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2023-03-06 Europe

German Chancellor flies to DC for 1 hour private meeting with Biden then returns home

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Posted by Slenter Panda4300 2023-03-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 So, Germany won't support a 2024 run?

Posted by Skidmark 2023-03-06 04:01|| 2023-03-06 04:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Selecting the next pipeline to blow up?

Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2023-03-06 04:41|| 2023-03-06 04:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Strudel delivery.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-03-06 09:25|| 2023-03-06 09:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Placed mirror under Joe's nose. Just checking

Posted by Spaish Platypus1029 2023-03-06 10:52|| 2023-03-06 10:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Probably discussed the need to reduce carbon emissions to fight global warming.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2023-03-06 11:01|| 2023-03-06 11:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Some things must never be written down or kept in any format. Remember the Clinton visit to AG Loretta Lynch on her FBI plane, and the hokey explanations?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-03-06 12:05|| 2023-03-06 12:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Had to schedule the meeting very close to the hour, aka 'window of opportunity', when Joe was lucid enough to pass as a semi-functional human being.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-03-06 13:45|| 2023-03-06 13:45|| Front Page Top

#8 When Olaf flew over the ocean
To show his undying devotion
To Joe, did he know,
As they met in the snow,
That they both would award a promotion?

Posted by Elmavise Snore3792 2023-03-06 16:25|| 2023-03-06 16:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Did Joe give Olaf a coin? Did Olaf give Joe a coin? What, not trusting comms there, fellas?

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-03-06 18:01|| 2023-03-06 18:01|| Front Page Top

#10 What are they hiding from who?
They evidently assume that their coms are compromised by someone who'll nail them.

Posted by ed in texas 2023-03-06 18:05|| 2023-03-06 18:05|| Front Page Top

#11 Evidently Olaf and Anna-whatever Baerbock are not getting along. But, sh!t, how much did all that cost? At least Nancy Pelosi hit the Class Six at Bolling to make her trip worthwhile.

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-03-06 18:08|| 2023-03-06 18:08|| Front Page Top

#12 Curious, indeed. Notice how the stage is set for a "private 1 hour meeting... No aides were present". Nobody else here, just us two Heads of State meeting. Privately.

Leaving aside the question of whether Biden is a senile old man or clever actor, why would someone need to talk to him in person in the age of Zoom calls. Security is a thing, even encrypted video over your own network is going to leave footprints. Or perhaps the real conversation was between Scholz and a 3rd Party. (Barak, is that you?)

Perhaps something physical was exchanged along with the diplomatic niceties. Documents, diagrams, plans, a thumb drive, pallets of cash? Oh to be a surveillance nano-bot on the wall...

Posted by SteveS 2023-03-06 18:43|| 2023-03-06 18:43|| Front Page Top

#13 Definitely strange. But I should think that even if Scholz gave Biden something, then I suspect it would be an actionable item which Biden would relay, one way or another, to someone on his staff to "make it happen".

If there are any other visits of this nature, then Washington, we have a [security] problem.

Interesting that Baerbock is Germany's foreign minister, and she did not accompany the Chancellor. Perhaps another sign of just how bad the blood is between Scholz and Baerbock. Scholz didn't trust/like her enough to bring her along.

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-03-06 21:05|| 2023-03-06 21:05|| Front Page Top

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