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As tensions with Trump deepen, Europe wonders if America is lost for good
The Worcester Telegram ^ | May 19, 2018 | Griff Witte and Michael Birnbaum, The Washington Post

Posted on 05/19/2018 4:39:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

BERLIN - Since Jan. 20, 2017, European leaders have managed U.S. relations with one eye on the clock, anxiously counting down the hours until President Donald Trump’s term is up and hoping the core of the Western alliance isn’t too badly damaged in the meantime.

But as Trump’s aggressive rhetoric toward America’s closest allies has evolved into hostile action this spring, a new fear has swept European capitals.

Trump may not be an aberration that can be waited out, with his successor likely to push reset after four or eight years of fraught ties. Instead, the blend of unilateralism, nationalism and protectionism Trump embodies may be the new American normal.

“It is dawning on a number of European players that Trump may not be an outlier,” said Josef Janning, head of the Berlin office of the European Council on Foreign Relations. “More and more people are seeing it as a larger change in the United States.”

Even before Trump was elected, Europeans sensed that Washington’s traditional role as guarantor of the continent’s security and stability was slipping away, and that post-World War II ties were fading along with the generations that forged them....

(Excerpt) Read more at telegram.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: europe; maga; trump; winning
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
You Europeans should be more worried about this courtship.


21 posted on 05/19/2018 4:53:36 PM PDT by McGruff (MAGA)
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To: CodeToad

Yup. And it’s going to get nasty.

GDPR is intentionally written in a way it CANNOT be complied with. This is economic warfare by Brussels against the US, plain and simple.

So pull our troops out, tell them to go screw, and let the chips fall where they may.


22 posted on 05/19/2018 4:54:32 PM PDT by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
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To: piytar

BtW by “them,” I obviously don’t mean our troops. I mean Germany, France, and the other EU nations.


23 posted on 05/19/2018 4:55:58 PM PDT by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
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To: piytar

“So pull our troops out”

This^


24 posted on 05/19/2018 5:00:25 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If this reflects general opinion in Europe, they have a skewed way of thinking. They should consider how they have contribued to their own lostness, beginning in August, 1914, if not before, and how their own policies — foreign and domestic — in recent decades have eaten away at what was left of a once-great civilization.

If I recall correctly, we bailed them out twice last century from their own ideological and political disasters. We rebuilt the West with the Marshall Plan. We have paid for most of their military security for over seventy years. We prevailed in the Cold War, leading to the collapse of the Soviet Union and its hegemony over the East, and giving the East a chance at freedom. And they whine about how they are afraid that we’re done saving them.

Maybe we once were lost, but now we’re found.

Oh — Europeans — if you are counting the days until the end of the Trump presidency,it will be, God willing, on January 20, 2025.


25 posted on 05/19/2018 5:05:03 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

America is on the rebound; it’s Europe that appears lost for good.


26 posted on 05/19/2018 5:05:49 PM PDT by Boomer (Leftism is a Malignant Moral Cancer on Society!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m in favor of bombing the racists and Nazis in Brussels.


27 posted on 05/19/2018 5:08:04 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
If you mean the America you hoped you would get with a Clinton win...it does mean it is lost to you.

If you mean the America that values personal Freedom and Liberty... it don't.


28 posted on 05/19/2018 5:09:19 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: COBOL2Java

Hahahaha...I’m takin that!


29 posted on 05/19/2018 5:09:52 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Europe and the American Euro worshippimg progressive worshippers were

Like the man said.....

The future us east ofSuez


30 posted on 05/19/2018 5:11:23 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (Long Live the Republic!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We saved your ass 3 times in a century and
you still endanger the world due to your dumbass policies.

I’m sure when you fall to the Islamofilth we’ll be
back but next time we’re staying


31 posted on 05/19/2018 5:16:55 PM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Lefties looooooove projection


32 posted on 05/19/2018 5:17:47 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Pravious
They’re allowing their dopey socialist countries to be watered down with lawless immigrants who terrorize the natives . . . then have the gall to wonder if WE’RE lost because we’re not the suicidal leftist wankers that they are.

Screw you, Europe. YOU’RE the ones who flushed your own cultures down the toilet.

Even the British are hoping Meghan Miracle will appease the dangerous forces of their culture shift.

33 posted on 05/19/2018 5:19:44 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Europe wonders if America is lost for good”

Get back to us in 40 years when your men spend half the day with their butts in the air and your women are in burkas.


34 posted on 05/19/2018 5:21:02 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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To: Billthedrill

IIRC we had to lead from behind in Libya because they didn’t even have refueling capability for their planes.


35 posted on 05/19/2018 5:21:16 PM PDT by MrKatykelly (Hello)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think Europe set the tone when they established the European Union as a semi dictatorship/socialistic government.


36 posted on 05/19/2018 5:22:47 PM PDT by Real Cynic No More
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To: roadcat
Europe is lost

Unfortunately you are correct. I was stationed in Germany in the 80's and remember all the wonderful towns, especially the beautiful train station in Munich. A friend went thru there a couple of months ago and sent me some pictures. He said it looks like a homeless shelter for Muslims and he was right.

37 posted on 05/19/2018 5:23:31 PM PDT by capydick (“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“But as Trump’s aggressive rhetoric toward America’s closest allies has evolved into hostile action this spring, a new fear has swept European capitals.”

What the...? This is insane writing.


38 posted on 05/19/2018 5:24:03 PM PDT by Lent
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To: TexasGator

The Crown Prince of SA is right about that - as an advocate, he would know.


39 posted on 05/19/2018 5:24:48 PM PDT by capydick (“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.)
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To: capydick

You need to do some homework.


40 posted on 05/19/2018 5:28:15 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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