Posted on 06/20/2018 9:02:55 AM PDT by LiberalismDestroys
Regarding Donald Trump's intentions, by contrast, there can no longer be any doubt. Since taking office, he has carried out a scorched-earth policy against multi-lateral treaties of all kinds. He is a man with no interest in foreign policy, seeing it merely as an instrument to pursue his "America First" ideology. He views cooperation as a weakness, the latest proof being the US withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Trump acts quite openly. And now, the American president has turned his attentions toward launching a disinformation campaign against Germany. He is doing so as a way of justifying his morally repugnant refugee policies to the American people.
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You give them a strong leader and you can convince them to do ANYTHING.
Much like enigma, you’ve broken the code.
When the Germans approve of the use of force without UN sanction as in Serbia in 99 it’s fine and dandy. When they don’t approve as in Iraq in 2003 it’s “illegal”.
America is to provide for their national defense yet accord them great influence in international affairs according to them.
While America subsidizes their national defense (not to mention medical R&D) they of course are free to pocket as much blood money as possible from Cuba or Saddam’s Iraq or the Iranian Mullahs. The only reason they’re not in North Korea is the Norks have no money. They can also cooperate with Russia to build a gas pipeline to import even more gas from Russia making themselves more dependent even while identifying Russia as the biggest military threat which America is supposed to defend them against.
Meanwhile the Euro effectively acts as a currency devaluation for them even as it causes economic havoc in Southern Europe.
Germany is as mercantile as any country on earth - including China.
When Eurpoean countries begin meeting their commitments to NATO (hint: the T in NATO is TREATY) and their obligations to the UN then I guess I'll listen to their wailing that Trump doesn't honor non-binding agreements.
Fuhrer Merkel, currently goosestepping around her office yelling, “Seig Heil!”, is expected to comment soon.
The hordes of homicidal savages that she invited into Germany have already commented, shouting “Alahu Ackbar!”.
Admiral Ackbar commented, saying that hordes of homicidal savages should stop taking his name in vain, and that he is on Team Trump.
It is nice to see that the old cold war Soviet Pravda journalists have found employment at Der Speigel. Guess we know why we bombed the crap out of Germany twice.
These schiese for brains are p*ssed that the last time their Fuhrer said, “Germany first”, that was the beginning of the end of Germany. Furthermore, their beloved Fascist EU is a abysmal failure that will never come close to being a United States but more likely the Western European Caliphate. I cringe to think about America bailing out Europe one more time.
Thanks to Dead for posting this.
Trump’s alpha dog strategy is making the world fall into line!
New York Post ^ | June 16, 2018 | Michael Walsh
Posted on 6/16/2018, 2:57:02 PM by mairdie
... How does he do it? Simple: the Big Dog takes what he wants. Trump puts his best offer on the table first, and then snatches it away at the first sign of hesitation — as he did with Kim in the run-up to the summit. He has no interest in acceding to diplomatic niceties unless (as in his flattery of Kim in Singapore) they further American national interests. Best of all, he doesn’t care who knows it or what they think about it.
... In short, Trudeau, the French popinjay Emmanuel Macron and the colorless Theresa May are now getting the same treatment that, so far, has helped bring Xi and Kim to the table. A pat on the head here, the back of Trump’s hand there, until his opponents realize their best interests actually align with America’s and getting with the program is their best guarantee of self-preservation.
Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, can threaten “resistance” to America all she wants, but any “trade wars” will be nasty, brutish and short, and end with a humiliating climbdown by the European leaders. ...
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Germans elected and reelected a bitter childless bag of flab ****
Adolph or Angela?
They both destroyed Germany while trying to destroy everybody else.
They should meet the same fate.
Somebody, give her a gun, please.
“Since taking office, he has carried out a scorched-earth policy against multi-lateral treaties of all kinds.”
That’s exactly what he promised to do. He promised to get out of bad deals and make better deals.
Multilateral deals are BY DEFINITION sub optimal because only two parties can strike a mutually benificial bargain.
Imagine, for example, selling your house - but rather than agreeing on a price that satisfies both you and the buyer - the selling price must also be acceptable your neighbors. That is the problem with multilateral agreements - they are irrational and counter to the law of supply and demand.
Of course, you can subdivide a property and sell to, say, four buyers - but that is essentially four separate bilateral agreements. Additionally, the four buyers may require terms of each other as co-owners, but any such terms would essentially constitute seperate bilateral agreements between each pair, and would be irrelevant to you as the seller.
All Trump is doing is withdrawing from irrational multilateral deals and renegotiating them as a series of rational bilateral deals.
There is no reason the USA could not make agreements with all of the same nations - but under the Trump doctrine, they would each be mutually agreeable with the USA.
Maybe that sounded more logical in German. Quite to the contrary, Trump's foreign policy has been a particular strength, and this call for "cooperation" is nothing more than "do what we say." No sale, Siegfried.
Let us consider that UN Human Rights Council, for example. That would be the same body no fewer than nine of whose members were accused of Human Rights Violations last September, including:
...these people [human rights observers] had been abducted, detained, held incommunicado, or had disappeared, according to Andrew Gilmour, the Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights.
Other victims lost their jobs, had their homes or offices raided, were targeted by travel bans and asset freezes, as well as being forced to undergo unwanted psychiatric “treatment.” Many cases involved arbitrary detention and torture, sometimes by sexual assault or rape.
Strangely, our author does not wish to talk about that, but here's what he does want to talk about:
The heartbreaking scenes at the southern U.S. border, where crying children are brutally separated from their parents for having committed the error of seeking a better life for themselves...
Oh, brother. This is the same guy who is about to criticize Trump for interfering in Germany's internal affairs, mind you. He might have had the honesty to present this policy as yet another of Trump's predecessor's that needs to be fixed by Trump. Not likely.
No, overall I'd have to give this bit of "analysis" a low failing grade. We've been far too cooperative with Europeans such as the author.
Stefan Kuzamny wrote that as if the UN "Human Rights Council" were a legitimate institution worthy of "cooperation".
Is Stefan Kuzamny an idiot and a demagogue?
Or is Stefan Kuzamny merely an abysmally ignorant schoolchild who needs to have adult things explained to him by an actual adult?
Boo hoo. I just had an old friend from Germany to visit for a few days before she moved on to California to pick up her indoctrinated exchange-student son. Germany will cease to exist in the near future and good riddance.
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