Next week on Thursday, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is scheduled to travel to Washington DC and meet with President Donald Trump in the White House. Considering the importance of Germany to the EU economy and subsequent trade relationship with the U.S, this meeting with Merz will likely be the most important discussion toward a possible U.S-E.U. trade agreement.
Germany is the largest economy within the EU and the core industrial base of the European Union. The number one issue for the German people is their economic status: everything else circles around this priority.
Having spent time in Hamburg, Bremen, Dresden and Frankfurt, it is very clear to me the German people are very focused on work and their vocations. Germans overall, take their economic standing very personally and seriously.
Inasmuch as Merz may have to represent the interests of the larger EU in his approach, he will undoubtedly be focused on what is in Germany’s best interest, with all else second.
For President Trump this specific German interest creates a unique facet of leverage within the larger EU trade discussion. Because the German economy is so vital, whatever terms Germany decides are the core terms the EU will manifest in their trade and tariff negotiations.
I predict we will hear a talking point from Merz, in generally German snark, something akin to a proposal for a zero-tariff base on the import and export of heavy industrial goods (machinery) for both Germany and the USA. I say in general German snark because passive-aggressive Chancellor Merz knows the U.S. is currently not in a position to sell Germany heavy industrial goods, and that’s entirely what President Trump is trying to recreate with the trade/tariff policy.
WASHINGTON DC – German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will travel to Washington next week to meet United States President Donald Trump for the first time since taking office earlier this month.
The leaders will meet in the White House on Thursday and are expected to discuss the war in Ukraine, the Middle East and trade policy, German government spokesperson Stefan Kornelius said in an emailed statement.
Merz will travel to the U.S. capital a day ahead of the meeting, according to broadcaster n-tv. The meeting will be followed by a lunch and a press conference, according to the report. (read more)
Recently Merz has also walked further forward in his support for Ukraine, including his willingness to provide missiles and approve their use for strikes into the Russian mainland. On this issue Merz is in a tenuous place domestically. The German people care more about their economic status than they do supporting Ukraine as a proxy war against the Russian Federation.
In addition to the trade and Ukraine issues, Chancellor Merz is also in conflict with the Trump administration as it pertains to cultural and political expressions of free speech in Germany.
The oppressive German system of politics has been ramping up a more oppressive footing toward the nationalistic voices inside the country. The opposition (AfD) who does not support the EU status vociferously enough, is now a target of the German political machine.
Both Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have publicly called out the German government for oppressive positions against their own citizens. Merz has pushed back against Rubio and Vance by telling them to stay out of German politics.
This will be an interesting meeting to watch closely next week.
And it is very clear to me, Germans, like the rest of Europe are among the most deceived peoples on Earth
Next to jail inmates and headhunter tribes
They voted Socialist (Marxist) straight up since WW2 when the most famous Socialist (HITLER) killed a lot of Europe
And the arrogant, humanist, selfishness of their society will take them to another war soon
They are out of luck – period
And…dang! Been in the periphery of headhunter country on Borneo.
They seem more savvy.
Been in Dayak country too, and yes they certainly don’t seem to carry the lemming gene like most modern Germans do.
The war fighter gene in Europe was wiped out because of the two world wars. Almost seems like it was planed that way.
We can expect nothing from the enemies of the people. The man is a major player in the globalism that the MAGA movement rejects.
Who can still be fooled?
Merz, let’s not forget, has long represented the interests of some of the world’s most powerful corporate and financial elites, notably as BlackRock’s key representative in Germany between 2016 and 2020. Indeed, if
nothing good can be expected from such a major player in globalism, who denies the will of the people for the benefit of the international finance that MAGA is fighting against.
If Merz is elected, Germany will become the first country to be led by a former BlackRock official. But his links with elite institutions go back much further: for over two decades, even before joining BlackRock, he embodied the revolving door between politics, business and finance.
After the 2002 federal elections, Angela Merkel, then leader of the CDU, was given the chairmanship of the parliamentary group, while Merz was appointed her deputy. Their relationship, however, was far from serene, and Merz resigned only two years later, gradually withdrawing from politics until he left parliament in 2009. Yet he was knocking on gold’s door even before he left. In 2004, he was hired as a senior advisor by the international law and lobbying firm Mayer Brown, an industry heavyweight with annual sales in the billions.
These people are detrimental to prosperity and peace in the world.
You raise Hitler’s actions Little known, or hidden? Hitler’s financing.
…….« From World War I to the Present: Dollar denominated debt has been the driving force behind all US led wars.Wall Street creditors are the main actors.
They were firmly behind Nazi Germany. They financed Operation Barbarossa and the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.
