Posted on 05/12/2018 9:06:09 AM PDT by Olog-hai
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas says Berlin is set to change its policy towards the US after Washington’s walkout on the Iran nuclear deal. In the comments published by the German Spiegel magazine on Friday, Maas addressed the diplomatic crisis that saw Donald Trump ignore the appeals of the USA’s European allies to keep the deal in place.
While Germany intends to continue seeking cooperation with the US, Maas said his country would take a tougher stance towards Washington.
“We are prepared to talk, negotiate and also fight for our interests where necessary,” Maas told Spiegel. “This goes for all levels, not just for the White House.” […]
Speaking to Spiegel, Maas said that the US-German ties started deteriorating long before the Iran withdrawal. “The transformation which the US is undergoing had already taken hold of trans-Atlantic ties,” he said. Germany felt the change “before Tuesday night’s disappointment.”
Maas’ deputy, Niels Annen, also slammed Washington in the Spiegel article, saying the US had “very little willingness to take the arguments of its allies seriously.” The Iran deal withdrawal was the “wrong decision with grave long-term consequences for our relations,” the deputy foreign minister said. …
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They only care about their empire over there. And note that they do have the nerve to push for a breakaway from the USA, which is not something they should be allowed to do given that’s what they want.
The Germany of Angela Merkel serves as a fine bellwether of the wrong direction for a nation to take.
Sooner or later, they're going to learn a very hard lesson about feeding alligators.
Germany is an ally? Since when?
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I remember my dear Mother telling us in the late 1950s that Germany is not yet through messing with us. I took it then and later to mean she still had war memories fresh in her mind, but MAYBE she was more right than I ever imagined.
Yeah this mutt is disappointed because he thought Trump was stupid as he and his Eurostan pals are.
That’s what they want. And since Trump got elected, they’ve been talking about standing on their own, which means they will revert to being the USA’s enemy; you never give the enemy what they most want. Pulling out will result in something similar to what happened in Iraq.
Oh, I sincerely hope so, goodbye and good riddance Europe.
” Pulling out will result in something similar to what happened in Iraq.”
I respectfully disagree!
Taking a closer look will confirm what I’m saying. Right now, the German military is quietly taking over the military forces of its neighbors, with the full support of those neighboring countries. Remember how “ISIS” looked like it came out of nowhere as soon as Obama got out of Iraq? That could happen in Europe too, very easily, and they have that spirit of enmity towards the USA more than ever (they’ve always had it, but not so openly in the past, although it was evident during the Bush administration).
Again, you don’t give such an entity what they want most.
That is awesome.
yawn.
germany announces a “new, tougher stance” against the U.S. almost on a weekly basis ... pretty much every time Trump puts America first ...
It’s ‘good’ thing that there is distancing between the EU and US....stage is getting set quite nicely.
Arab allies are far more important than European allies.
The Europeans effectively deserted us in the face of an existential Iranian threat.
Europe was.
The Future is East Of Suez
Amen.
Germany isn’t an “enemy”. To be an enemy you have to have the balls to be some kind of threat to somebody. They’re not a threat to anybody but themselves ultimately since they’ve let in over a million mostly muzzie invaders in the last few years and stopped having kids of their own.
Their interests are entirely mercenary no matter what else they say. They want Uncle Sugar to pay for their Defense. At the same time, they want to benefit from trading with others the US sanctions (less competition for German firms that way). If and when Iran does develop ballistic missiles capable of reaching Europe with nuclear warheads, they will instantly scream that the US to do something (ie pay money to provide for our defense) while at the same time continuing to pocket just as much blood money from the mullahs as they can. They pocketed Saddam’s blood money for years and were very upset when we cut off that revenue stream. Their socialism is expensive. They look for every possible avenue to pay for it and they have no scruples about where that money comes from.
“Again, you don’t give such an entity what they want most.”
I’m done with America being “the world’s policeman!” If Europe wants to “dance with the devil” again, let them. Our country’s wellbeing is far more important at this juncture. We “gave them” 400,000 of the best lives we had in WWII, and so if they want to let Germany rule them again, so be it. Our deplorable “national debt” is in large measure driven by the money we’ve spent around the world trying against all odds to make it a better place. In Europe, the result has been a bunch of ungrateful pr!cks who, like our illegal Mexican “immigrants,” have gotten to the place where they think they have a right to our protective umbrella, and to at the same time $hit on us. That somehow we “owe” them our largesse. Screw them! Our daughter-in-law’s family are German-American. They have been here since before WWII. They changed their name from Mueller to Miller because they were ashamed to be seen in the same light as European Germans. And they see Germany for what it is today.
Der Spiegel’s cover is exactly right. That is exactly how I feel as do tens of millions of other Americans.
The whole idea that countries like Germany are “allies” is a complete sham. We can’t count on them and we all know it. They pay lip service to being “allies” to get us to keep paying for their defense. Its high time that we pulled out of Nato and brought the boys back home.
Making America great again means fighting against evil regimes as we did in the past.
We fought against Hitler and the evil Nazis in World War II. We fought against Stalin and the evil Soviets during the Cold War. Now we should be fighting against the evil terrorist-sponsoring, chemical-bomb-producing, murderous Ayatollahs of Iran.
But what have we been doing instead?
Thanks to Barack Obama and his Iran deal from hell, America has been supporting the 21st-century evil counterpart of the Nazis and the Soviets.
By lifting sanctions on Iran, Barack Obama flooded the Ayatollahs with billions of dollars to do more evil.
By refusing to continue this atrocity, Donald Trump is making America great again.
And by weakening the Iranian regime, the Iranian people may eventually enjoy the same freedom and prosperity that the Europeans and Russians have enjoyed since America defeated the Nazis and the Soviets.
Yet our so-called German allies think this is not good.
I can not recommend to your notice measures for the fulfillment of our duties to the rest of the world without again pressing upon you the necessity of placing ourselves in a condition of complete defense and of exacting from them the fulfillment of their duties toward us.We sure will not keep any appeals to arms at a distance in the future, certainly not with the way these “Europeans” are talking, never mind Iran and the rest.
The United States ought not to indulge a persuasion that, contrary to the order of human events, they will forever keep at a distance those painful appeals to arms with which the history of every other nation abounds. There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war. …
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