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Trump at NATO summit: 'Germany is totally controlled by Russia'
CNBC ^ | July 11, 2018 | Sam Meredith, Natasha Turak

Posted on 07/11/2018 1:44:10 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

“Germany is totally controlled by Russia … They will be getting between 60 and 70 percent of their energy from Russia and a new pipeline, and you tell me if that is appropriate because I think its not,” Trump said.

The U.S. president was speaking at a press conference in front of NATO representatives ahead of a two-day summit.

The Trump administration’s policies indicate it views security and trade as intimately linked. And when it comes to the trade balance, no ally will be spared.

Speaking in Brussels, Belgium on the first leg of his European trip, the U.S. president said a flurry of oil and gas deals had given Moscow far too much influence over the continent’s largest economy.

In particular, he singled out the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project as being especially "inappropriate."

“I think it is a very bad thing for NATO and I don’t think it should have happened and I think we have to talk to Germany about it. On top of that, Germany is just paying a little bit over 1 percent (on defense) … And I think that is inappropriate also,” he added. 'An attack on Germany and Russia'

Trump has long criticized Berlin and other NATO allies for “freeriding” on Washington’s defense capabilities. Currently only five of NATO’s 29 member states actually allocate the 2 percent of their gross domestic product (GDP) to military spending that they are formally committed to as part of the alliance. Those five are the U.S., the U.K., Greece, Estonia and Poland.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Germany; Russia
KEYWORDS: angelamerkel; energy; estonia; europe; europeanunion; gas; germany; greece; hydrocarbons; methane; military; nato; natosummit; nordstream2; oil; opec; pipeline; poland; russia; summit; trumpnato; unitedkingdom; wheresberlinfreeper
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To: dfwgator

They want to be anywhere but Ukraine!


121 posted on 07/11/2018 8:54:54 AM PDT by billakay
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To: caww

122 posted on 07/11/2018 8:55:32 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: RetiredArmy

The British had several divisions in West Germany during the 1980’s.

But, point taken, if the balloon had gone up, it would have been primarily American forces with support from the British.


123 posted on 07/11/2018 8:55:43 AM PDT by BluegrassCardinal
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To: billakay

I still think it would be best to divide Ukraine into two and allow Western Ukraine to join NATO and leave the Eastern Half for Russia.

The thorn would be what to do with Kiev.


124 posted on 07/11/2018 9:09:56 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

If ya watch any video of this NATO con game, watch this...Watch Trump in action....

Best NATO video so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqjJvveODKM&t=1s


125 posted on 07/11/2018 9:15:11 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: caww

Thanks for the heads up.

Interesting world wide changes are happening post President Trump.


126 posted on 07/11/2018 9:27:06 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Trump: "Families of American citizens murdered by illegals are permanently separated from them!)
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To: 1Old Pro
Good for Poland, they should are and will be a bigger and better partner than Germany.

Poland will not stab us in the back like the Euro Trash nations do, 24/7!

127 posted on 07/11/2018 9:30:57 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Trump: "Families of American citizens murdered by illegals are permanently separated from them!)
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To: TheStickman

Trump may go down as the second greatest president in our entire history, and may be the man who saves our republic.

Finally we have a leader who is on our side.


128 posted on 07/11/2018 9:33:00 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Get off my lawn and GTFO of my country.)
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To: Grampa Dave
Trump is right: Germany imports 70% of its gas from Russia in a controversial deal that has enriched its Former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder who has profited from gas deals with Russia....weeks after leaving office he started overseeing the implementation of the project for Gazprom. Schroeder took up position as head of Nord Stream AG's shareholder committee and has worked for the gas behemoth ever since.....Most of the remaining 30% comes from Norway.

Germany's bill for Russian gas last year was 21 billion dollars!


129 posted on 07/11/2018 9:33:50 AM PDT by caww
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To: Rashputin
The US has thirty 50+ years of stupid crap to recover from and Trump seems to be the only one that sees the whole damn web of lies for the contradictory mess that it really is.

The Web of lies go back to LBJ and probably why he became president.

Thanks posting this awareness warning.

130 posted on 07/11/2018 9:34:50 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Trump: "Families of American citizens murdered by illegals are permanently separated from them!)
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To: dragnet2
If ya watch any video of this NATO con game, watch this...Watch Trump in action.... Best NATO video so far.

If that's the 8 minute clip a the table - it's absolutely awesome. Trump spanked Merkel at least a dozen time in front of the world. Fabulous.

131 posted on 07/11/2018 9:35:08 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Sacajaweau

“Germany and Russia are buds.........if you think otherwise....you’re fooling yourself.!

Bingo, they have been in bed with each other since the Berlin Wall came down.


132 posted on 07/11/2018 9:38:05 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Trump: "Families of American citizens murdered by illegals are permanently separated from them!)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I love our President Donald J Trump, he’s kicking ass and taking names. love it.


133 posted on 07/11/2018 9:38:26 AM PDT by Lucky2 (Trump/Pence 2020)
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To: abb
Absolute common sense logic on Trump’s part.

“We pay to defend you from somebody that you’re in an energy business deal with? I don’t think so.”

134 posted on 07/11/2018 9:40:24 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Trump: "Families of American citizens murdered by illegals are permanently separated from them!)
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To: Grampa Dave
Love this photo..... Stoltenberg trying to say how Nato is united

while TRUMP says how can you say that when you're handing billions to Russia.


135 posted on 07/11/2018 9:43:45 AM PDT by caww
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To: Grampa Dave
FLASHBACK!....Trump paid $100,000 to place an ad in the New York Times 'in 1987' criticizing American foreign defense policy.


136 posted on 07/11/2018 9:47:07 AM PDT by caww
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To: LiveFreeOrDie2001

I’m seriously amazed by how much info PDJT
has in his brain at ANY given moment.

#1. President Trump may be the most intelligent President with both feet on the ground in a long time.

#2. Obama, Clapper and Brennan no longer control our nation’s intel. So those thugs are in the dark, and President Trump is updated on a regular basis by good Americans, loyal to our country, not Obama.


137 posted on 07/11/2018 9:48:54 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Trump: "Families of American citizens murdered by illegals are permanently separated from them!)
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To: caww
Glenn Greenwald ‏ Verified account @ggreenwald Follow Follow @ggreenwald More Anyway, Trump is obviously trying to sabotage the Germany/Russia pipeline because US oil/gas companies want to supply Germany instead - a fact directly at odds with the claim that Putin controls Trump, evidence which will be ignored because this conspiracy theory is a religion. 5:40 AM - 11 Jul 2018
138 posted on 07/11/2018 9:50:00 AM PDT by caww
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To: morphing libertarian

And also persecute and incarcerate anyone who ever said “hello” to Trump since he was ten years old.


139 posted on 07/11/2018 9:51:16 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Grampa Dave
True, but I figure you can't recover the nearly 60k dead in VN and the many others who died as a result of serving there up through the eighties so I consider that portion of our history mostly an unrecoverable application error, so to speak. Parts of that twenty we can recover from would be taken care of in large measure by taking care of the last thirty or thirty five years.

You're right in principle, though, but then again you can go back to Woodrow Wilson and shed a couple of Amendments along with the Federal Reserve but that's a long slow process. The past thirty, though, we may be able to manage as a good start. Doing so would wake people up or shape them up and we could have a chance at the rest.

140 posted on 07/11/2018 9:52:09 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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