“On January 4th, 1932, a meeting was held between British financier Montagu Norman (Governor of the Bank of England), Adolf Hitler and Franz Von Papen (who became Chancellor a few months later in May 1932) At this meeting, an agreement on the financing of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP or Nazi Party) was reached.
This meeting was also attended by US policy-makers and the Dulles brothers, something which their biographers do not like to mention.
A year later, on January 14th, 1933, another meeting was held between Adolph Hitler, Germany’s Financier Baron Kurt von Schroeder, Chancellor Franz von Papen and Hitler’s Economic Advisor Wilhelm Keppler took place, where Hitler’s program was fully approved.” (Y. Rubtsov, text below)
Upon the accession of Adolph Hitler as Chancellor in March 1933, a massive privatization program was initiated which bears the finger-prints of Wall Street.
Dr. Hjalmar Schacht –re-appointed in March 1933 by Adolph Hitler to the position of President of The Reichsbank— was invited to the White House (May 1933) by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
“After his meeting with the U.S. President and the big bankers on Wall Street, America allocated Germany new loans totalling $1 billion” [equivalent to $23.7 billion in 2023, PPP estimate] (Y. Rubtsov, op cit)
https://www.globalresearch.ca/history-of-world-war-ii-nazi-germany-was-financed-by-the-federal-reserve-and-the-bank-of-england/5530318
And read also : https://bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/wall_street/chapter_07.htm
and : https://www.gabyweber.com › dwnld › artikel › eichmann › ingles › secret_pact_standard_oil.pdf
Forget the link: “https://www.gabyweber.com, dwnld, artikel, eichmann, …” instead open this more complete one on Standard Oil (now Exxon):
https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-eQ-GW5bGFH1vHYJH/The%20Treason%20Of%20Rockefeller%20Standard%20Oil%20(Exxon)%20During%20World%20War%20II_djvu.txt
I wonder if Barbarossa’s, ultimately disastrous (See: Stalingrad), attempted push southwards for the Chechnian oilfields didn’t have more than a little to do with this, rather than merely being an attempt to secure warfighting stocks for the Wehrmacht…
…- As I understand it had they taken the Baku oilfields, the intention was to push on further south and occupy the Iranian oilfields as well.
Bottom line is their Godlessness which manifests to their pride, selfishness, etc..
He didn’t kill Europe. Britain and France killed them after WWI. Their response in reclaiming their ancestral lands, which had been stripped from them, was predictable and inevitable.
Not clear to me. Then again I lived there, served with their soldiers had long political discussions with them and am related to more than a few of them. You read the news I take it.
Why is POMPEO in Odessa, today? – Yes, that anti-Trump Pompeo.
https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1928845028446621923
And WHY did Ukraine attack a Russian Military Installation near North Korea today?
Major escalation in the works.
The globalists decided long ago that now is the time for the dragon to take the global throne. Everything in the last 30 years has been aligned to make China this centuries lone global.power. Everything single aspect explains this. This is the galactic view. It explains everything. War with Russia is the final piece. It would cripple the West and allow the dragon to slide right to the top.
They did not figure in the arrival of President Trump.
That’s for,sure!
Take your meds.
That’s thousands of miles from Ukraine. How did they accomplish that?
This sounds like fake news.
“Operation Spiderweb” – It’s been in the works for the past 1.5 years. So, I figure Pompeo carried the NATO codes that triggered the special operation.
From what I’m reading, Trump approved the massive drone attacks from within Russia that destroyed Russian military aircraft and more. This development occurred shortly after Pompeo arrived in Odessa.
My only question: Was Trump aware of and approve of this operation? It’s not his style. It will only prolong the conflict.
Putin pissed on Trumps sneakers over the ceasefire. Now he needs a new airforce…and navy … the army could use same repair as well. FAFO with PDJT is a very bad idea.
Guess not.
Also terrorist attack blowing up a bridge that fell on civilian train in Russia.
Ukraine has targeted civillians a lot in this war, and we in the U.S. don’t hear about it. We also didn’t hear about the eight years of Ukraine shelling civillian areas of the Donbas region for eight years before the war started.
Proof?
Are you implying (by your response) that western main stream media reporting on the Ukraine/Russia conflict, it’s provocateurs, it’s beneficiaries, even it’s history, has been accurate?
Common knowledge among those who pay attention.
That is one of the reasons for the Russian action.
Protecting ethnic Russians.
Ukrainian NAZIS have become a world leaders in terrorism.
