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Ready and willing. That’s my take from today’s meeting in Paris.
X.com ^ | 1:55 PM · Feb 17, 2025 | Mark Rutte✓@SecGenNATO

Posted on 02/17/2025 2:19:09 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Europe is ready and willing to step up. To lead in providing security guarantees for Ukraine. Ready and willing to invest a lot more in our security. The details will need to be decided but the commitment is clear.


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NATO should have died with the fall of the Berlin Wall.

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/16117-document-06-record-conversation-between


1 posted on 02/17/2025 2:19:09 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Germany is ready and willing to rearm. Wonderful.


2 posted on 02/17/2025 2:22:00 PM PST by Aquamarine (“Be excited about the future of our country. Be excited.” - Donald Trump)
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And here we were like idiots spending in the trillions defending these POS for decades with our military! Screw them all to hell bring home all our military men and our equipment! Let them fend for themselves from here on.


3 posted on 02/17/2025 2:27:17 PM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Good going, Putin! You have united Europe, to include Turkey, as well as alienated India. Russia is not down to allies of North Korea, Belarus and Iran. And China is now thinking of its opportunities.


4 posted on 02/17/2025 2:29:35 PM PST by Redmen4ever
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Germany is ready and willing to rearm. Wonderful.


We taught them a lesson in 1918
And they’ve hardly bothered us since then.


5 posted on 02/17/2025 2:32:30 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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“Germany is ready and willing to rearm. Wonderful.”

Considering the direction they’re going, that would be an improvement.


6 posted on 02/17/2025 2:35:56 PM PST by BobL
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

NATO is not the mechanism for US presence in Germany.

A thing called WWII caused it.


7 posted on 02/17/2025 2:40:53 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: BobL

Germany has a warring nature. They started WW1 and WW2.


8 posted on 02/17/2025 2:45:26 PM PST by Aquamarine (“Be excited about the future of our country. Be excited.” - Donald Trump)
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Germans may be greedy but they aren’t stupid. I expect they will nuke up now.


9 posted on 02/17/2025 2:48:14 PM PST by lodi90
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What could go wrong?


10 posted on 02/17/2025 2:49:42 PM PST by Aquamarine (“Be excited about the future of our country. Be excited.” - Donald Trump)
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To: Aquamarine

Austria-Hungary had more with starting WWI than Germany.


11 posted on 02/17/2025 2:50:04 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Copied from History Hub Info

'Germany has a long history of wars and conquest, both as the German Empire and as the German Republic. It was one of the main belligerents in both World Wars, which is to say the First World War from 1914 to 1918 and the Second World War from 1939 to 1945. In both cases, it found itself in the defeated camp'.

12 posted on 02/17/2025 2:55:50 PM PST by Aquamarine (“Be excited about the future of our country. Be excited.” - Donald Trump)
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Germany is ready and willing to rearm. Wonderful.

Trump realized America cannot be great again tied down to dying Europe. The 2021-24 era was a testament to that.

13 posted on 02/17/2025 3:15:30 PM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Redmen4ever

That was the whole point... Thank you, President Trump!


14 posted on 02/17/2025 3:20:43 PM PST by exinnj
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Germany is full of beta males and liberal women.
Their army physical fitness levels of German soldiers are a damn joke.
Europe is full of wussies, except for the former Soviet states like Poland.
It’s their culture now.
Hell, the British generals are yelling the commie Stairmer they can’t send that many troops.to the Ukraine.
They are flapping their lips, which the twats always do. Then fall horribly short of any goals.
No respect. Ps. Joint exercises with European forces is always a damn joke. Damn Italians cancelled a couple years back cause it was too cold.


15 posted on 02/17/2025 3:34:17 PM PST by 1ScrappyArmyMom
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Ready and willing to invest a lot more in our security.

Then do so. We're having this conversation because up to now it's all been words, and these are just words. "Guarantee our safety now and we'll set a date to talk about how we will consider funding defending ourselves someday" is past its expiration date.

16 posted on 02/17/2025 3:40:28 PM PST by Billthedrill
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PAY US BACK GRIFTING SCUM!


17 posted on 02/17/2025 3:42:43 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING 0F AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: dfwgator

Put still ready and willing to leach off the US.😡


18 posted on 02/17/2025 3:44:34 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING 0F AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And Goby himself has confirmed that “agreement” ONLY pertained to East Germany.

Nowhere was it agreed that if other SOVEREIGN nations wanted to join NATO, they could not do so.


19 posted on 02/17/2025 3:58:46 PM PST by Paul R. (Old Viking saying: "Never be more than 3 steps away from your weapon ... or a Uriah Heep song!" ;-))
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To: lodi90

Others will too. Just a minor problem down the road, eh? :-(


20 posted on 02/17/2025 4:00:39 PM PST by Paul R. (Old Viking saying: "Never be more than 3 steps away from your weapon ... or a Uriah Heep song!" ;-))
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