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2020-09-17 Europe

Foreign-policy sleepwalking: Wake up to Germany no longer being such a good ally

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-09-17 09:22|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Well since the wall came down and the Soviet Union fell, they haven't really had any reason to align themselves completely with the US. We were asking why the hell we were still over there and NATO existed in '93 when I was in the military. I bet a lot of Germans felt the same.

Posted by DarthVader 2020-09-17 14:38|| 2020-09-17 14:38|| Front Page Top

#2 There is another country the USA also needs to decouple from.

Posted by Thong Bumble1096 2020-09-17 14:47|| 2020-09-17 14:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Aside from good beer, what does Germany provide us that we can't more easily obtain through our alliance partners Poland and Romania?

Posted by Omavick Sproing6629 2020-09-17 15:00|| 2020-09-17 15:00|| Front Page Top

#4 US should have helped establish a Neutral East European alliance to act as a buffer between paranoid Russians and Western Europe. Then walked away.

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-09-17 15:53|| 2020-09-17 15:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Former East European nations are better allies because being under the bears paw is still fresh in their memories. Plus, they are first inline if there is a Russian Empire re-incarnation.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2020-09-17 17:33|| 2020-09-17 17:33|| Front Page Top

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