Posted on 03/18/2018 9:48:42 AM PDT by Olog-hai
US President Donald Trump “will not succeed” in dividing European nations against one another over trade, German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier warned on Sunday ahead of a visit to Washington.
In the European Union “we are a customs union and act collectively. It cannot be in the interest of the US government to divide Europe, nor will it succeed,” Altmaier told German business daily Handelsblatt. […]
“Companies and consumers on both sides would foot the bill if the US and Europe tumble into a trade war,” Altmaier said.
Meanwhile, countries like China that stand accused of flooding global markets with cheap steel would be “laughing on the sidelines”, he added. …
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All of that, but you never refute the reality of American coming to the rescue of Europe.....
“Lend Lease Act...Normandy, NAfrica, Italy, Convoys to Murmansk, 5th Bomber Group over Europe, The Bulge and liberation of France and into Germany.”
Then you ask for a book list? Do you have no basic knowledge of history?
BTW, I see Pooty-Poot has poisoned yet another. And he is about to sham his way thru another “Election”
Yes Europe will be the next Islamic state, Allah Akba.
Certainly in the case of the alliance with the USSR, that is applicable.
I will certainly never forget “Very well; alone” and “Keep calm and carry on” (the latter in its original context rather than the multifarious and sometimes insulting parody memes).
The US won’t have to split Europe — the Muslims will do it with ease and then destroy it with an even smaller effort.
Wiedershauen Deutschland, Au revoir la France, Tot ziens Netherlands.
Won’t happen, although it looks like it could in some corners.
The EU is absolutely dedicated to rule by crisis; the rise of “right wing” parties is a calculated one in response to the influx of Mahometans, and the fear of same is also one to enable a shift to the “right” by mainstream parties, thus allowing them to take more and more power. Also, the “Permanent structured cooperation” (PESCO) of the military forces of EU member states (under German command) is continuing apace.
At this point, we should just tell our Moslems what a wonderful place Germany is and give them each a plane ticket to migrate over there, where they can join their fellow Moslems in establishing their new caliphate. Call it al-Germania, if you will.
How? There is hardly the complement of German "alpha males" that there was in the Nazi era, since a great deal of them were killed off in WWII, and if we had a sane immigration policy, the Moslems over there could be prevented from coming over here. So a partial danger, but not necessarily fatal.
What is nonsense is denying the factual reality that the US saved the Euro bacon from both the Nazis and then the Soviets.
Northern and Central Europe were gone to the Blitzkrieg. What power was going to be the arsenal of democracy to save them?
Nobody. It was over for them. Britain was spared only because its island nation was harder to take. But they almost lost their entire army at Dunkirk.
Without us, the Euros are speaking German and after many years, maybe worse, by speaking Russian.
You people are not history deniers. You are clearly factual deniers and have little reasoning power.
Those were not “alpha males”. No such people blindly follow an evil leader. There are the same kind of people as in the past, over there; far more professional soldiers than the press lets on about, albeit just as ready to “obey orders” as seven decades ago. Ruling by crisis is just that, and it’s always designed to get the people to demand a strong-man leader to “save” them.
That’s not the case. Especially given how much collaboration there was in Europe given to both.
It’s also conceivable that there would have been no USSR without the help of the Second Reich, never mind the Fabian sympathizers in Britain.
Ignore Washington’s words at your peril; Wilson and FDR thought they could get away with doing so, almost until it was too late. FDR in particular would have been willing to coexist with a Nazi Europe if it simply refrained from going to war with the USA. And now history is repeating one more time albeit with a different slant; ignoring it this time would be a huge error.
It is precisely the case, especially considering the small resistance that Europe put up to stop the German Nazis.
The words and timing matter little...but the actions of the US military were the only thing that saved Europe from the Germans and the Soviets.
The only thing, eh?
Well, it’s heartening to see one have the same thoughts about the British and Churchill that Obama held. Those 326,000 British troops, sailors and pilots obviously died in vain, yes?
Read any objective, reputable history of the Second World War, and you will find nothing to contradict the premiss that Hitler was defeated by an alliance, not by a single nation. (An alliance which, uncomfortable and temporary as it was, included Soviet Russia. Had it not been for Stalingrad and Kursk, there could have been a very different outcome.)
And "Britain was spared only because its island nation was harder to take. But they almost lost their entire army at Dunkirk.". Far from it. I suggest you cast your eye over
And you forget, inter alia, the Royal Navy, without which D-day would have been impossible (and the total of British and Empire troops on D-day exceeded the total of Americans), not to mention the RAF and the Battle of Britain. The caricature of Britain post-1940 as a hopeless, helpless lost cause which could do nothing to help itself is a fantasy. Not to mention an implied insult to the memory of the 700000 military and 60000 civilians who died defending their country from 1939 onwards.
If you’re taking flak you are over the target.
My Pres Trump can try & save Europe too.
If you can’t comprehend facts and basic realities of our history, that is on you.
I never said a bad word about our great Brit allies. But, they had no capacity to beat back the Germans in Europe, as they were defending their island Nation from conquest.
The facts are clear that the US saved Europe’s bacon in WWII.
That takes nothing away from the Brits inventing a superior radar system, their common people victory at Dunkirk, and the Battle in the Air over Britain. But that was all in defending themselves. Without US assistance and manpower, Europe speaks German to this day. Simple reality.
We did it before.
When you read the crap about starting a trade war when we have been in a trade war for decades you can stop reading. The rest is base on a lie.
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