Except for Bolton. He looks like he REALLY needs to make a head call.
Posted on 09/06/2019 4:53:13 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
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Except for Bolton. He looks like he REALLY needs to make a head call.
I didn’t either, trying to win back the older crowd, I suppose, but she’s only 97 years, 7 months old.
BOOGER!
This what you get when you have a VERY Successful business Man as President.
So - after two World Wars and tens of millions of the murdered - we’re still paying Germany not to be aggressors?
You need to understand context in order to understand our post WWII policy.
WWII can be linked directly to the harsh terms imposed on Germany after WWI.
The thinking was (as I understand it) rather that kick them while they are down, help them rebuild their economy and remove the threat of another Hitler rising up.
Since the world has not seen another WW since then, you could say the policy worked.
However, it is long past time that the Europeans begin paying for their own defense and not the American taxpayers.
In this I support President Trump.
(I know it is much more complicated then this, but then this is just a quick post on a thread that will fade in memory before the day is over)
This is truly the issue. For over 60 years, Europe has been able to slough off their own national defense onto the backs of the US taxpayer through NATO. And then their social welfare spending increased as they knew the US would take care of their security - such spending made our leftists salivate with jealousy. Trump insisting EU nations spend to their agreed to minimal amounts has angered Europe’s welfare dependent leadership, and rightly hampered their economies.
Merkel's BFF got beaten by Trump.
There is a difference between the situation in Germany and Japan, I think. This is in part because Japan subsidizes our military presence there, and in part because for all practical purposes China is still our military enemy, so Japan acts as our forward base supporting our presence in the west Pacific, making it much for difficult for China to military expand its influence.
America’s wealth over the past many decades has been redistributed to many other countries. First off, we never get a thank you we just get more handout requests.
Second, we have many economic problems domestically that need to be addressed. Our own welfare programs have also siphoned billions from infrastructure. We have a crisis in our education system which also siphons off massive dollars for a poor education rife with liberal indoctrination.
This poor education allows children to grow up with no actual marketable skills and huge debt which ripples into the economy as well as kids can’t afford houses, two parent s must work so one can no longer help in their communities.
The inner cities are a near bankrupt war zone - nobody seems to care.
So with only a few of the bigger war criminals hanged for their atrocities, we rapidly switched to rebuilding and forgetting.
Nonetheless, the Nazi and Japanese regimes and the common cultures were really evil - worse, modern, state-of-the-art evil - and no one should ever assume the best of either of them.
P.S.; I an really glad the French or someone caught up with Joachim Peiper after we went easy on him.
I guess the NFL said close enough! :)
Bkmk
Germany by no stretch is a victim but they were screwed after WWI and the Allies after WWII gave an incredible deal to Stalin to stick it to Germany while subsequently giving the rise to Communism. That liberal rot is still devouring the world today even if the Soviet Union is no more. The European Union is Soviet lite and Germany has no identity and ironically has its own barbarians inside the gate in Muslims.
The old paradigm - U.S. stupidity props up China, which props up Germany, which props of Europe.
Trumps ploy with China is the real “reset” compared to Billary, Inc.’s “reset” with Moscow that never took place.
We have more than our share of muslims over here also. One day they will begin doing what muslims do best.
Glad to hear that my Pack beat da bears, but the NFL is dead to me.
Along with every other “virtue signaling entity”, like Walmart, Target, et al.
Some of the Marshall Plan monies were grants, some loans. Germany had repaid the loan parts by 1971. But I guess that does not fit the author's narrative.
Has Germany ever reimbursed the U.S. for its military presence? Has Germany ever reimbursed the U.S. for its on-way tariffs on U.S. goods? Does Germany pay its fair share for NATO? The UN?
Those loans amounted to a pittance, walking around money. But if you need something to bitch about, fine.
“Are you ready for some football????? – We may be, but the NFL itself may not. The league’s season opened Thursday night with a snooze-fest 10-3 Green Bay win over da Bears.”
Not a criticism of either team, but we’re are going to be in for a lot of poor play as many teams refuse to play their starters much if at all in preseason fearing injury. Stands to reason that the Week 1 games will be poorly played. Just wait until the league actually shortens the preseason followed by lengthening the regular season. Every team will need like 4 QB’s to be able to get to the end of that death march.
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