One cannot stress enough how important it is that these dialogues about history are being aired out in the open like this.
Far too many Europeans forget the enormous sacrifice Americans made on their behalf and that their freedoms today are a direct consequence of our (initially reluctant) participation in combatting the forces of totalitarianism, which threatened to swallow the continent and ultimately the world (Had Soviet Russia had its way.)
Every major conflict we see today even outside of Europe, has to be understood through this lens, from the Middle East and Afghanistan, to the remaining socialist enclaves of Cuba and Venezuela in Latin America, to nuclear North Korea and tyrannical China, etc...
The world, including Germany, would be a much different place had the U.S. led West retreated in the 20th Century.
I’m no expert on this... if fact I’m not as smart as these two bit politician, but I know this...
If my country is importing 70% + of it’s natural gas from Russia, and Russia gets mad a me, for what ever reason, they can shut off my gas....Then what?
These people are foolish....
Actually, Germany and the rest of western Europe was bought by the Saudis, and they are taking possession of it with Merkle’s active participation.
We have NATO to protect the west form a Russian attack, but then she goes ahead and relies on Russia’s energy. In essence all Russia has to do is turn off their pipeline and cripple Germany , so exactly why the hell do we still have NATO?
Germany is always a problem in Europe.
So, given her experience of growing up in a Germany under Russian occupation, how is it that Merkel wants to flood Germany and the rest of Europe with fake Islamonazi refugees who make the Russians seem ultra civilized by comparison?
Not just witnessed. Collaborated.
” ‘I have witnessed’ Germany under Soviet control”
And still she did not Learn anything!!!
There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell, I’d sign off on my nation getting it’s most vital Winter energy needs, from Russia.
What’s Germany’s back-up plan, stock up on coffins for three quarters of their populace?
She was a part of that Soviet control.
“I have witnessed this myself, that a part of Germany was controlled by the Soviet Union.”
Merkel witnessed it when she was a STASI agent.
And she LIKED it.
He touched a nerve.
There are very few attitudes as vile as ingratitude. I would like to think the best of West Europeans and assume they speak out of ignorance but it seems to be more a matter of entitlement born of hubris.
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Explain THAT, Bumdestag.
Uhh, Angie, did Trump say “Soviet Control”?
She was a member of the East German Communist party and the Free German Youth.
By getting a direct pipeline, Merkel has fulfilled Hitler’s vision.
Hitler invaded Russia for land and oil
Germany is not under American “control”. It is freeloading off of America in multiple ways. Insisting that the relationship have reciprocity is not “control”. It’s the basis of a real alliance if there is to be one. If Germany is unwilling to agree to equality, the US needs to pull the troops out and withdraw from NATO.