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...There is a quieter worry about the European balance of power. The U.S. engagement in Europe was an important balm to anxieties about the power of a reunited Germany, and those anxieties may return, said Jan Techau, a German former defense official and an analyst at the Eurasia Group.

“The question of who was the big boy in Europe was answered by the U.S.,” he said. “But what happens when the U.S. retreats and the question of the European hegemon raises up again? It will make European politics much more complicated.”

“There’s no real way to replace the U.S., despite all the European talk,” he said.

1 posted on 03/27/2025 8:13:08 AM PDT by Cronos
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2 posted on 03/27/2025 8:17:39 AM PDT by Cronos
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A lot of words to say “wait, Uncle Sugar isn’t going to be taking care of us anymore?”


3 posted on 03/27/2025 8:19:31 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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Germany just blew up their newest coal processing plan.


4 posted on 03/27/2025 8:20:00 AM PDT by alternatives?
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Without the USA, the EuroTrash will be at each others throat. It’s who they are and what they do. They are blood thirsty savages who love war and conquest.


5 posted on 03/27/2025 8:20:18 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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They refuse to see how they have departed from the defense of freedom, and have reverted into a typically German technocratic corporatism that seeks to actively reshape German society.


6 posted on 03/27/2025 8:22:56 AM PDT by oblomov
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This is part of what I voted for!


7 posted on 03/27/2025 8:23:30 AM PDT by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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...the German Parliament voted to loosen the country’s long aversion to debt so that it could begin rebuilding a military and a domestic infrastructure that had fallen into neglect.

That statement sends chills all up and down my spine...

12 posted on 03/27/2025 8:35:02 AM PDT by ZOOKER
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Islam is winning in Europe. It has become the religion on choice. America needs to focus on rooting it out of America.


18 posted on 03/27/2025 8:39:50 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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“pushed out of the nest“

If a bird doesn’t push its chicks out of the nest the chicks will never fly or learn to find food.

This isn’t rocket science.


19 posted on 03/27/2025 8:41:00 AM PDT by packagingguy
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In other words, why couldn’t we just let the world rape us forever?


22 posted on 03/27/2025 8:45:03 AM PDT by toddausauras (Trump 2.0 is a much needed miracle.)
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https://www.bruegel.org/analysis/fit-war-decades-sluggish-german-rearmament-versus-surging-russian-defence-production

From the article:

“By 2021, Germany had around 340 tanks, or just 8 percent of the more than 4000 West German tanks it had in 1992 and 14 percent of the 2400 tanks it had in 2004. The number of howitzers fell from more than 3000 in 1992 to almost 1000 in 2004 and a mere 120 in 2021. Similar numbers apply for other weapon systems. Even for the fighter jets that NATO puts significant emphasis on, numbers came down by more than 50 percent.”

So what the heck happened? What did they do with all of that money? And then some want to blame the US for Europe's military woes? Crazy.

23 posted on 03/27/2025 8:46:18 AM PDT by MRadtke (Light a candle or curse the darkness?)
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Germany is part of the EU, not of the USA. The USA can’t orphan Germany. The New York Times has lost their ability to think, they’ve been given over to reprobate mind.


24 posted on 03/27/2025 8:47:42 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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Germany, perhaps more than any other country in Europe, feels adrift, orphaned and even betrayed by its closest ally.

The New York Times trying to generate hate for President Trump. Sickening!

26 posted on 03/27/2025 8:50:09 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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..we’ve lost .. the guiding star in the sky..

Anybody else see the irony? This guy's a hard core commie/greenie weenie. He references pre-Trump America as a "guiding star."

If that doesn't make Americans cringe, nothing will.

28 posted on 03/27/2025 8:54:00 AM PDT by LouAvul (1 John 2:22: Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist)
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As usual, Europe only cares about Europe. Secretly they wish we would just disappear. So, when we threaten to give them their wish because they depend upon us to do all the heavy lifting while they flitter away with social issues, they suddenly smell the reality, and the reality isn't pleasant.

In the meantime, the elites of Europe do everything in their power to destroy the U.S. as a free nation, with help from within via the Democrats & RINOs to one where the elites call all the shots & limits the freedoms of our citizens.

We reject their designs. Either we win, or the whole world descends into the depths of purgatory.

Chronos, you chose to emigrate to Europe, time for you to stop whining about your decision, because you do not like our decisions to save ourselves. Perhaps our decision will spur your leaders to do the same, and take responsibility to stop the stupidity, and face reality by getting engaged in providing for their protection, because we cannot do it all.

We have communism trending in many South American nations, and Central America, who are attacking the US. in unconventional warfare, by sending the worst of the worst to the U.S> to create total havoc.

They are trying to throw former Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro in jail where he will be killed while in prison.

That is within our hemisphere. If Europe wants to keep committing suicide by stupidity, then we have more important issues closer to home.

29 posted on 03/27/2025 8:58:27 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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A story in the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita asked, What if Germany rebuilds the Bundeswehr but the AfD takes over?

This was listed as another reason for Poland's military buildup.

31 posted on 03/27/2025 9:05:03 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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a former foreign minister, radical leftist in his younger days and now a Green party stalwart

That's still a "radical leftist" in my book.

(Whining woke Kraut)...we’ve lost not only the power that protected us, but also the guiding star in the sky.

Wrong!

You can still go MGGA (Make Germany Great Again) Get with the program, drop your communist world view and start making things better for Germans.

You can start by ejecting all the murdering muzzard Nazis you let into your country.

32 posted on 03/27/2025 9:07:27 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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...Germany, perhaps more than any other country in Europe, feels adrift, orphaned and even betrayed by its closest ally. But if Germans have been pushed out of the nest, they are also beginning to respond, amid deep soul searching and questioning about the future — both their own and Europe’s.


When you put it that way, it sounds like a younger sibling has been taking care of the lazy, crackhead, older brother for the past 75 years.


35 posted on 03/27/2025 9:12:43 AM PDT by Cold_Red_Steel
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The term “Blockhead” for Germans didn’t just fall out of the sky.

They are suddenly desperate to rearm. But nobody is attacking or threatening Germany. However at this very moment, there are around 20 million moslem and African migrants stabbing, ramming and raping their way through Germany. But that’s ok... when they really need to do is go to war with Russia.

Blockheads.


37 posted on 03/27/2025 9:15:04 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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Meh. German men enjoy watching their wives, daughters and young sons get raped and/or run over.


39 posted on 03/27/2025 9:17:00 AM PDT by nonliberal (Russia is not my enemy.)
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