Trump Foreign Policy Speech Alarms Allies [semi-satire]

Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 1 May 2016 | John Semmens

[John Semmens]

GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump's emphasis that the guiding principle for foreign policy under his administration will be "America first" has made some of our European allies nervous.

Germany's foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier characterized Trump's stance as "arrogant and selfish. To put America first is offensive to my ears. He is denying our equality and our right to participate in determining what America must do to protect all of our mutual interests. If this kind of self-centered viewpoint had prevailed in an earlier era my country and perhaps all of western Europe would today be run by fascists or communists."

Carl Bildt, a former Swedish prime minister and foreign minister concurred. "Trump is disrespecting democratic processes and democratic values," Bildt charged. "He makes no provision for our vote. Becoming America's president won't make him king. He would not have the prerogative to shrug off the obligations the United States has assumed and on which the rest of the free world has depended for three-quarters of a century without our acquiescence."

British Prime Minister David Cameron said "Trump's demand that we be required to fund a minimum share of the cost of our defense is unprecedented. This is not how things have been done for more than seven decades. We haven't budgeted for the kind of outlays this would entail. We can't afford it."

German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel suggested that "our only viable option might be to call a President Trump's bluff. If we look like we'll be overrun by communists, fascists, or Islamists the United States would have to come to our rescue. Otherwise they'd be left alone to face an entire world hostile to their own survival."

In related news, President Obama praised Germany's "open door" policy on refugees from the Middle East, saying "it has set an example that others should follow. If the various different ethnic and religious peoples were more uniformly dispersed around the globe the incentives for nations to fight one another would be diminished."

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[CaptainAmiigaf]

To those who weepingly claim they cannot afford to pay a fair share of their own defense because “They cannot afford it” this must be asked.
“What makes YOU think that WE can afford to pay your bills?”
We willingly bear the cost of defense “WELFARE” for obvious reasons, but not at a cost that harms OUR country.

[BenLurkin]

Sound all like plausible quotes.

[The_Victor]

We have allies?

I thought 0bama took care of that.