Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan meet in Sochi, Russia November 22, 2017. (photo credit: SPUTNIK/MIKHAIL METZEL/KREMLIN VIA REUTERS) The Three Amigos
Posted on 01/06/2020 8:14:12 AM PST by Olog-hai
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to Moscow on Saturday to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin amid growing tensions in the Middle East and elsewhere, officials said Monday.
Merkel and Putin will discuss “current international questions,” said Steffen Seibert, the chancellor’s spokesman. Those will include Syria, Libya, Iran, Iraq, Ukraine and bilateral ties.
“Russia is an important player on the world stage and as a permanent member of the (U.N.) Security Council it’s also indispensable when it comes to solving political conflicts,” Seibert said. Germany is currently a non-permanent member of the Security Council.
Germany and Russia are among the world powers that have been trying to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran after the U.S. withdrew from the agreement unilaterally in 2018.
Merkel has already spoken with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday about the situation in the Middle East, Seibert said.
Germany has offered to mediate between all parties following the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in a U.S. airstrike in Iraq last week. …
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I have no idea what makes you think so. What makes American politics preferable to the European in Arabia or Central Asia. What about China? What do you think Libyans think of US? Long time ago US was associated with freedom and prosperity. Today everybody associates US influence with the opposite. Libya, Syria, Moldova, Ukraine, Iraq, Egypt. What is next? India, China, Russia, Germany?
You seem to think that the opinions of rogue states and communist tyrannies are all-important when it comes to how the USA is supposedly viewed in the world.
The list of ‘rogue nations’ expands and often not out of necessity. Are Mexico, Canada, Netherlands, France, Germany and Greece rogue nations too? You might think that only American opinion is important and it is okay too. It has consequences though.
Frankly, yes they are rogue nations. Consider who they regard as their allies.
Socialists have always regarded the USA as their number-one obstacle to world socialism. That has always included the EU, an outgrowth of Kaiser Wilhelm II’s idea for “a United States of Europe against America”.
I regard the truth as important, not opinions, and certainly not the opinions of socialists.
I understand your point but don’t support it. I think North Korea, Iran, Sudan are rogue states although they still have legitimate interests.
If you are going to extend the term to include powers like Germany, France and China you need to get ready for them to adopt own standards which would put US into the same category. US foreign policy is not flawless and you know it. If you find enough flaws in Germany to name it a rogue state they’d find more in US to do the same. And the more you expand the list the more solidarity between them.
I light of that it makes sense to bring troops home from every base overseas, to close embassies and for American companies to close shops abroad too.
Sounds weird, isn’t it?
Every rogue state has “legitimate” interests mixed in with their mostly illegitimate ones. That, however, is a nonsequitur.
US foreign policy changes from president to president. Obama was demonstrably leftist and defeatist (literally anti-American) and now Trump is getting things away from that. Compared to other countries that are globalist, the USA’s current foreign policy is the best out of them all.
I think what you are saying is a sort of normalcy bias. US foreign policy is all the same since Bill Clinton and it probably started to shape this way under old Bush.
I understand your point but what you have now is more form than substance and the so-called changes between administrations are only accents of the very same language. The same people are running diplomacy who did under Obama.
That’s not possible since Trump appointed new ambassadors and diplomats. It’s not the bureaucracy that does foreign policy, but the president.
Do you suggest Trump replaced everyone in the State Dept?
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan meet in Sochi, Russia November 22, 2017. (photo credit: SPUTNIK/MIKHAIL METZEL/KREMLIN VIA REUTERS) The Three Amigos
DAMN; ever since Merkel went full on mudslime retard, the krauts have really been trying hard to become relevant in the world again.
“MIDDLE EAST”, it’s a craphole; there see, I did it.
What do I win?
No; just all the leftists, those being the infamous “deep state” albeit not in toto; plenty of other executive bureaucracies to clean the Obama holdovers out of as well. Mass replacements in these bureaucracies are not without precedent.
This is a great big ‘so what’.
I would only get really worried if Macron of France was meeting with the Pope on this issue, Or if the Mayor of London, Khan, was meeting with AOC.
There are more but I’m getting tired.
History has proven otherwise twice in the last century.
The world has changed a lot since those days, especially in Germany as well as Russia. Like I said France and Vatican etc
Don’t you contradict yourself? Deep State is an American thing. I don’t suggest Germany doesn’t have one but come on. US has its leftist component and it is more active in pursuit of its agenda than anything Europe has.
The (reportedly) former Stasi sympathizer and former KGB man, ought to get on famously!
Would that our country were made of some of the same stuff as we were during those two times. Not that there aren’t plenty of patriots, but our moral societal fabric is nearly rotted through, now, thanks to the socialist ideology that has underpinned our educational and governmental systems for decades.
You seem to want to pigeonhole things, never mind read what is not there.
The thing about socialism is that it is primarily an international movement that seeks to wipe out national borders and reconstitute human society without those borders or family, private property or religion under a single dictatorial head. All permutations of a “deep state” in every nation have the same goal; the thing with the USA is that it has been historically the biggest enemy of that movement, hence the biggest attacks by socialism against the USA.
And Europe has been the historical origin of the leftist socialist movement (particularly Germany); thus, all tendrils of that movement lead there ultimately.
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