Carbombs, truckbombs, cafe bombs, mass shootings in malls,, shelling civilians, droning civilian markets, even a suicide bombing attack a day or two ago. My level of sympathy for Ukraine is now hovering at around zero.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/ukraine-doubles-down-terrorist-attacks-sabotaging-two-railway/
The supply of proof is endless for those who are serious about discovering the truth…
Examples – recent, with Reuters saying they witnessed the carnage:
https://www.reuters.com/world/eight-killed-after-ukraine-shells-russian-controlled-city-donetsk-mayor-2024-01-21/
Pre-2022 shelling and deaths in the cities of the Donbass region:
https://www.crisisgroup.org/content/conflict-ukraines-donbas-visual-explainer
It has also included organ harvesting by Ukrainians of both civilian and military members injured in the war (one of the more evil underbellies of many wars).
Earlier this year, Ukraine’s parliament finally outlawed the ghoulish practice – although the evil care not for laws.
Daniela Pulido | Facultad de Derecho PUCP, PE
JANUARY 10, 2025 07:28:51 PM
The Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) passed legislation on Thursday prohibiting organ harvesting from military and civilian casualties of Russia’s invasion. The measure, Law No. 9558 “On Amendments to Certain Laws of Ukraine on Improving the Organization of Medical Care Using Transplantation,” received broad support, with 254 of 313 lawmakers voting in favor.
Interesting not only in that they felt the need to pass the law, but that over 50 members voted AGAINST it…
UN OHCHR:
Accountability for killings in Ukraine from January 2014 to May 2016:
https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Countries/UA/OHCHRThematicReportUkraineJan2014-May2016_EN.pdf
EU OSCE:
Civilian casualties in eastern Ukraine 2016:
https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/a/a/342121.pdf
Civilian casualties in the conflict-affected regions of eastern Ukraine – 1 January 2017 until 15 September 2020:
https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/f/b/469734.pdf
I did JoAnn. I have followed this war for a decade.
Can you tell what the incidence was please?
The only one I have seen was in Vladivostok a few days ago, which could be viewed as near NK. That started out as a car bomb but turned into a car transporting camping gas bottles unsafely. No-one injured.
It’s well known that North Korea has been sending troops and equipment to help Russia. So, it could be a small military stopover. Not much damage was done, that I know.
But overnight, major Ukrainian drone attacks from inside Russia itself. Horrific for Putin. Follow @LordBebo.
Because Trump wants peace and the EU is 180 degrees in the anti-Trump direction.
Trump is cutting off their money supply.
As is Lindsey Graham plus assorted RINOs hellbent in their Brutus-like mission to oppose/obstruct President Trump’s agenda.
Yesterday this effete warmonger warned China to not purchase Russian oil or else be subjected to a 500% tariff.
I didn’t realize that President Trump had appointed this off the reservation, dangerous absurdity as his spokesperson. President Trump has use of all his sharp faculties so no doubt won’t be scratching his head, like the brain dead Biden, wondering when he gave Miss Lindsey permission to speak on his behalf.
Likewise, Lindsey intimated that the Senate would be taking a major step regarding Ukraine in the very near future, this announcement also likely meant to undermine President Trump’s tireless efforts in resolving the intractable problem which is Ukraine.
War is what Lindsey wants. He and his malignant EU fellow travelers are increasing their blood thirsty bellicosity.
Merz is going to get an earful when he ventures into the lion’s den. And like Ramaphosa, who exited his meeting with our President worse for wear, I suspect this BlackRock operative will not know what has hit him.
(As an addendum, Merz who is desperate for money to shore up Germany’s perilous economic and financial state, is planning to introduce a tax aimed at US tech companies. Not a wise move, Herr Merz…FAFO you will and soon.)
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/punitive-politics-and-economic-self-harm-germany-plans-special-tax-us-tech-giants
Merz will be arriving 1 day early, perhaps to meet with the Senate ala Zelensky?
Same playbook.
No subtlety there, Marcia.
At least there is “transparency”.
Of a sort.
The goblin elites live for war that others die for.
Sounds like they took out a good portion of the Russian Airforce. Think it is because Kyiv just got blasted with missiles and glide bombs? FAFO
Eeeewwww.
Working against Trump for the warmongers
Miss Lindsay Graham was also in Ukraine.
Surprised he won’t be in San Fran for the opening of Pride Month today.
PRIDEMONTH
We need a new Senator in SC. We detest him here but like herpes he keeps coming back and just as ugly and painful.
how does he keep getting elected if he is hated?
Who says he was elected?
Mark Lynch.
