Posted on 01/09/2026 8:48:42 AM PST by Salman
BERLIN, Jan 8 (Reuters) - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has strongly criticised U.S. foreign policy under President Donald Trump and urged the world not to let the world order disintegrate into a "den of robbers" where the unscrupulous take what they want.
In unusually strong remarks, which appeared to refer to actions such as the ousting of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro at the weekend, the former foreign minister said global democracy was being attacked as never before.
Although the German president's role is largely ceremonial, his words carry some weight and he has more freedom to express views than politicians.
Describing Russia's annexation of Crimea and the full-scale invasion of Ukraine as a watershed, Steinmeier said the U.S. behaviour represented a second historic rupture.
"Then there is the breakdown of values by our most important partner, the USA, which helped build this world order," Steinmeier said in remarks at a symposium late on Wednesday.
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And this is bad, why?
Germany Pingy
Bet they were also sad when Reagan, Thatcher, Pope John Paul, and Lech Walesa stood up to the Soviet Union and East Bloc rulers.
Oh, and this is a bad thing?
Germany and the EU are destroying international order not Donald Trump.
The “world order” is fifteen minute brown cities (both people and excrement) with people eating bugs—while the elites live in splendor in the countryside.
No thanks!
You know what you can do with your world order, Frank.
I wonder if Steinmeier was close to Joshua Fischer, the terrorist and politician?
Spoken from a Lectern as he looked out over a Sea of newly welcomed Muslim voters !
He says this like it’s a bad thing.
There is no world order. It’s every nation for itself. Trump is RESTORING that proper order, and dismantling the one the globalists built upon a foundation of lies.
Good!
That’s what I voted for.
Europe is engaged in deliberate deindustrialization, aka suicide.
The lights are going out.
U.S. is decoupling from their insanity.
Germany 0-2
Just saying
bttt
Exactly, stopping the World Order which has been under way for decades. The order that Soros, the WEF, and the UN has been plotting. The very order which pushed mass migration to northern nations. Darn tootin’! Let’s destroy that evil order!
If a socialist german stands in a forest and says something... does anyone care?
The US created the global order for the purpose of containing the Soviet Union.
It’s created a great deal of wealth, around the world.
The US had benefitted, but relatively soaking it’s cost us more and benefitted US less than the rest of the world.
The USSR collapsed 35 years ago.
Why are we still paying for this?
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