Posted on 08/03/2018 1:50:55 AM PDT by granada
In the wake of repeated attacks from U.S. President Donald Trump, Germans appear to be souring on the country’s relationship with America. The majority of Germans now believe Europe can defend itself without the help of the American military, a Forsa survey has found.
As reported by Reuters, only 37 percent of 1,004 Germans surveyed now think the continent needs help from the U.S. to defend its borders. There was little difference between the former eastern and western parts of the country, at 60 and 55 percent respectively. Western Germans have closer historical ties with Washington on account of the division of the country after World War II and during the Cold War.
During his visit to the NATO summit in Brussels earlier this month, Trump repeatedly attacked America’s allies for spending too little on the defense of Europe. The president reserved particular criticism for Germany, which he claimed is now “totally controlled by Russia.”
Trump was focused on the Nord Stream 2 project, an $11 billion expansion of the existing Nord Stream natural gas pipeline funded by the Kremlin-backed Gazprom company and five European nations. The president said this development was “inappropriate.”
“Ultimately, Germany will have almost 70 percent of their country controlled by Russia with natural gas,” he claimed, suggesting this would leave Germany “totally controlled by Russia.”
Around 84 percent of Germans asked about this exchange believed Trump’s stance was “completely absurd.” Ninety-two percent said they thought Trump’s motivation for the attack was most likely linked to his desire to sell more American natural gas to Europe. Two thirds remain in support of the project, which will double Russia’s capacity to deliver natural gas to Germany to almost 250 billion square feet per year. The extended pipeline is expected to become operational by the end of 2019.
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The Newsweek/MSN article also has some blatant lies in it about the NATO meeting No, Trump did not say the Euros agreed to raise their defense spending from 2% to 4%. He was speculating it might happen and was quite clear about that.
This is just MSM attacking Trump and trying to make him look bad or ineffectual. We know better.
Fulda gap redux.
Now that the United States is telling Europe to PAY THEIR DAMN SHARE they've decided to 'defend themselves on the cheap' assuming if they're attacked we'll come in and defend their deadbeat butts.
Works for me... Let the ingrates defend themselves. We should demand Germany pay back 'the World' for all the wars they've inflicted on the rest of us.
Well I would hope so!
“Nothing in the Balkans is worth the dusty bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier” - Bismarck.
Haven’t we seen this movie a couple of times?
Bring the Boys Home!
I think the majority of German military strategists still think mostly about this:
Here are the results of a search on German military readiness. (Pathetic.)
“The majority of Germans now believe Europe can defend itself without the help of the American military, a Forsa survey has found.”
Could? Yes. Will? Not so much.
Of course it’s much easier to say that now that there are other countries between them and Russia.
Pretty sure the NYC Police have more tanks than Germany.
The Germans charge us for having troops there, the Poles said they’d host us for free.
Seems an easy decision, let’s tell the Germans “ Good luck, but bye”
Is the dateline 1937?
In Paris and then in London, people will be saying, “Europa braucht keinen Schutz der USA.”
The intellectual deterioration resulting from the meeting of the Slavs from the east meeting the Africans from the south has already destroyed the concept of Germany
Germans know Russia scare is a scaremongering tactic, NATO establishment’s excuse. They don’t want to pay their money for a lie.
let’s move everything to poland
The US needs protection from Europw.
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