Posted on 05/29/2017 10:18:16 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Chancellor Angela Merkel cautioned Monday against seeking “simple answers” to complex global issues, a day after suggesting that Europe’s relationship with the U.S. had shifted significantly following NATO and G-7 meetings with President Donald Trump that produced disappointing results.
The comments at an election rally Sunday in Bavaria, where Merkel stressed that “we Europeans must really take our destiny into our own hands,” were widely seen as acknowledgement from Europe’s most powerful leader of the changing dynamic of trans-Atlantic ties. Her foreign minister, a political rival, upped the rhetoric Monday by declaring that with Trump’s policies, “the West has become smaller.”
Merkel’s remarks came after a Group of Seven summit at which the Europeans couldn’t reach an agreement with Trump on climate change. “The times in which we can fully count on others are somewhat over, as I have experienced in the past few days,” she said. “And so all I can say is that we Europeans must really take our destiny into our own hands.”
Merkel also emphasized the continued need for friendly relations with the U.S. and others. Her spokesman Steffen Seibert, said Monday the chancellor is “a convinced trans-Atlanticist.” …
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The East German Hillary.
**** Western Europe.
Fine. Regale us with a complex answer.
So...”Yes” and “No” are off the books.
Social and economic structures are naturally self-organizing. They don’t need “answers”. Left alone, the systems will work out solutions in a natural fashion. Adam Smith talked about the “invisible hand”. It’s true for economics. It’s true for social problems.
The people who claim that “the answers are complex” are manipulators who are seeking their own advantage. They seek to create situations from which they themselves can profit. They aren’t trying to solve anything. They just want to win; which is to say: they want you to lose.
I imagine a simple conversation. TRUMP... we want you to get rid of the muslim refugees that are terrorists and quit bringing them into Europe and we want you to pay your share of NATO costs. MERKEL.... We will not be told what to do by you. TRUMP...Best of luck with that.
Simple answers for the simple minded.
Yet Merkel’s “Simple Answer” is to open the borders to millions of Muslim “refugees’
She must want to see Germany start another World War
Her world view has been shaken. Good.
Sometimes simple answers are called for.
Have you noticed she’s even dressing like Hillary now? Yikes, what a sight.
“Complex” is a favorite word of the elite, the intellectuals and those that want to control the masses.
Looks like Trump has her on the ropes. Good.
Very pithy, very true. Bore repeating.
[Chancellor Angela Merkel cautioned Monday against seeking “simple answers” to complex global issues, ]
Spoken like a true globalist manipulator.
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Merkel’s remarks came after a Group of Seven summit at which the Europeans couldn’t reach an agreement with Trump on climate change. “The times in which we can fully count on others are somewhat over, as I have experienced in the past few days,” she said. “And so all I can say is that we Europeans must really take our destiny into our own hands.”
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Really? “In your own hands?” ...and before that exactly WHO was “running” your destiny for you? Are you a self-managing adult country? Or “Failure-To-Launch” parent’s basement dwellers, letting others do the heavy worrying and lifting?
Idiots.
She’s crazy! Simple answers are always the best. For example:
Is “climate change” a huge fraud designed to fund the international left while destroying the american economy?
-Yes.
Should the USA withdraw from NATO?
-Yes
Are Euroweenies nothing more than a bunch of smug, condescending asswipes?
-Yes
See Angela. Simple works great!
The insulting smirks and smiles given to President Trump by the NATO “leaders” sure made them seem simple to me.
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