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Macron said that as an obvious barb to get under Donald Trump’s skin, and possibly to help boost his plummeting approval numbers. But what was Merkel’s motivation to take such a cheap shot?~~~~~~~~~~

Are they're going to dismantle all their social programs to fund this "European army"? Or do they think that the US will pay for it?

1 posted on 11/14/2018 3:05:50 PM PST by mandaladon
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Announce that we will move Rahmstien air force base to Poland and she will beg to be invaded by the US.


53 posted on 11/14/2018 4:03:09 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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Would they have snappy uniforms? March in a stiff-legged style to inspirational band music?
 
 

60 posted on 11/14/2018 4:13:05 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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Ya mean, there will be no more Europeans saying; “The Ami’s are coming” in the future? Sounds like a great plan.


63 posted on 11/14/2018 4:28:17 PM PST by Bringbackthedraft (What is earned is treasured, what is free is worth what you paid for it.)
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Do it. About the only Euros with any fight in them are rag-head refugees. Conscript them and arm them. They already have small arms training. Go ahead and make my day. The beheading videos from Berlin, Paris, Brussels, Vienna and London will be on YouTube soon.


64 posted on 11/14/2018 4:40:46 PM PST by VietVet876
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If the U.S. were to ever move against Europe, it would be because Europe had been lost and were now a mortal enemy. Most likely wouldn’t happen during President trump’s term(s), even with most of Europe handing over their countries to invading hordes.


65 posted on 11/14/2018 4:55:37 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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Bombs falling from the skies again.
Deutschland is on the rise again.
68 posted on 11/14/2018 5:24:05 PM PST by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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Macron the cheese eating surrender monkey doing what cheese eating surrender monkeys do best - surrendering to the rising 4th Reich led by Merkel.


69 posted on 11/14/2018 5:27:07 PM PST by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We MAGA)
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Get the migrants to do it!


70 posted on 11/14/2018 5:33:56 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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So now we can pull all troops from most of the EU, starting with Germany. Now.


71 posted on 11/14/2018 5:59:54 PM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables ("Trust Sessions!" Bwaaahaaahaaa! Fools.)
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Merkel’s Germany currently can’t even maintain the smallest of competent naval, air, and armored forces. Reports of their maintenance backlogs and sidelined equipment have become extreme in recent years. No active submarines, hardly any active duty aircraft and tanks, etc. Proud German military traditions are on fumes of life support. How exactly would she contribute to a “European army” capable of defending that entire continent?


72 posted on 11/14/2018 6:04:31 PM PST by Trump_the_Evil_Left (FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
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And Merkel took the first step in establishing the new "European Army Reserve Service" (EARS), by appointing General Hecan Hearyou as the first Commander-In-Chief of EARS.



General Hecan Hearyou
1st Commander-In-Chief
European Army Reserve Service (EARS)


75 posted on 11/14/2018 6:27:03 PM PST by Songcraft
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Great - she wants to organize/arm/legitimize a horde of Muzzies....


79 posted on 11/15/2018 2:23:44 AM PST by trebb (Those who don't donate anything tend to be empty gasbags...no-value-added types)
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The EU will NEVER gets all its poop in one sock, and Eastern Europe thinks highly of the US, making socialist Western Europe practically disarmed.


81 posted on 11/15/2018 6:09:05 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Socialism is for losers.)
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A European Army would be worthless without the US nuclear umbrella. Conventional forces are only worth something in an environment where neither side dares to use nukes.


82 posted on 11/15/2018 6:13:11 AM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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We protected them (all on our dime) for almost a half century against the Warsaw Pact, and our troops stationed there helped their economy tremendously over that same time period and beyond. And THIS is the thanks we get?

We should pull out all our troops from that dysfunctional nation NOW. And then watch from afar as Islam completes what we should’ve let the Russians do in ‘45 — destroy Germany completely.


84 posted on 11/16/2018 12:32:01 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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Merkel might as well start buying plastic army men from Amazon. Germany currently spends 1.2% of its GDP on defense and plans to zoom that all the way up to a stellar 1.5% by 2025. At that rate of increase they’ll surpass the 2% threshold they’ve already committed to (and reneged on) right around the centenary of their last march on Moscow.


86 posted on 11/18/2018 11:33:53 AM PST by Billthedrill
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