Why
Bush and Saakashvili: A Case Study in What Not to Do
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/bush-and-saakashvili-a-case-study-in-what-not-to-do/
Odessa
Georgia ex-leader Saakashvili has Ukrainian citizenship restored
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48437792
anti-Trump
Zelenskiy vows to engage in returning Saakashvili back to Ukraine
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/zelenskiy-vows-engage-returning-saakashvili-back-ukraine-2021-10-03/
A note about Mike Pompeo and financial interests: [New York Post excerpt from April 21, 2025]
“Mike Pompeo lands lucrative post-Trump deals, including multimillion-dollar Ukraine gig
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has racked up a string of lucrative directorships since leaving office, The Post can reveal, including a multimillion-dollar consulting gig with Ukraine’s top cell phone operator.
Pompeo, whose security detail was revoked by President Trump in January, signed up for an advisory job with Kyivstar and its Nasdaq-listed parent VEON in June of last year, financial filings show.
The 61-year-old had joined the boards of Kyivstar and VEON in November 2023 and May 2024, respectively.
Documents reviewed by The Post show that Pompeo is paid $50,000 a month — or $600,000 a year — for “strategic and financial advice” and “supporting dialogue with relevant Ukrainian, US and EU stakeholders.”
Pompeo’s Delaware-based Impact Investments firm was also handed stock warrants worth $16 million, and a $3 million bonus “in connection with the successful completion of a strategic M&A transaction.”
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“Money is the mother’s milk of politics.” = Jesse Unruh, now deceased California politician.
Does Pompeo still have a security clearance?
Revoked in January this year.
Hmm, it’s nothing good when Satan shows up. How embarrassing pretending you’re still important. Maybe he is to arms dealers and child traffickers.
A: Because Pompeous is on the War Pig Payroll and trying to stir up Permanent War for his own Blood Money Payoff.
The better question: Why was he pacing at the Convention with Handwara, awaiting the “good news” from Butler?
Maybe this had something to do with it:…
“This was highlighted by Keith Kellogg seemingly acknowledging recent “leaks” that Putin’s new memorandum would include a requirement for NATO to desist from expanding eastward to countries like Moldova, Georgia, or even beyond. Kellogg here appears to acquiesce to these demands:
He states: “We’re saying comprehensively, we can stop the expansion of NATO coming close to your border.”
On one hand, this may appear to be a good step forward by the US in finally acknowledging Russia’s security concerns, and it should be said, implicitly acknowledging that the conflict was in fact started by NATO expansion. On the other hand, put yourself in Russia’s shoes—NATO had already sung that song to Russia back in the early ‘90s, then infamously reneged.
That’s not to mention that NATO had just expanded massively in the past two years. It feels kind of disingenuous to say: “Okay, we’ll stop further expansion” after blitzing through the largest expansion in decades right onto Russia’s doorstep with the addition of Sweden and Finland. That’s like strangling a person by the neck then whispering, don’t worry, I promise not to squeeze any harder than this.
The US’ diplomatic forays were indirectly answered by this blockbuster UN speech by Russian ambassador Vasily Nebenzya:
He states unequivocally that Russia will no longer play these games, allow provocations on its border or even in its zone of interest, and is more than ready to fight for as long as necessary to eliminate the threat, as well as protect Russian people in this wider region.
That’s not to mention China’s deputy UN rep Geng Shuang in the same session likewise reaffirmed the US’ responsibility for the Ukraine war:
Lavrov likewise reiterated that there will be no returning to past formulas:
State Duma Defense Committee Chairman Kartapolov issued an even more pronounced statement — that Ukraine would lose Sumy, Zaporozhye, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkov, Nikolayev, and Odessa if it continues to resist:
On the front, Ukraine’s position continues to deteriorate as the Russian summer offensive ramps up. The key focus has been Sumy as Russian forces seized the initiative and made several breakthroughs in different directions.
The word is that some Ukrainian units were withdrawn from Sumy weeks ago to help shore up the crumbling Konstantinovka direction, leaving Sumy region weakened. From a Russian military channel:
Now Russian forces are pouring through the border like a sieve, causing panic in Ukrainian upper circles. Most notably this was seen when Zelensky cut his German trip short yesterday, citing the Sumy emergency as reason.”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-53125-russian-breakthrough
When the Europeans gave their sovereignty and formed the EU, gave up their currency for the Euro I then knew this is where it would land-national, cultural, moral, religious subjugation. When the illegal immigrant crisis hit Europe, I knew we were next. DJT has given us temporary reprieve and hope.
Before the Xiden junta usurped the WH, the illegal alien population in the US was already 30-50M. Now it’s 45-65M.
We weren’t next. We were 1st.
