Posted on 01/17/2017 1:22:15 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The inscription on the Great Seal of the United States reads "Novus ordo seclorum," translated sometimes as "A New Age Now Begins." Judging by this interview Donald Trump gave the German daily Bild, that adage will almost certainly take on a new meaning as Donald Trump reshapes the world.
Trump sounds like he wants to upend more than 70 years of post-World War II U.S. foreign policy. What he might replace it with is so far unknown. But you can bet that after reading what Trump had to say about Europe, about NATO, and about Germany, the lights will be burning late all across the continent as governments look to adjust to the new American reality.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump called NATO obsolete, predicted that other European Union members would follow the U.K. in leaving the bloc and threatened BMW with import duties over a planned plant in Mexico, according to an interview with Germanys Bild newspaper that will raise concerns in Berlin over trans-Atlantic relations.
Quoted in German from a conversation held in English, Trump predicted Britains exit from the EU will be a success and portrayed the EU as an instrument of German domination with the purpose of beating the U.S. in international trade. For that reason, Trump said, hes fairly indifferent whether the EU breaks up or stays together, according to Bild.
Trumps reported comments leave little doubt that he will stick to campaign positions and may in some cases upend decades of U.S. foreign policy, putting him fundamentally at odds with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on issues from free trade and refugees to security and the EUs role in the world. On Russia, he suggested he might use economic sanctions imposed for Vladimir Putins encroachment on Ukraine as leverage in nuclear-arms reduction talks, while NATO, he said, has problems.
Its obsolete, first because it was designed many, many years ago, Trump was quoted as saying about the trans-Atlantic military alliance. Secondly, countries arent paying what they should and NATO didnt deal with terrorism.
While those comments expanded on doubts Trump raised about the North Atlantic Treaty Organization during his campaign, he reserved some of his most dismissive remarks for the EU and Merkel, whose open-border refugee policy he called a catastrophic mistake.
In contrast, Trump praised Britons for voting last year to leave the EU. People and countries want their own identity and dont want outsiders to come in and destroy it. The U.K. is smart to leave the bloc because the EU is basically a means to an end for Germany, Bild cited Trump as saying.
If you ask me, more countries will leave, he was quoted as saying.
While Trump blamed Brexit on an influx of refugees he said that Britain was forced to accept, the U.K.s number of asylum applications in 2015 was a fraction of the 890,000 refugees who arrived in Germany that year at the peak of Europes migrant crisis.
NATO is dead as a benefit to the US. Its leading European countries are suicidal, chained to Islam. NATO must either become more Eastern European as a bulwark against Islam, or it will become the structure for a European Islamic caliphate.
I think EU is going to pull some very fascist sheeit this year to try to keep any more Brexits from happening. I think that’s part of why they are playing this illegitimizing game now-so EU will have an excuse to postpone or cancel elections, and/or form their own army.
Excellent! Trump is going against the new world order and returning to nationalism.
Europe has invited a full-scale invasion of Europe and they want to quibble over NATO? NATO was set up to prevent that. NATO has already been discarded by Merkel.
Why should we support and defend nations that are committing suicide. Germany has screwed Europe for the third time in one hundred years.
I have seen out Treasury Secretary Jack Lew at Merkels side for a while now. Isn’t anyone curious enough to ask our administration just “What is he doing there”?
Lew has been trying to convince Germany to keep propping up Greece, and trying to convince Greece to be obedient to Merkel. All no doubt by pledging American money.
Western Europe has decided to submit to Islam.
Eastern Europe is where our attention should be.
They intend to resist and we should help them.
” So if Trump believes NATO is “obsolete,” perhaps he should propose a new mission for the alliance that would invigorate its members and give purpose to its armies. “
That presupposes that NATO must always exist. If it is obsolete, it should go away. It should have disbanded in about 1992 or 93. Instead it became an EU and NWO interventionist expeditionary force and left the EU on the attack. IN the Balkans, in Libya, in Syria and elsewhere.
Ironic. We supported Trump to Make America Great Again.
By Speaking Truth to Power in Europe, he just may give the people there the push needed, to MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN.
Until Merkel stops her suicidal policies towards Muslim immigration, there is little chance of that happening.
Germany had better wake up; it is commiting demographic suicide. I don’t see why we should be supporting an emerging caliphate in Germany.
Make a summary judgment against Soros will wake up these globalists.
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