Posted on 08/31/2021 2:55:03 PM PDT by Olog-hai
After the Taliban took Kabul and desperate Afghans flooded the airport trying to escape the country, outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed her dismay: “The developments are bitter, dramatic and terrible,” she said at a press conference on August 16. “It seems right now like it was all in vain.”
For Germany, whose military has spent nearly 20 years in Afghanistan, the human and financial cost has been significant. The Bundeswehr, Germany’s army, entered Afghanistan to support the US after the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001 — in what would become its largest and longest military deployment abroad. Along the way, Germany committed to the nation-building project. Now those hopes have been dashed.
The chancellor candidate for Merkel’s Christian Democrats, Armin Laschet, spoke of a major blow to the trans-Atlantic relationship and dismay at US President Joe Biden’s actions: “I was disappointed by his announcement on April 14 that he would implement Donald Trump’s Afghanistan withdrawal order one-to-one without fully involving the allies in this momentous decision,” Laschet told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper in mid-August.
“It is a big loss of confidence. In particular in America’s competency as a military power,” says political analyst Stephan Bierling of Regensburg University. “After four catastrophic years under Trump, we had a very positive view of Joe Biden. Now that mood is changing.” …
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Hey krauts....welcome to the party
Merkel supported the election of this mental case.
Gee, those 4 years under Trump were pretty good for Americans.
You wanted Biden, you got him, you stupid Krauts.
Hey, Merkel: You wanted Biden, you got him! Embrace the suck!
Now Germany/EU can apologize to President Trump.
Impossible, Krauts possess no emotion.
Germans are pretty good at occupying countries. Maybe they could have done.
Probably would have been a lot cheaper.
Hard to believe they were any chillier than they were under Trump but you never know.
Way to go with the allies. Oh yeah Trump was so bad. Not.
There ..... fixed.
“We had a very positive view of Joe Biden.”
If that is so, then the Germans are fools (like so many of the other European countries). All they had to do was look at his record of lying and corruption.
They just had to look at his record of demanding that all financial support be pulled from the South Vietnamese Army, who were fighting the Communists (which he did for political reasons), to see the likelihood of Germany’s being thrown under the bus when a political opportunity presented itself.
That’s what Merkle, Macron and Boris wanted. Euroidiots.
The Huns could always stay......
Should listened to Bob Gates.
“I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” He also accuse Biden of “poisoning the well” against military leadership.
Told ya so!
Is she explaining her view of U.S./German relations, or writing her tindr profile?
I don't think they were exactly bad for Germans either. Trump did insist they pay more for their own defense. Yikes!
The Germans were pissed that Trump called them out on their grifting of America. They were happy about the stolen election. Now they’re pissed they’re going to get another wave of Afghans to culturally enrich them.
Our leverage with Germany is the fact that when the chips are down they can count on us to defend them.
I think we just frittered that away. Notice that most of our allies were on the phone with Putin and ducking calls from Biden.
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