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G7 — World Throws Tantrum As President Trump Puts America First
The Revolutionary Act ^ | 06/08/18

Posted on 06/08/2018 9:23:48 AM PDT by Liberty7732

Leading up to the G7 summit, the entirety of the world Left, from Eurocrats to Media to American Democrats, are angry and supposedly fearful over President Trump starting a new trade war and tearing down the post World War II world order. They claim he is destabilizing the western world and much of the globe.

But that stability was for too long built on America shouldering everyone else’s load, from military protection for Europeans who could afford to do more for their own defense to unfavorable trade deals with those same Europeans and non-allied competitors such as China. In the decade or two after WWII decimated the world, that probably made sense. Maybe even through the fall of the Soviet Union in 1988, although that is less clear. But by 2018?

A shakeup in that part of the Post-War order is long overdue, and many common-sense Americans know this. And it may ultimately be good for the Europeans, depending on their long-term response.

The global pre-G7 hand-wringing and anger of the elitist Left is more akin to a child who has been coddled and spoiled and is suddenly being held to account for his actions. That child is naturally going to be angry and throw a tantrum.

This is most clear with our cushioned western European allies. Our eastern European allies are less elitist, less cushioned and have a more pro-American take.

Donald Tusk, President of the European Council and an elitist bureaucrat among elitist bureaucrats, arrogantly dismissed President Trump as mere “seasonal turbulence.” It’s really pitch perfect for exactly what is wrong in Europe, including that this man, a “president,” is utterly unaccountable and unreachable by any European voters.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said after Trump criticized European leaders for not spending what they promised to spend on military as part of NATO — part of America shouldering an undue share of their burden: “the times when we could fully rely on others are to some extent over.”

Germany has been one of the biggest leeches on the American military, and thus American taxpayer, even though they were at the front line of the Iron Curtain. If Merkel is saying “fully rely” on America to carry too much of the German defense burden, then hopefully she is right. It doesn’t mean we aren’t allies.

But Merkel, arguably the worst Post-War German Chancellor (counting only West Germans when the nation was divided) has continued on her anti-Trump, and anti-America-first rhetoric leading up to the G7.

Just Wednesday, she said, “That was my takeaway from the NATO summit, and in the meantime I continue to feel confirmed by my statement…All of that confirms the assessment that the world is being reorganized.”

Merkel, along with French, Belgium, Norway, Sweden and other western European leaders combine the NATO comments with Trump’s decision to exit from the Paris global climate treaty — which has since been revealed to be the empty vessel it was — and his exit from the Iran nuclear “accord” last month with his push for more fair trade for Americans, as a threat.

It’s only a threat to the coddled. Ultimately, forcing the Europeans to stand more firmly on their own two legs, and compete for fairly, will be good for them unless they just lay on the floor scream in tantrum mode. They probably will not. After an adjustment period, they will begin altering policies to reflect the new reality and potentially become more lean and competitive and be able to carry more of their own defense load.

Because the reality is that the American economy is rocking from top to bottom, and a lot of it is due directly to the election of Trump and his deregulation and tax policies.

Here is a telling confession from a top American economist: “A lot of us economists have had our long-term forecasts ruined by the election of Donald Trump,” Moody Managing Director and Chief Economist John Lonski told Fox Business Network’s Stuart Varney. “The idea was that growth would be stuck at 2 percent indefinitely, stagnation had set in for the long run and now we’re not so sure that is necessarily going to be the cast.”

GDP growth is now estimated to be 3.5 percent this year. Trump has changed the domestic paradigm as he is working on the international paradigm.

Trump upsetting the table cart domestically has meant net good things for all Americans who don’t want to just live on the dole. It can mean the same for our European allies, too. But they’ll have to adjust.

We won’t see that sentiment at the G7 summit. But we might down the road.


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To: Grampa Dave

Very interesting that Trump has told the G-7 Russia needs to be back in the G-7.....LOLOLOL

Love this man....he’s forever steps ahead of the others...The EU is weak and they know it. Trumps bypassing them to get done what needs to get done with those he can deal with. Enemy or foe the Trump Effect rides on!!!!!


