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2019-08-10 Europe
Spend more on defense or we move troops to Poland, U.S. envoy tells Germany
[Jpost] An envoy of U.S. President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
suggested on Friday that Chancellor Angela Merkel
...chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom. Now they make faces at her for inundating the country with Moslem colonists...
's unwillingness to boost defense spending might give the United States no choice but to move American troops stationed in Germany to Poland.

The comments by Richard Grenell, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, signal Trump's impatience with Merkel's failure to raise defense spending to 2% of economic output as mandated by the NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
military alliance.

"It is offensive to assume that the U.S. taxpayers continue to pay for more than 50,000 Americans in Germany but the Germans get to spend their (budget) surplus on domestic programs," Grenell told the dpa news agency.

Germany's fiscal plans foresee the defense budget of NATO's second-largest member rising to 1.37% of output next year before falling to 1.24% in 2023.

Eastern Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an countries like Poland and Latvia, fearful of Russia after it annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, have raised their military spending to the 2% target, drawing praise from Trump who wants Germany to do the same.

U.S. complaints about Germany's defense spending pre-date Trump but relations with the United States have deteriorated since he became president.

The two allies do not see eye-to-eye on a range of issues, including Iran, trade tariffs and the NordStream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany.

Trump said in June he would deploy 1,000 U.S. troops from Germany to Poland, which sees the measure as deterrence against possible aggression from Russia.

Georgette Mosbacher, U.S. ambassador to Poland, has made a similar criticism of Germany's reluctance to commit more financial resources to NATO.

"Poland meets its 2% of GDP spending obligation towards NATO. Germany does not. We would welcome American troops in Germany to come to Poland," she wrote on Twitter on Thursday.

The United States has more than 33,000 soldiers in Germany and an additional 17,000 U.S. civilian employees to support them. It is believed the United States also has nuclear warheads in Germany.

"President Trump is right and Georgette Mosbacher is right," Grenell told dpa. "Multiple presidents have asked Europe's largest economy to pay for its own defense. This request has been made over many years and by many presidents."

Grenell added that the United States must react if Germany continues to ignore Trump's demand to boost defense spending.

Trump travels to La Belle France this month for the G7 summit where Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
will be a major topic. Trump will also visit Poland and Denmark.

Grenell earlier this month criticized Germany for showing reluctance to join a planned U.S. naval mission in the Strait of Hormuz, close to Iran.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-08-10 01:09|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ]  Top

#1 What does Germany do, again, for NATO?
Anything?
Bueller?
Posted by Lex 2019-08-10 02:15||   2019-08-10 02:15|| Front Page Top

#2 2% or 20% tariffs.
Posted by Butch Thating8912 2019-08-10 05:31||   2019-08-10 05:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Why do I get the feeling its going to be the Poles again marching into German territory to eject the Islamic Menace cause they can't do it themselves?
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-08-10 07:02||   2019-08-10 07:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Perhaps the USA should have adopted the Morganthau Plan for Germany following World War II.
Posted by Chereting Pelosi1889 2019-08-10 09:35||   2019-08-10 09:35|| Front Page Top

#5 shiess or get off the pot
Posted by Mercutio 2019-08-10 10:16||   2019-08-10 10:16|| Front Page Top

#6 It should be enough to move Grenell to Poland.
Posted by European Conservative 2019-08-10 13:12||   2019-08-10 13:12|| Front Page Top

#7 "Georgette Mosbacher, U.S. ambassador to Poland, has made a similar criticism of Germany's reluctance to commit more financial resources to NATO.

"Poland meets its 2% of GDP spending obligation towards NATO. Germany does not. We would welcome American troops in Germany to come to Poland," she wrote on Twitter on Thursday."

US ambassadors have become dim bulbs. There are no "2% spending obligations to NATO". The 2% is a commitment to spend 2% of the national GDP on NATIONAL defense. "Defense" can mean anything you want it to mean btw.

And Grenell's "threat" is empty. Maybe a few thousand troops will be moved to Poland but the U.S. will not give up Ramstein, Landstuhl or Grafenwöhr. Just ask the Pentagon (as Mr Grenell should have done).

Btw Germany subsidizes U.S. presence with 600 million euros per year.
Posted by European Conservative 2019-08-10 13:17||   2019-08-10 13:17|| Front Page Top

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