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Calls grow in Germany for expulsion of disputed US envoy
AFP ^ | June 5, 2018 | Hui Min NEO

Posted on 06/05/2018 11:54:07 AM PDT by familyop

Edited on 06/05/2018 4:22:13 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

BERLIN (AFP) - Leading German politicianson Tuesday called for the US ambassador to be expelled, after the staunch ally of Donald Trump was accused of meddling in domestic politics and aggravating already tense ties.

Richard Grenell had taken up his diplomatic posting in Berlin on May 8, and immediately irked Germany when he tweeted on the same day that German companies should stop doing business with Iran as Trump quit the nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic.


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To: rigelkentaurus

The ambassador’s mistake was saying out loud what his inclinations are. The “diplomatic” way is to use subterfuge.


21 posted on 06/05/2018 12:34:09 PM PDT by Chaguito
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To: familyop

Grennel is there because Trump wants him there. If Grennel says something Trump doesn’t like he can pull him.

Until then, Merkel can go spit.


22 posted on 06/05/2018 12:34:47 PM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
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To: familyop

But it’s ok if Obama’s ambassador interfered with Germany.......


23 posted on 06/05/2018 12:36:17 PM PDT by Lockbox
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To: The Toll

At the least abandon the Visa requirement for Poland !


24 posted on 06/05/2018 12:37:04 PM PDT by aumrl (let's keep it real Conservatives)
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To: familyop

Bring our people home, all of them! I am sick and tired of Europeans constantly meddling in this country with constant unrelenting criticism of everything we do. They are NO friends of ours and it is long overdue that we acknowledge their animosity and act on it.


25 posted on 06/05/2018 12:43:21 PM PDT by The Deplorable Miss Lemon (If illegals are here to do the jobs Americans won't do why are so many illegals on welfare?)
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To: FLT-bird

>> it’s not for foreigners to tell us who our ambassador will or should be. <<

You’re correct to the extent that they are able to require whom it “will or should” be.

But they may always reject a proposed Ambassador, and they may always expel one whom they don’t like.

(PS: We always may do the same. It’s basic International Law 101.)


26 posted on 06/05/2018 12:55:05 PM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: familyop

Remind me about what Germany did to stop the Hamburg 9/11 cell and Nigergate again and then talk to me about meddling, Schulz.


27 posted on 06/05/2018 1:17:46 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: BBell

The POS Europeans have business dealings with every United States enemy.


28 posted on 06/05/2018 1:19:55 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: familyop
YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF HOW...

Go suck on it, Angela!

29 posted on 06/05/2018 1:32:59 PM PDT by montag813
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To: BBell; BeauBo
"... it can’t be proven but a lot of European politicians have taken money from the Iranians..."

Now that's an angle I would never have considered. But it makes perfect sense.

Now we can understand the curious circumstances of 'bam's surrender of the assets during the embassy crises, and the way those assets were transferred. Or was it rumor, the reports of skids stacked with greenbacks flown to Iran?

I would think the original assets would have been investments of various sorts- stocks, bonds and the like. Liquidating such investments would have entailed extensive documentation had the Iranians done it after the transfer. Delivery in the form of fungible greenbacks was far more convenient for the Mullahs, and provided a once-in-a-lifetime business opportunity to anyone close enough to get in on it.

To some degree that transfer was a government-backed sale. I wonder how much the exchange of cash for long-term assets cost the Iranians? How much did it cost us? Who made the exchange? Who acquired possession of the original investments in the trade? I'm wondering who kerry and 'bam were working for when they arranged our humiliation-- the Iranians or the brokers?

This needs looking into.

30 posted on 06/05/2018 2:03:38 PM PDT by tsomer ((Hell, I really don't know.))
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To: BBell; BeauBo
"... it can’t be proven but a lot of European politicians have taken money from the Iranians..."

Now that's an angle I would never have considered. But it makes perfect sense.

Now we can understand the curious circumstances of 'bam's surrender of the assets during the embassy crises, and the way those assets were transferred. Or was it rumor, the reports of skids stacked with greenbacks flown to Iran?

I would think the original assets would have been investments of various sorts- stocks, bonds and the like. Liquidating such investments would have entailed extensive documentation had the Iranians done it after the transfer. Delivery in the form of fungible greenbacks was far more convenient for the Mullahs, and provided a once-in-a-lifetime business opportunity to anyone close enough to get in on it.

To some degree that transfer was a government-backed sale. I wonder how much the exchange of cash for long-term assets cost the Iranians? How much did it cost us? Who made the exchange? Who acquired possession of the original investments in the trade? I'm wondering who kerry and 'bam were working for when they arranged our humiliation-- the Iranians or the brokers?

This needs looking into.

31 posted on 06/05/2018 2:03:52 PM PDT by tsomer ((Hell, I really don't know.))
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To: familyop

I don’t believe it. Nobody has mentioned NAZIS and Hitler yet. I’ll give it a few minutes.


32 posted on 06/05/2018 2:04:28 PM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: tsomer
If you believe H.J.Ansari Zarif. Just allegations so far.
33 posted on 06/05/2018 2:36:28 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: Chaguito

LOL!
Indeed, that is the diplomatic way. Kill your enemy with poisoned food at a banquet in his honor instead of telling the world you want him dead.


34 posted on 06/05/2018 3:14:48 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (This country & world is living on borrowed time (Luke 17:26-27))
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To: dljordan
"I don’t believe it. Nobody has mentioned NAZIS and Hitler yet. I’ll give it a few minutes."

There's no need, when the currently prevailing political faction under Merkel manifests those sentiments. It's already obvious to all.


35 posted on 06/05/2018 8:05:23 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: BBell
"As of yet it can’t be proven but a lot of European politicians have taken money from the Iranians."

It's been proven. Some nations only pretend to change when try to fool the U.S.A. and northwestern Europe.

Germany and EU partners scramble to save Iran deal
TheLocal.de ^ | 21 May 2018 14:54 CEST+02:00
"Germany is one of Iran’s most important EU trade partners, according to a report in German online news site ZDF,..."

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LEBANON: D'ALEMA, ITALY HAS THE RIGHT TO TAKE PART IN 5+1 ON I
"Massimo D'Alema in an interview to 'Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung' asks a place near to the five permanent members of the UN Security Council. "We are Iran's most important commercial partners with Germany and we are pledged in Lebanon with Hezbollah. So we have the right to be included in the negotiation with Iran."
[...]


36 posted on 06/05/2018 8:40:26 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: The Toll

Yes. Poland might be a good idea.


37 posted on 06/05/2018 8:41:25 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: BBell

...when trying to fool the U.S.A. and northwestern Europe. [Little typo error on my part.]


38 posted on 06/05/2018 8:43:52 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: familyop

39 posted on 06/05/2018 8:45:59 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Hawthorn

Sure they may. And we may refuse to appoint another and therefore they may not be able to get any business done with us. We may also expel theirs if they expel ours.


40 posted on 06/06/2018 2:37:27 AM PDT by FLT-bird (..)
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