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Time for Europe to fill US vacuum, says ex-Danish PM [Helle Thorning-Schmidt]
EU Observer ^ | 06/11/2018 16:43 | Eric Maurice

Posted on 06/11/2018 10:32:30 PM PDT by Olog-hai

“Keep calm and carry on.” In the wake of a disastrous G7 summit where US president Donald Trump all but broke off the Western alliance, the EU should stay cool and prepare to take over global leadership.

That is the message on Monday (11 June) by a former member of the EU leaders club, Helle Thorning-Schmidt.

“The US is leaving a vacuum. And who should step in? For me, it is completely obvious, it is Europe’s time to step in,” the former Danish prime minister said at an event in Brussels. “That’s where our new next opportunity is,” she said, describing Trump’s course as a “most massive wake-up call.”

Thorning-Schmidt, who was presenting a report on “What Europe can do to regain initiative”, insisted that the EU should have a “bigger engagement in the Middle East”, and recommit to the Paris climate agreement and the Iran nuclear deal.

She also argued that the EU should take “the leadership — that we would get from nowhere else — in regulating the information society.” …

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This from the “Selfie PM” as the press called her when she was in love with the camera when Obama was around. Another power-hungry social democrat. And what vacuum?

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1 posted on 06/11/2018 10:32:30 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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These Euro-trash dodos are really quite ignorant.


2 posted on 06/11/2018 10:34:26 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: Olog-hai

She’s out of her what little is left of her mind. ;^)


3 posted on 06/11/2018 10:34:44 PM PDT by nopardons
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LOL!


4 posted on 06/11/2018 10:34:45 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
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“The US is leaving a vacuum. And who should step in? For me, it is completely obvious, it is Europe’s time to step in,”

"That would cost money. We barely allocate money for NATO."

"Oh, well, nevermind".

5 posted on 06/11/2018 10:35:59 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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For me, it is completely obvious, it is Europe’s time to step in

It takes MONEY to do that. Where will they get the money now that the US piggy bank has closed up shop? They don't even pay for their own protection! (NATO)

6 posted on 06/11/2018 10:36:07 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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Ahh, yes! I remember her. The Great Dane, acting like a flirty schoolgirl during Mandella’s memorial.
She has the right attitude here, though.
The rules of the game have been changed, and won’t be going back to the old ways anytime soon.


7 posted on 06/11/2018 10:36:55 PM PDT by lee martell
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It;s not a vacuum. It’s what Europe should have been doing for the last 70+ years - taking care of itself!


8 posted on 06/11/2018 10:37:30 PM PDT by llevrok (Established 1950.)
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“The US is leaving a vacuum. And who should step in? For me, it is completely obvious, it is Europe’s time to step in,” the former Danish prime minister said at an event in Brussels. “

Knock yourself out.

9 posted on 06/11/2018 10:37:48 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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Well step right up and put your big girl panties on, Euoroweenies.

‘Bout time you bought your own lunch.


10 posted on 06/11/2018 10:37:52 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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That’s something they can’t be trusted to do, what with being overrun by all those socialists. We ought to have rid them of the socialists at least, if we had not been overrun with them ourselves.


11 posted on 06/11/2018 10:43:22 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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Yeah Europe...go ahead, take the lead on climate change. Send billions to $hitholes so that newer and better presidential palaces can be built. By all means, go bazonkazoids


12 posted on 06/11/2018 10:44:32 PM PDT by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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Europe can start by paying its own way for the defense of Europe.


13 posted on 06/11/2018 10:46:23 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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vacuum = empty wallet


14 posted on 06/11/2018 10:47:53 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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Never give them what they want most. Especially since they are showing their true face now.

Note that they never complained when Obama was literally leaving a power vacuum.


15 posted on 06/11/2018 10:49:11 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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AND they'll have to rule by committee.

That should tear them apart.

16 posted on 06/11/2018 10:52:52 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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“the EU should stay cool and prepare to take over global leadership.”

If these fakers are going to “replace” the USA they can start by tripling defence spending.


17 posted on 06/11/2018 11:01:17 PM PDT by Reverend Wright (I am a Putin bot and I approve this message.)
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The Danes let their country be run by the Nazis from 1940-1945. They barely put up any fight. They literally owe their freedom to the US, UK and Canada.


18 posted on 06/11/2018 11:01:35 PM PDT by matt1234 (Jan. 20, 2017: the national nightmare ended.)
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“Keep calm and carry on.” In the wake of a disastrous G7 summit where US president Donald Trump all but broke off the Western alliance, the EU should stay cool and prepare to take over global leadership.

Europe has long tried to exercise "global leadership" by leveraging the might of the U.S. economy and military to do its dirty work--against Germany, against Russia, in Vietnam--but they turned on us in a heartbeat when it suited them. Now that the U.S. is asserting its own interests, the EU leaders who have been taking advantage of our generosity are acting like a teenager who's upset that they're now expected to pay for their own gas when they use the car.

19 posted on 06/11/2018 11:05:34 PM PDT by Fedora
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Okay by me. When Europe starts another war I hope POTUS says we’ll sit this one out.


20 posted on 06/11/2018 11:11:29 PM PDT by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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