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 Europes 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 Europes 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 Trumps policies, the West has become smaller.
Merkels remarks came after a Group of Seven summit at which the Europeans couldnt 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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Good point.
Simple answers? Problem: Germany needs more young people in the workforce. Solution: Let in fake refugees from Syria.
The Germans, especially the old West Germany, in the late 60’s relied on cheaper transient labor from other European nations. I seem to recall Italians and a few others who escape my mind these days.
There are no easy answers’ but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
-Ronald Reagan
Merkel- now in serious competition for Germany’s worst leader ever.
Chancellor Angela Merkel cautioned Monday against seeking simple answers to complex global issues,
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Crooked politicians love complexity. It makes it easier to get away with their crimes and lies.
Merkel Logic
Muslims are peaceful
Muslims will integrate easily into German society
Global Warming is real not a scam, despite the fact that south polar ice is at record thickness and temps are not getting warmer so now the liars call it climate change instead of global warming
Nato has a voluntary dues, and Germany doesn’t have to pay arrears on what it owes.
Germany is Europes richest country, it got that way by stiffing the USA.
We should move our 50,000 troops out of Germany to Poland.
That is great! Small world!
In my opinion, once a German turns Communist they are no longer German or even human! I know how that sounds, given Germany is the birthplace of Karl Marx.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Sometime changing the temperatures on the records is just simple fraud.
Actually the solutions to most of the world’s problems are incredibly simple, it’s about having the GUTS and INTEGRITY to implement those solutions.
Besides, “simple” solutions don’t usually lend themselves to graft, deception and bribery.
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