Posted on 06/23/2021 11:56:12 AM PDT by Olog-hai
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Germany on Wednesday and made clear that maintaining good relations would Berlin would be high on Washington’s agenda.
“I think it’s fair to say that the United States has no better partner, no better friend in the world than Germany,” Blinken said.
The visit is his second to Europe in just seven days, having accompanied President Joe Biden to leaders’ meetings at the G7 and NATO summits.
The US has been quick to emphasize the idea of a fresh start to relations with Germany, with Biden recently saying they were now “stronger than ever.” German Chancellor Angela Merkel didn’t go quite so far, saying, “We are building on a long history of good German-American relations.”
Merkel pointed to multilateralism as the key to problem-solving, noting that it was important not only to “call out geopolitical challenges by name, but also to craft solutions to them together.” She was also quick to add, “No matter what controversy we are talking about, we must always keep our channels of communication open.” …
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Those military budget chickens from 2014 are coming home to roost. Germany promised a large increase after Russia invaded Ukraine that is never going to happen.
Biggest deep state friend that is.
Horse apples.
“I think it’s fair to say that the United States has no better partner, no better friend in the world than Germany,” Blinken said
What an idiot this guy is turning out to be.
riiiight
first of all, Germany is overrun by foreigners who refuse to assimilate and who hate everything western except the cash. Second, Germany for decades has played footsie with Russia while insisting that America take an aggressive stance (so that Germany can use that stance to get kissycloser to Russia). Third, they’re socialists that demand America share in (foot the bill for) a socialist and communist EU’s self-caused problems, while at the same time culturally reinforce (reflect) their dictatorial policies towards their own citizens by instituting the same in America.
Merkel can go to hell. And Nodding Blinkin needs a head doc.
“No better friend than Germany”? So, in other words: no friends.
Germany and France have been the bullies of Europe for several centuries. They are the two largest economies and populations on the continent.
The UK was able to out do both of them due to THE navy in the world and THE empire in the world. Then WW1 and WW2 happened. The UK was the only country that paid her US WW2 debt in full. The Empire is gone, as is much of the navy. One of the countries she spawned, the US, is THE superpower remaining. Of course, XiJinBiden and Heels-up Ho are doing all they can to destroy the US.
Sorry, wrong bank of the river: she wishes to genocide the German people, not anybody else :-)
Sad but most probably true.
So said Winston Churchill before a Joint Session of Congress on May , 19th. 1943.
Whether or not this is his actual quote or not he did say it.
Sorry, but Churchill’s words show two things:
a) he was truly a master of the succinct, and
b) he hated the German people all his life. No way around it.
I guess he would be delighted if he saw Germany now: on its last legs and overrun by enemies, after having lost one third of her territory and between 6 and 7 million of her people.
However, I have a hunch he would be none too pleased with the situation in present-day Britain (or the USA, for that matter).
But that’s the one thing he and I could whole-heartedly agree on. Indeed.
Furthermore, the problems both the US and Britain are faced with show many similarities to the situation in Germany (and many other Western nations).
Clearly, they are not as deep in the morass, but maybe just for now - I am not too optimistic a person :-(
I fixed the misleading headline.
What use is Blinken if not to mislead? And how better to mislead than to repeat the Obama party line?
Well, he was not re-elected in July 1945, so he had no more say in the policies of Westminster- at least not until his reelection in 1951.
Anticipating this possible electoral result, he already brought his successor Attlee to the Potsdam conference.
No offence meant to him personally. Afer all, he was admirably - for the most part - able to separate his country’s interests from his personal opinions.
I’m a paranoid schizophrenic. But I’m an optimist!
He once said “If Hitler invaded Hell I'd side with the Devil
himself!’’ which certainly bears out your point that he was clearly didn't like Germany.
My reservations about him were that he delighted when we were attacked at Pearl Harbor because he knew then America was in the war.
I had family members who barely survived two wars fighting for Britain. While not a strict Anglophobe nor an Anglophile over all I'm not fond of the Brits.
They still tend to think of us as a colony.
Guess as I get old I get more taciturn. I work in a hospital chock full of immigrants from every crap hole on the planet including Western and Eastern Europe.
Quite frankly I don't care for any of them. I wish we could go back to pre-1965 levels of immigration, 300,000 a year.
Now we take in a million people a year. No nation on Earth does this. Why do we?
Oh yes, Churchill was a towering figure in history, but parts of his character are strongly ambivalent, no doubt about it.
I was very sorry to hear about your predicament :-(
It is so much worse that what I have (high-functioning autism aka Asperger’s syndrome).
May your life nonetheless be as good as possible, with help and good grace from the Almighty.
Yes and maybe you have some Irish ancestors?
Not a few of them do not have the best opinion about the English, there have been all too many dreadful episodes in history involving the English in Ireland (Cromwell, Wolfe Tone, the potato famine etc.).
It’s the old sad story of neigboring nations not getting along with each other - as a German I know this all too well. No nation has more neighbors than we do :lol:
This is not even restricted to Europe: ask a Pakistani what he thinks about the Indians, or a Turk about the Persians or the Arabs.
Not to mention the “fraught relationships” between China&Japan or Japan&Korea, or maybe Malaysia and Singapore, Vietnam and Cambodia or Thailand and Myanmar. No love lost between them either...
And I honestly agree with you about America’s immigration disaster (as author Peter Brimelow called it).
There has been a very interesting debate about the 1965 immigration law and its consequences on FR just recently.
As you said, I think about 300,000 immigrants to the US might be just right - including foreign spouses of US citizens.
Footnote: dear U.S. law makers, please take the bias towards extended family reunification out of the next immigration law :-)
And I am really sorry to hear that the American medical system has the same problem being swamped with immigrants from all over the world as ours does.
I think the legal stipulation in older American immigration laws, which maintained that immigrants were not allowed to become a public charge, was very justified...
Though, honestly, the situation in other countries of Western Europe is only marginally better. You realize this as soon as you read their press, visit blogs from these countries or talk to their citizens.
I’m afraid we Westerners are all in this mess together. So I heartily applaud your optimism. It’s what keeps us going even in straited times like these. Thumbs up :-)
Once all the Germans were warlike and mean,
But that couldn’t happen again.
We taught them a lesson in 1918
And they’ve hardly bothered us since then.
-Tom Lehrer
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