Posted on 05/03/2026 10:54:49 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Germany’s Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, attacked Trump over the war in Iran. Trump responded by withdrawing 5,000 troops from Germany. The attack was a foolish thing for Merz to have done, but perhaps given the state of Islamic control over German society, he felt he had no other choice.
It all started last Monday, when Merz announced that the U.S. was losing in Iran and essentially demanded that the U.S. beat a speedy retreat:
“ The problem with conflicts like this is always you don’t just have to get in – you have to get out again. We saw that very painfully in Afghanistan for 20 years. We saw it in Iraq,” he said.
Merz said Iranian officials were “obviously negotiating very skilfully” and appeared “clearly stronger than one thought”, adding that “an entire nation is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership”, particularly by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
This was a bizarre statement to make, given that the reality is that Iran’s Navy and Air Force are gone, its air defenses are gone, its military and political leadership are dead (including, probably, Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei), its missile launchers mostly destroyed, and its access to the world oil market, which funds the government and military, completely cut off.
Iran’s only weapon is to hope that congressional Democrats copy what Democrats did in 1975 and pull funds. That reversed the victory in Vietnam, and both Democrats and Iran’s despots hope it will do the same in Iran today. (This time, though, the stakes are exponentially higher, of course.)
Merz’s fact-free attack irked Trump. Indeed, it irked him so much that he asked the Pentagon to determine whether American taxpayers really need to pay to keep around 38,000 troops in Germany…
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Yes, but also that our troops in Germany are providing income and NATO is not the supporting Trump.
My guess is that it’s because of the influence and Muslim pressure within Germany.
Unlike the secular Turks who arrived as workers in the 1960s, the Muslims who have poured in since Angela Merkel opened the border in 2015 are extremely radical.
I also suspect that they’ve also radicalized the descendants of those original Turkish immigrants.
Germany doesn’t keep religious statistics for its residents. However, a current guesstimate is that 6-7% of the total population is now Muslim. In Berlin, the capital city, that guesstimate is 10-11%.
Given the constant inflow of Muslim migrants, the money coming their way, and the fact that Muslims are constantly flexing their muscles, it’s laughable to hear Chancellor Merz claim that he confidently expects 80% of Syrians to head back home in the next three years.
They’ve been given the keys to the kingdom, so why should they?
One gets the feeling that Germany has been hijacked, economically, culturally, and in the criminal justice system.
Chancellor Merz is not calling the shots, and that means turning his back on the West in the war against Iran, no matter the consequences.
Hitler wanted Germany to be Muslim, because he thought it was a better religion for soldiers, he believed had the Aryan Germans adopted Islam, instead of “flabby” Christianity, they would have conquered the world.
Angela Merkel assumed that she'll be getting more of the secular Turks and they were going to vote for her party (CDU).
She was trying to prevent parties like AfD from consolidating power.
Millions of immigrants vote as a "block" and that was what Merkel was trying to secure.
Israel can whack Iran’s oil industry and revenue by means proven by Ukraine [attacks on refineries, sunken tankers] to work well for which the leading nations of the West and their leftist leaders didn’t yell “war crime” or “genocide”.
“AIP technology, especially fuel-cell systems with minimal moving parts, enables vessels to remain submerged for weeks.
“This dramatically enhances stealth and survivability while reducing acoustic and thermal signatures, making sonar and infrared detection exceedingly difficult.
https://worldisraelnews.com/israels-silent-guardians-the-idfs-advanced-submarine-fleet/
No Muslim nation is capable of militarily conquering a significant western nation.
They do however have the will and means to do so by immigration.
Infiltrate, dominate and displace has been and is the strategy.
The cohesiveness of their religion prevents integration, birth rates guarantee eventual domination, their violence and militancy intimidates resistance.
All enabled by our political “leaders”.
as well they might have
Germany is now naked to possible Russian aggression. Big mistake for them, they have already been shown to be idiots by Trump several times.
It’s not the Russians that they need to worry about.
Well, if we have 38k there and he’s only pulling 5k, it’s more of a gesture than anything else.
No.
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