[Olog-hai]

This is the East German Communist Party, and when they try to invoke Trump in a nice manner, they certainly have the knife behind their backs ready to stab. Cannot trust them.

[DoughtyOne]

I agree with that, but this will toss terror into the mix as the German government realizes they’ve tried to play a game they cannot win.

Merkel is ripping her nation apart.

[free-in-nyc]

If the German communists get together with the Soviets... er, Russians, they can call it Eurasia! (1984 reference)

[nathanbedford]

Germany's Left Party has previously called for warmer ties with Russia and scrapping the security alliance, measures which appear to be policy concerns for the incoming US administration.

I can confirm that this impulse to break Germany away from the United States and attach it to Russia is more widespread than most Americans are likely aware. The "undiplomatic" expressions of Donald Trump and the recent interview only play into the popular image here in Germany that he is a buffoon and an ignoramus. I cannot emphasize enough the depth of this feeling among people who do not even begin to understand why Brixet succeeded in England.

Trump is perhaps speaking this way because he is thinking of making his deal and he is staking out an opening negotiating position. But he must understand that the popular understanding of himself, at least here in Germany, is as I have described. Remember, there is no talk radio here, it is as though everything comes from CNN.

Some of this impulse arises from a desire to do away with the sanctions against Russia and exploit the land as a market, just as Trump has described Germany using the European Union, or as a substitute for the Mercantile policy of the British Empire or the aspirations of Hitler to dominate Europe.

As I tried to describe in two previous replies :

Grand Strategy Comes To The Oil Patch

And

here

An attachment of Germany to Russia, combined with China, would be the ultimate strategic catastrophe for America.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Putin was stationed in E. Germany for a long time. He must know this neighborhood inside and out. According to a news report I once read, he is a guy who could speak every German dialect.

[Gene Eric]

NATO no longer shares a common goal with United States.

Europe is actively importing Islam which is definitively the enemy of the West. And that’s not to condemn the individual born into the heresy of Islam. But nonetheless, Western Europe is proactively destroying itself, persecuting its citizens during the process.

[Disestablishmentarian]

This would not be a surprising development. Germany and Russia have been inching closer for many years.

Should the two actually form a security alliance it would be extremely formidable. Definitely back in the superpower game.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

In American Communism history, Alfred Wagenknecht is a legendary organizer working out of Chicago for the CP of Illinois, among other jobs. Communist Party buddied in the late 30’s/early 40’s with Soviet asset Henry Canter (CPUSA), a Soviet unregistered propaganda operative, and father of id. CPUSA member and Chicago political organizer, David Simon Canter, who was said by his son Marc to have “known” Obama.

Chicago was one of the key CPUSA/Soviet hubs of infiltration and subversion in the US because of its central transportation location and grungy industries, esp. the Meatpacking slaughter houses which the CP eventually controlled.

[pepsionice]

At best, they might be able to pull 11-percent of the vote in September’s election.

If you were to go around and bring up the NATO topic...I think 30-to-40 percent of Germans would suggest that there’s not a lot of need to continue NATO, but they don’t have any desire to mount some security pact with Russia.