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2019-06-14 Europe
Trump's troop talk again rattles Germany's security assumptions
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Posted by trailing wife 2019-06-14 00:50|| || Front Page|| [4 views ]  Top

#1 We did such a fantastic job of protecting Germany that they don't understand why they need to be protected. They literally don't get why armies are necessary. They feel morally superior because their government doesn't pay for bombs. They'd prefer to spend the money on a welfare state while ruthlessly shitting all over the USA for protecting them.

"If any Western European government would follow these ideas of Washington, they would be kicked out of office by their own population," he predicted. "There is no feeling among Western Europeans that there is a military, economic or political threat by the Russian Federation, which would justify the behavior of President Trump in Brussels."

-- Willy Wimmer, Germany’s former State Secretary for Defense

https://www.rt.com/news/432883-trump-nato-wimmer-interview/
Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-06-14 03:11||   2019-06-14 03:11|| Front Page Top

#2 If Trump continues pushing Europeans, it would bring an end to NATO – Wimmer

Yeah, so?
Posted by SteveS 2019-06-14 05:58||   2019-06-14 05:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Okay.
Posted by SR-71 2019-06-14 06:27||   2019-06-14 06:27|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm fine with that. It's mission ended when the wall came down. Everything since then has been nothing but entangling us in other people's failures and local self serving Geo-political games.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-06-14 07:34||   2019-06-14 07:34|| Front Page Top

#5 NATO should have thrown a victory party after the wall came down and then disbanded.

Pull the troops out of Germany, leave some in Poland and fuck Western Europe. They are desperate to commit social suicide so let 'em.
Posted by DarthVader 2019-06-14 09:15||   2019-06-14 09:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Pull the troops out of Germany and move them to New Mexico and Arizona.
Posted by AlanC 2019-06-14 11:13||   2019-06-14 11:13|| Front Page Top

#7 ...declare the first mile of unincorporated land to be a military zone and post it.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-06-14 11:26||   2019-06-14 11:26|| Front Page Top

#8 Yeah, in Spanish, African and French.
Posted by Skidmark 2019-06-14 15:16||   2019-06-14 15:16|| Front Page Top

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