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Merkel lumps U.S. in with China, Russia as “global rivals”
Hotair.com ^ | May 16, 2019 | JAZZ SHAW

Posted on 05/16/2019 8:40:13 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 05/16/2019 8:40:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

So what?


2 posted on 05/16/2019 8:40:48 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Kaslin

The purpose of the EU was to scr** everyone they could.


3 posted on 05/16/2019 8:43:44 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Steely Tom

The headline is a true statement, IMHO.


4 posted on 05/16/2019 8:44:37 AM PDT by ptsal
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To: Kaslin

Going back to the 1930s, it’s hard to really know what Hitler was thinking as a realistic goal/worldview. One interpretation that I have heard was:

Germany controls Europe.
Britain controls a colonial empire (plenty of evidence says that Hitler did not see the UK as a natural enemy; many in the UK agreed. Churchill did not.
USA controls western hemisphere
Japan controls Asia

Balance is maintained between the 4 great powers and everyone is happy. Of course, it didn’t work out that way.

Merkel’s vision is different but I’m not sure it’s better.


5 posted on 05/16/2019 8:47:58 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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Some of our European allies aren’t acting very much like allies these days.

Any reason why they should?

6 posted on 05/16/2019 8:49:47 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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Going back to the 1930s, it’s hard to really know what Hitler was thinking as a realistic goal/worldview.

Uhh, it was all laid out in "Mein Kampf"

7 posted on 05/16/2019 8:49:54 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Germany hasn’t been an ally in decades.


8 posted on 05/16/2019 8:49:59 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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“So what?”

exactly. now that Germany has decommissioned all of their nuclear power plants and will have decommissioned all of their fossil fuel power plants in the near future, they’ll be viewing Venezuela and the like as “rivals” instead of the U.S. and China ...


9 posted on 05/16/2019 8:50:14 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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Bet she won’t team up with Japan for this purpose this time.


10 posted on 05/16/2019 8:50:29 AM PDT by NorseViking
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Deutschland Deutschland über Alles.....


11 posted on 05/16/2019 8:50:49 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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12 posted on 05/16/2019 8:52:11 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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exactly. now that Germany has decommissioned all of their nuclear power plants and will have decommissioned all of their fossil fuel power plants in the near future, they’ll be viewing Venezuela and the like as “rivals” instead of the U.S. and China ...


Nordstream2 is coming on line. Plenty more Russian gas where that came from. No need for nukes or a German defense budget given that.


13 posted on 05/16/2019 8:52:59 AM PDT by lodi90
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14 posted on 05/16/2019 8:53:03 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

That’s not what Adolf was thinking at all. “Heute Deutschland, morgen die ganze Welt” was always his goal.


15 posted on 05/16/2019 9:02:37 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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Wanna try it again?


16 posted on 05/16/2019 9:03:36 AM PDT by cll (Serviam!)
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To: ptsal
The headline is a true statement, IMHO.

I guess so. Whatever. What does she want us to be, her mommy?

17 posted on 05/16/2019 9:04:20 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: lodi90

That’s still their goal, though.

Nord Stream 2 has been compared to a modern Molotov-Ribbentrop. Whenever Germany and Russia work together, it’s always about war plans.


18 posted on 05/16/2019 9:04:27 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: Steely Tom
She misses her back rubs...


19 posted on 05/16/2019 9:05:57 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Plenty of reasons. But they were betraying us long before the Obama years.


20 posted on 05/16/2019 9:06:05 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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