21 posted on 06/08/2018 11:11:55 AM PDT by caww
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To: Liberty7732

It just dawned on me that the reason the EU can be so socialist and still survive is because America underwrites it. We were paying for most of NATO, the UN, military bases in their countries that protect them and bad trade deals.

If Trump is successful we are going to be in the black soon.


22 posted on 06/08/2018 11:12:10 AM PDT by tiki
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To: laplata

Merkel and Tusk are still operating as if they have the Power they once welded.....Trumps been showing them for months this isn’t the case any longer.....their denial is as bad as the libs here.


23 posted on 06/08/2018 11:15:52 AM PDT by caww
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To: tiki

The EU is in chaos.... When you force different cultures people to live together what did they expect?

Germany was defeated in 2 world wars but has tried to gain control of Europe by other means this time around.


24 posted on 06/08/2018 11:26:24 AM PDT by caww
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To: caww

Right on! Good one.


25 posted on 06/08/2018 12:03:42 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: chief lee runamok

Today filling in for Rush, Mark Steyn gave a very good explanation of how the parasite countries in Europe are being subsidized under the table by U.S. taxpayers. Also the 270% tariff Canada puts on U.S. dairy products entering the country. Trump is trying to correct that.


26 posted on 06/08/2018 1:40:26 PM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: originalbuckeye

Oderunt dum metuant (let them hate so long as they fear.)

Nifty little Roman saying.


27 posted on 06/08/2018 2:06:51 PM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites.)
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To: FLT-bird

No more freeloading by the EU, Mexico, Canada, and others off of our tax dollar backs; get out of the wagon EU and start pulling it like most of us do in the US, and like the former communist block countries do (the middle Europeans such as Poland, Hungary, the Czechs, Slovenes, etc.) who know how much socialist thinking sucks.

The EU elites are leading their countries into a sinkhole of PC thinking, and welfare mentality, while ceding their states to an ever increasing takeover by Muzzies who are conquering the EU from within as they can’t get their meat hooks into it from without by war. Breeding like rabbits and wielding their scimitars in terrorist attacks to cow EU inhabitants should do the trick. Thus Londonistan, the total takeover of various Paris suburbs, the ruination of Sweden, Belgium and other EU countries, thus laying the groundwork for another massive world war brought on by their appeasement mentality and foolish social engineering policies.

We have choices to make in this country also, as we teeter on the precipice of some of the same foolish policies. Only Trump’s presidency has slowed down the process, as he unmasks the internal corruption of our own police state run entities (FBI, CIA, DOJ) and exposes the deep state swamp of leftist elite Dems and RINO establishment Pubs, along with never Trumpers, who are trying to rule over and destroy our country by fiat. A pox on all of them. (Okay, I feel better; it’s all about feelings and emotions now, isn’t it, so I just emoted.)

My general preference is to be rational and logical, which is in short supply in this world of ours today one might say. It’s all propaganda and brainwashing of the masses by wily and corrupt greedy politicians and elitist leftist oligarchs who know what is better for us, don’t you know, as they destroy individualism in their pursuit of globalism and a world without borders. They can then dominate and rule over their hopefully servile sheep, after first disarming their citizens (as done by all previous despots) so that they they can impose their collective wills on their flocks unimpeded. California and New York will be the first to go down this socialist rat hole; they are well on their way already to their leftist commie paradise. Second Civil War is coming, my friends, perhaps sooner than later.

Rant now over, .... momentarily


28 posted on 06/08/2018 2:48:26 PM PDT by flaglady47 (TRUMP 45 - will lethargic Conservatives let him be impeached by Dems? )
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To: Liberty7732
I just found out about a long list of TARIFFS which Canada already has in place for USA imports into Canada. Some as high as 300% on American products !!! And now that Trump is closing the free to exploit markets of USA, Canadians & Europeans are squealing like wounded Pigs! HYPOCRISY Anyone?

And why didn't all these pseudo conservative so called "free traders" in USA DON'T say a word about the tariffs ALREADY in place by Canada, Mexico & Europe? Either the free traders in USA are clueless or harbor hypocrisy.

29 posted on 06/08/2018 3:32:43 PM PDT by entropy12 (1 Mil Daca is the shining object to hide 30 mil low quality LEGAL immigrants in last 25 years)
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