Posted on 06/14/2018 10:15:42 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Germany has responded to US President Donald Trump’s egotistic policy of ’America First’ by calling on the European Union to “bundle its strength” and show more courage — continuing the more bellicose German rhetoric that followed the US decision last week to withdraw from a G7 statement.
“Under President Trump, the Atlantic has got wider,” German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Wednesday, standing at a podium emblazoned with the hashtag #EuropeUnited. “Where the US administration overtly calls our values and interests into question, we certainly need to take a more robust stance.”
During the speech, delivered to a room full of young Europeans at the Pulse of Europe event in Berlin, Maas slammed Trump’s willingness to undermine alliances that had developed over decades “in the time it takes to write a tweet.” […]
The EU needed to do more than just “adjust a couple of screws in the Brussels apparatus,” the bloc must “change its own mentality,” Maas said, not least because the times were becoming “radicalized by nationalism, populism and chauvinism.”
“We need more Europe, not less Europe, especially now,” he said.
Echoing his SPD colleagues, Maas also said it was vital to keep the EU’s internal border open and free — even while protecting the external borders. “For much too long we have left Italy and Greece alone with these tasks,” he said. …
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Good Germans don’t breathe...
I guess the irony bell broke over the idea that one is more free in Russia than the Eurozone.
Here is what I wrote some years bak on the subject: Open Letter To Conservatives Of Europe
It is becoming a long nightmare for all who honor their ancestors' achievements.
World War I, World War II, European Union: signs that Germany follows the saying "if at first you don't succeed, try-try again."
They already tried that.
They called it the EU.
We should have let #EuropeUnited under Nazis. George Washington warned us about “entanglements” with a-holes.
Tomorrow, the world.
You think Der Furher wouldn’t have eventually come for us? The crazy bastard thought he could conquer the Soviet Union. If we didn’t go after him, he would have come for us.
Forgot that Hitler declared war on us in 1941?
Not to mention the Nazis’ nuke program. Imagine ignoring Hitler’s declaration of war and then allowing him to develop weapons like that.
Globalists are inclined to think that they’re something new, that uniting a continent and eventually all the world under a single government has never been thought of before. It has, of course - the name for it is “empire”. There is no difference.
The last time Germany “united” Europe, millions of people died...
But Europe isn’t united, I don’t think any of the former East Block countries are or will toe the Belgium Chocolate line. And Italy has been rumbling too!
Cultural suicide.
Glad to hear the Atlantic is getting wider. Hopefully it will soon be so wide that we won’t be able to make it over there to save from themselves next time they go into self-destruct mode.
Hey! Go for it, guys!
And good luck.
They weren’t in self-destruct mode those last times; more like “destroy-everyone-else” mode. The Atlantic was far wider in those days and it didn’t stop the Third Reich from declaring war on us.
And, if evil countries start to do evil things, it can defend itself.
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