Trump will understand- being the Reneger-in-Chief.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel walked back her country’s 2014 pledge to spend 2 percent of its GDP on defense to maintain the military strength of the NATO alliance.
Speaking at a panel discussion organized by Ostsee Zeitung local newspaper in the Baltic Sea town of Stralsund, Merkel said: “We said we want to achieve 1.5% by 2024. And that is our common will.”
In 2014, Merkel’s government committed her country's defense budget at a NATO conference in Wales to increase its expenditure to 2% by 2024. Her broken promise has created intense friction between the US and Germany.
US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell told Fox News on Wednesday: “The Wales Pledge was made in 2014 and it gave a 10-year runway to get to 2 percent by 2024.”
Sergio Gor, Deputy Chief of Staff to Senator Rand Paul, told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday: "It’s highly concerning to Congress when German leaders prioritize giving foreign aid instead of meeting their defense spending obligations. Why should the United States taxpayer have to be liable when European nations are doing so little for their own defense? Ambassador Ric Grenell is absolutely right in raising this issue, and Washington is paying close attention to Berlin’s next step.”
https://www.jpost.com/International/...with-US-598646
Trump will understand- being the Reneger-in-Chief.
" First they came for the journalists...
We don't know what happened after that . "
Maria Ressa.
cancel2 2022 (08-16-2019)
Althea (08-16-2019)
The Paris climate and Iranian agreements spring to mind. Do you really think that the Orange Orc is going to get a free pass for those ?
" First they came for the journalists...
We don't know what happened after that . "
Maria Ressa.
cancel2 2022 (08-16-2019)
Althea (08-16-2019), Guno צְבִי (08-16-2019)
OK,, I simply wanted an example as I could not think of anything. I was thinking domestic politics
The Iran agreement withdrawal is a day late and a dollar short in terms of curbing Iranian hegemony,
Although the proxy groups such as Hez are hurting for funds
The Paris accords could not have been more poorly designed with China and India quotas if they tried to
cancel2 2022 (08-16-2019)
Paris is the Chinese Hoax Trump was referring to, they get a free pass till 2030 whilst the West gets hamstrung by carbon credits and bureaucracy. To me the epitome of that farce, was thousands of private jets flying in and out of Orly Airport laden with celebs, potentates and enviro-mentalists.
anatta (08-16-2019), Darth Omar (08-16-2019)
I can't wait to see Merkel gone - although she's has a done a decent job with Germany's Russian relation and keeping US offensive weapons out of Donbass (before Trump) they gotta pay their NATO bill
Genman leadership is bureaucratic dithering on national energy policy. Going nuke free was a mistake
Stretch (08-16-2019)
I trust the krauts to help with the defense of the free world.
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
cancel2 2022 (08-16-2019)
Guno צְבִי (08-16-2019), moon (08-16-2019)
cancel2 2022 (08-16-2019)
Isaiah 6:5
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
anatta (08-16-2019)
anatta (08-16-2019), cancel2 2022 (08-16-2019)
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