hey Frank,du kannst mich mal
Posted on 04/28/2016 10:36:09 AM PDT by Rusty0604
Yes our policy for a long time has been to try to make all these countries happy and hand out money and goodies so they will love and respect us. That has failed miserably. Most other countries hate our guts and have zero respect or trust for us.
What we need to do is what is best for our country and mean what we say, be honest and fair in our dealings even when we have to tell another country we are not going to do things their way.
If we do that, more countries will actually like and respect us, and those that still hate us will at least respect that we will do what we say we will.
Well the loonies in power in so many countries including ours seem to think we need to put everyone else first, global interests first. It is not working anywhere on the planet but that never stops people from being stubborn with their failed policies.
Not only that, but since Obama has been in office, our allies have lost faith and trust in us and, in many circumstances, laughing at us, and not behind our backs, but in our face....
Trump’s seriousness and his aggressiveness will open their eyes and see that America means business again...
Frank-Walter Steinmeier is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who has served as the Minister for Foreign Affairs since 2013.
Despite Trump’s wishes, the German foreign minister said he believes that the property tycoon would have difficulty changing the status-quo if he is elected president.
“No American president can get round this change in the international security architecture,” Steinmeier said, adding that this was why “’America first’ is actually no answer to that.”
Steinmeier also accused Trump of being contradictory in his statements by calling for American interests to be put first, while at the same time looking for Washington to scale back its interests around the globe.
“Those two things don’t seem to fit together very well to me,” he said.
this socialist is both brain dead and delusional.
The free ride is over for these America-hating a**holes, but they haven’t got to anger yet, they are still in denial.
The run up to that conflict, and the speed at which major powers met in the field, was astonishing. I looked it up and the Archduke was assasinated on June 28th 1914 and by Aug 4th the Germans were in Belgium, by Aug 7 they were fighting the French, and by Aug 17 the Russians had invaded. Major open warfare, between major superpowers, on two major fronts inside a months time.
That is crazy.
Hey..how’s the raping of women and children going Fritz?
I do not mean to say they did not deserve what they got. If you fight a war, and lose, well you get what you deserve.
But we look at WWI through a prism heavily influenced by Hitler and WWII.
But to your point, was Germany planning on taking out France and Russia? Absolutely, and it hinged on Russia being slow like usual. Take France out before Russia can get all those troops from the far reaches of their land mobilized.
But what history forgets, is that Russia had already moved most of its forces to the west (at great risk to the east). They were getting ready for something, and it wasn’t that they knew Germany would invade Belgium.
History is so neat, I love it! Absolutely filled with what if’s and who knew whats....
That coalition government explains a lot about what Merkel's government is doing now. If her party were in power by itself, without a partner, or if it partnered with a more conservative party, Merkel's refugee policy might be different. Or not.
But we look at WWI through a prism heavily influenced by Hitler and WWII.
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Perhaps some people do, but I do not.
There existed a totally different mentality in W.W. I, as brutal as it was. The entire World changed because of W.W. I.
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ended Russia’s support of the Triple Entente in Mar., 1918. It was a brutal treaty which heavily penalized Russia. Tangled up in their own Civil War, between Czarist Russia and the Bolsheviks, Russia wasn’t much good anyway. Nevertheless, the defeat of Germany a few months later, Nov. 1918, and the Versailles Treaty repaired some of the damage done. Then Germany complained about The Treaty of Versailles and later claimed it was the reason for W.W. II. Sore losers.
I love history too. I’ve visited most of the battlefields of WWI on the Continent as well as many of those of WWII.
Am finishing writing two books and will be starting a third this summer.....WWI and WWII.(One is non-fiction) I remember the 2nd War and all the wars since.
hey Frank,du kannst mich mal
What an awesome project!
I guess my point is that German heritage has taken quite a hit due to the events of Hitler and WWII, so much so that the average German is not really socially allowed to look back with pride on anything.
I believe this is why they are where they are as a country.
I think you’re correct to a great extent. I have a German friend who has been in America since the late 50’s, but has shared many of the stories of her life during the war. She still carries an intense guilt for what her country did.
The scars are still deep in Europe, particularly France and Belgium, and England of course. I believe every American should visit Normandy...stand on the top of Pointe de Hoc and look at the craters from the shelling, then down to the sea far below and remember the Rangers who climbed those sheer rock walls to reach the top. Omaha Beach will take your breath away. It is very much as it was when our boys landed, and so is Utah beach. Utah, however, was a shorter distance to the dunes whereas Omaha is immense....so much sand and so many obstacles to cross under heavy fire before they could reach the dunes. The American Cemetery is incredible...just under 10,000 graves. The rows on rows of crosses and stars of David in a pristine setting of perfectly tended grass and trees, with masses of roses near the walls. It is beautiful beyond imagining and very sobering too.
Any country, that doesn’t think the POTUS should put America First on it’s priority list, is not a friend of the U.S.
Every leader of EVERY country should be the leader of it’s people, and should put their own country and their own people first.
I am scratching my head at this, mainly because there are folks in the media, who have to have some sort of a brain, who see this as a bad thing for America. I just don’t get it.
What they are not is idealistic or altruistic. Compulsive denial of reality is never a virtue.
Isn’t compulsive denial of reality a marker of severe mental illness? How did we allow such people to gain so much power?
What is really also tragic in all of this, is that the make believe notions of human interchangeability & the imagined magical effects of engineering artificial social environment, etc.; the fantasies work to the disadvantage of everyone. You cannot solve the problems of anyone by ignoring the real roots of anyone's problems. And this is how they approach almost all of the dynamics of human interaction.
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