Posted on 05/29/2017 1:55:18 PM PDT by blam
Berlin (AFP) — Germany unleashed a volley of criticism Monday against US President Donald Trump, slamming his "short-sighted" policies that have "weakened the West" and hurt European interests.
The sharp words from Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel came after Trump concluded his first official tour abroad which took him to Saudi Arabia, Israel, Brussels and then Italy for a G7 summit.
They followed Chancellor Angela Merkel's warning on Sunday that the United States and Britain may no longer be completely reliable partners.
Germany's exasperation was laid bare after the G7 summit which wrapped up on Saturday with the US refusing so far to sign up to upholding the 2015 Paris climate accord.
Days earlier, in Saudi Arabia, Trump had presided over the single largest US arms deal in American history, worth $110 billion over the next decade and including ships, tanks and anti-missile systems.
Gabriel said Monday that "anyone who accelerates climate change by weakening environmental protection, who sells more weapons in conflict zones and who does not want to politically resolve religious conflicts is putting peace in Europe at risk".
"The short-sighted policies of the American government stand against the interests of the European Union," he said, judging that "the West has become smaller, at least it has become weaker".
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No my socialist friend YOU “weakened The West.” Trump just recognized it.
AHHH the Billy look
I have no love for Merkel but she’s not weak - she’s a committed left-wing, multi-culti socialist type from East Germany who seems determined to destroy her country. And her sex has nothing to do with it.
"Mein Fuhrer....I can walk!"
“anyone who accelerates climate change by weakening environmental protection, who sells more weapons in conflict zones and who does not want to politically resolve religious conflicts is putting peace in Europe at risk”.
Well of course..
They believe that climate change is the primary cause of terrorism.
Obama told them that!
“..he [Obama] asserted that global warming will put people in desperate straits. And when “human beings are placed under strain,” he added, “then bad things happen. And if you look at world history, whenever people are desperate… that’s when ideologies arise that are dangerous.””
“The Administration has a habit of gauzily tying global warming to rising terrorism. In Paris, Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes argued, “… the instability that we see in parts of Africa and the Middle East… can be magnified by the effects of climate change and extreme drought and extreme disruption.” And in October at the Universal Exposition in Milan, Secretary of State John Kerry said, “Now, I’m not telling you that the crisis in Syria was caused by climate change…. But the devastating drought clearly made a bad situation a lot worse.””
And.
Chelsea recently said that child marriage is a consequence of climate change.
It’s all posturing. We will see what happens. Trump wants to modify Paris and the Eurotwits are playing hardball seeing if he will blink.
Every one of these euroscum have sold out their own countries and continent for a seat at the international bankers table. In reality as traitors they will be the first up against the wall if western civilization falls. It is always that way in revolutions. Who could ever trust traitors?
European Union, guess they have no countries anymore. All Americans should be pissed by the disrespect shown our president. And btw these ass hats have weakened Europe, and WE did it by not supporting some nonsense climate accord? Pi*s on them.
The population is set to decline from a 2002 peak of 82m to 74.5m by 2050, according to the United Nations. The percentage of Germans under 15 is forecast to fall to 13 per cent, among the world’s lowest. The share of those over 60 is expected to rise from 27 per cent to 39 per cent.
Pensions and heath care costs are expected to grow more rapidly than the long-term economic growth rate, increasing the burden on a shrinking working population. In Germany the total cost of the elderly to the public purse is forecast by the European Commission to rise from 24 per cent of gross domestic product in 2013 to 28 per cent in 2040. In the UK the share is expected to grow from 22 per cent to 24 per cent and in France to stay flat at around 31 per cent.
The free ride is over. Get off your FAT ass and start pulling your own weight or go on a diet.
Either way, the Donald isn't signing anymore blank checks for freeloaders.
Merkel represents post-modern European central-planning multi-culti leftists at their worst.
Anyone who opposes their new religion is a heretic
Germany your language is dead and so is your country.
THat pyramid is trending to reverse dependency...where the old, not the young are dependent on the working class. The signal of a dying culture that requires massive amounts of debt to sustain. MErkel is dying to get middle eastern workers in to keep Europe alive. You are dead either way
Sounds like the dip-chits aren't laughing any more...
I think you are missing the fact they are complaining because we don’t support the mass muslim migration they want. Their charge that we are “weakening”them is leftist insanity. How the hell could we possibly be doing that?
>>We still need to maintain Europe because Germany has risen enough from its ashes to again begin to make real power plays in the Continent and the world.
What was done in the past was necessary because of the situation at the time. Just as a different situation now requires different thinking. I work with Germans a lot and they do not have the guts to be a Great Power much less THE Great Power. No European nation, including the USA, has the will to be a Great Power in the 20th century sense.
>>Our once-strong allies <<
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When was Germany a STRONG ally?
They’ve been semi-pacifist since WWII.
Before that, on the other side.
Cold War face-off with USSR was primarily U.S. & U.K. protecting Germany.
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