All those words written in this article! And no where does it mention the fact that the primary cause of strain between Germany and Trump is Germany’s refusal to meet its NATO financial obligation
Does such a glaring omission make the entire argument Fake News? As far as I’m concerned...yes, it does. (The Local is a well-known fake news site so any uncertainty must be resolved accordingly.)
NATO needs a mojor clean-out. That includes the UK. Said that for years. Ungrateful sods.
Indeed, but the USA has to meet what they deem to be the USA’s NATO obligation to defend them while they abrogate their agreements.
But of course, they’re using that as an excuse to build up their EU military on the sneak. Never mind that they’re stiffing the USA; it’s really that the USA doesn’t feel like defending them because, uh, Trump said “America first”.
It’s pretty much a zero chance that they will ever get up to the two-percent goal. Last week, some German political figure suggested that 1.5 percent was probably the best they could do, and wanted to revamp the overall goal.
On the local.de web site being slanted....yeah, that’s been brought up a thousand times. They reached the point where any criticism of the site on their stories...gets you removed from comment ability. I used to wonder who funded the Local (probably Soros).