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Germany's answer to 'America First' is 'Europe United' [barf]
Deutsche Welle ^ | 06.13.2018 | Ben Knight

Posted on 06/14/2018 10:15:42 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Germany has responded to US President Donald Trump’s egotistic policy of ’America First’ by calling on the European Union to “bundle its strength” and show more courage — continuing the more bellicose German rhetoric that followed the US decision last week to withdraw from a G7 statement.

“Under President Trump, the Atlantic has got wider,” German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Wednesday, standing at a podium emblazoned with the hashtag #EuropeUnited. “Where the US administration overtly calls our values and interests into question, we certainly need to take a more robust stance.”

During the speech, delivered to a room full of young Europeans at the Pulse of Europe event in Berlin, Maas slammed Trump’s willingness to undermine alliances that had developed over decades “in the time it takes to write a tweet.” […]

The EU needed to do more than just “adjust a couple of screws in the Brussels apparatus,” the bloc must “change its own mentality,” Maas said, not least because the times were becoming “radicalized by nationalism, populism and chauvinism.”

“We need more Europe, not less Europe, especially now,” he said.

Echoing his SPD colleagues, Maas also said it was vital to keep the EU’s internal border open and free — even while protecting the external borders. “For much too long we have left Italy and Greece alone with these tasks,” he said. …

(Excerpt) Read more at dw.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Germany
KEYWORDS: europe; europeunited; eussr; fourthreich; g7; germany; maas; obamalegacy; socialmarketeconomy; tds
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To: Olog-hai

Funny......Germany seemed only too eager to widen the Atlantic in 2003 when they thought they could stoke up and harness anti-Americanism to unite Europe against America and under German hegemony. Now it’s suddenly oh so terrible that they’re receiving the payback they so richly deserve.

Never mind the freeloading off of America for 73 years and counting to provide for their national defense......when they won’t even keep their word to spend a piddly little 2% of GDP on Defense. Oh and also never mind that they’re going out of their way to make themselves more dependent on Russian energy all the while. Oh and never mind that the EU tariff on cars is FOUR TIMES what America’s tariff on cars is and they’ve been running a huge surplus as a result.

It’s all Trump who has been showing bad faith - not them.


21 posted on 06/14/2018 10:30:41 AM PDT by FLT-bird (..)
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To: Olog-hai

Look, if the Euro twits get off their asses and start defending themselves then I am all for it. They could start by halting the Muslim invasion.


22 posted on 06/14/2018 10:34:02 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Olog-hai

bookmark


23 posted on 06/14/2018 10:34:05 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: montag813

Not a good idea to give then what they want most.

As others have noted, if pulling out of Germany means a move to Poland, that would make more sense than pulling an Obama move like we did in Iraq.


24 posted on 06/14/2018 10:34:42 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: dfwgator

The 8th AF did one heck of a job.


25 posted on 06/14/2018 10:35:14 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Spok

Well, don’t presume that’s not the idea. By treaty, all member states go by something called the “social market economy”. And the Stockholm Program is a plan to impose a police state on the continent similar to Red China’s police state.


26 posted on 06/14/2018 10:36:25 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: central_va

That was Warsaw.


27 posted on 06/14/2018 10:37:31 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: central_va
Oh great...another majority Muslim nation - with nukes.

Just what the world needs.

28 posted on 06/14/2018 10:38:33 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Idiocracy is Prophecy!)
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To: dfwgator

Could you tell the difference between that and Berlin in spg ‘45?


29 posted on 06/14/2018 10:39:12 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Olog-hai

“Germany’s answer to ‘America First’ is ‘Europe United’”

Oooooooh boy...


30 posted on 06/14/2018 10:39:39 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Olog-hai

Germany Uber alles.


31 posted on 06/14/2018 10:40:52 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: central_va

Berlin was much better off than Warsaw, and at least they got The Marshall Plan out of it.


32 posted on 06/14/2018 10:41:30 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: central_va

The “Muslim invasion” is a rule-by-crisis tactic, just like the 2008 financial crisis (caused in a great deal by the European Central Bank raising interest rates) that allowed them to bully other EU nations economically. As soon as the Eurocrats get the people to accept their breaking the final “taboo” of police-state imperialism (which they falsely call “federalism”), that problem will clear up by surprise. If they want the USA out so badly, then it’s a bad idea to give them that.


33 posted on 06/14/2018 10:42:42 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: dfwgator

They also got an epidemic of mass rape from the Red Army.


34 posted on 06/14/2018 10:44:13 AM PDT by FLT-bird (..)
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To: FLT-bird
They also got an epidemic of mass rape from the Red Army.

Paybacks are a bitch.

35 posted on 06/14/2018 10:44:50 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Funny, if you look at what globalism did to Detroit it looks the same as Warsaw in 1945.


36 posted on 06/14/2018 10:45:03 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: central_va

37 posted on 06/14/2018 10:46:24 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

That’s a powerful graphic.


38 posted on 06/14/2018 10:49:05 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: Olog-hai
As others have noted, if pulling out of Germany means a move to Poland, that would make more sense than pulling an Obama move like we did in Iraq.

Poland makes damn good sense, as well as a naval base at Gdansk to defend Eastern (Christian) Europe against the future Western Islamic Republics.

39 posted on 06/14/2018 10:50:44 AM PDT by montag813
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To: Olog-hai

Didn’t Germany already try to take over Europe and fail?


40 posted on 06/14/2018 10:52:54 AM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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