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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“America first!” - Trump.
“Cover my a$$!” - Merkel.
Good for Europe.
They should kick us out of NATO and send our troops and equipment home, too.
/don’t_throw_me_in_that_briar_patch_brer_fox
The answer to American greatness appears to be The Fourth Reich.
The Roman Empire and the Holy Roman Empire.
A globalist system that our country was an instigator in creating, yet one which we may yet extract ourselves.
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