also slammed members of the NATO alliance for not paying enough for their own defense.
Merkel, who on Sunday rejected the responsibility that was pushed onto her after Trump's win as "grotesque and absurd", clearly circumscribed the limits of Germany's international leadership.
"We cannot tackle all the world's hunger, nor can we solve the problems of 65 million refugees, nor can we change the political order everywhere the way we would like it," she said.
"I say that we should work with others to frame globalisation on the basis of common ground and multilateralism," she said.
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Oh, and by the way, we can handle our own "values" here in the USA without any backhanded lectures from European socialists. And those values may no longer include squashing free speech or coddling Muslim terrorists, inside and outside our borders.
You thought what Obama did to Volkswagen was bad, wait until Trump drops the old NATO bill on you.
Angela, SUBMISSION TO ISLAM does not equal “liberalism”.
A country that fails to defend its national identity will cease to exist.
Yup. its quite clear why Frau Merkel is a champion of liberal values.
But they aren’t conservative values - at least not what her own CDU no longer thinks is worth upholding.
How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think. Adolf Hitler
“I am deeply convinced that openness will bring us more security than isolation,”
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Openness to muslim immigration will only bring bloodshed and misery.
Read some history of Islam.
In the last days of the DDR, the Communist leadership couldn’t find a solution that would preserve the country.
Communism wasn’t the answer then, period.
Fast forward a generation later and Frau Merkel doesn’t want to find a solution to preserve Germany.
Multiculturalism is not the answer, period.
“Chancellor Angela Merkel defended democratic values and multilateral cooperation on Wednesday, but insisted Germany “can’t solve all problems” in the world.”
Liberalism and democratic values are diametrically opposed.”
She’s defending “liberalism?”
what a joke!!
Well, since today’s version of Liberalism is basically Fascism, I agree, she certainly is....
“I say that we should work with others to frame globalisation on the basis of common ground and multilateralism,” she said.
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LOCK HER UP!
Globalist idiot.
We should listen to the Germans. They were instrumental in bringing about two of the largest events of the 20th century
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