Nope. Look at the numbers chronologically. In other words, the time frames tell the story.
numbers
“Build Back Donor$” – Class of 86
Merz is the co-leader of the yellow-bellied, limp-wristed, coked-out leadership of the EU, which includes only about four or five others with real pull in their corrupt, elitist-globalist system, always being conned and bribed by the international intelligence gangsters. Of course, they are still using Zelensky as their front man clown-puppet, who must do and say exactly as the EU and the Ukrainian shadow NAZI government tell him.
This thing is not going to end well. Neither for Germany nor for Ukraine. And neither for all of Europe run by these historical fools.
Oh, maybe not end well for the current German Govt. or current leaders of the EU.
However, this may be just whats needed, to bring about regime change of the EU, and of the member States across Europe.
A bad (for Germany and the EU) trade deal, combined with the U.S. backing away from NATO to focus more attention Eastward, means the end of the gravyvtrain of U.S. wealth being exfiltrated.
The natives are already restless, over the open migration and getting major resistance.
Watch what happens when they announce austerity measures, as they no longer have our $ to finance their generous pension plans, etc.
Agree totally Dutchman. Interesting times for sure. God has given us front row seats. Live your best life Treepers.
Merz isn’t calling the shots.
Syrian Civil War produced the current European predicament…IRT Syrian diaspora and subsequent effects.
Recommend reviewing that history and subsequent re-alignments (to include recent American initiatives) for context.
Love the visuals.
The more I study PDJT, the more I am amazed and how much one man can accomplish; the more I want to ask how he does so much.
I think it is because he has some core fundamental principles and beliefs that he abides by, some core assumptions, and that is what he wants. He wants the same thing for anyone he is negotiating with. So there is no manipulation, persuasion to fool people, no 4D or 8D chess. He has faith in Truth. His genius isn’t so much in complex strategy — it is in his faith that Truth wins if you stay true to it.
He is maximizing the core freedoms of US citizens to produce wealth in proportion to their willingness to work and develop skills, ingenuity, and useful products for the world. He is fiercely protecting the US economic environment from predators who lie, steal, cheat, seek to dominate/enslave us and destroy us. He sees that as his job.
These Truths are the same Truths of the same Creator upon which our Republic and its Constitution were built.
He doesn’t want human life lost. He has a basic respect for all people who operate by the same truths. He despises most greatly those in our country who have betrayed their oath to the Constitution and We the People by letting others take advantage of our benevolence.
He makes fun of those whose beliefs are not aligned with Truth. He despises most those who are hypocrites claiming to serve this country, but who in reality are lying, deceptive thieves, grifters, and swindlers.
He lets his enemies dash themselves against the immovable rocks of Truth.
Merz is duplicitous. He has sold his soul and obtained his power by aligning with those who wish to profit from war and the loss of human live, who wish to profit at the expense of economies of common people, including his own people. He has allowed his country to by flooded with non aligned immigrants for the sake of keeping political control.
Now Merz is forced to choose between protecting the economy, livelihood, safety and well being of the true citizens of his country or continuing to serve the people he thought would give him power and money. His betrayal of his own people is coming to light, and they are watching him. Sunlight is shining bright on him. He has nowhere to hide. He is standing in front of his own people and his next move will show his wise citizens who Merz is really serving.
Our great and very stable Lion has become the champion of common people in every country, because he is standing fiercely and resolutely on faith in his Creator. People are not stupid. Not all people, not all the time. They recognize Truth and Light.
Once again, very well crafted, well worded comment.
I feel like you are divinely inspired, when you write about Presiden Trump like this.
Couldn’t agree more.
Thank you Dutch! Every once in a while it seems to come out right
“He despises most those who are hypocrites claiming to serve this country, but who in reality are lying, deceptive thieves, grifters, and swindlers.”
We need to get our own huge out of control house in order where 20% of the economy is controlled…I would suggest that the POTUS focus on and fix corporate greed in health care mixed with the fraud in Medicare/Medicaid, which filters down to the front lines bottom up.
On a grander scale, finding the truth would mean dissecting international business law that has a symbiotic relationship with, national laws in a micromanaging tactic. Shakespeare was right…
So much reform is needed, and so little time available to PDJT.
I Cannot Wait for DOGE, Financial cash flow analysis, Data Drivers, incentives, and outcomes to be exposed in health care.
Patients are dying because of loss of effectiveness of the U.S. healthcare system. Accountability is no longer to masters of clinical care, but to mechanisms driving profit of hospitals, insurance companies, pharmaceuticals, and fraud and abuse. Our congress, judicial system, and bureaucratic guardians are looking the other way due to payoffs at worse, misaligned incentives at best.
The face to face providers of health care are burning out, committing suicide, leaving their fields and their calling, and freshly educated are poorly trained, poorly experienced, and unable to provide needed care.
I dare not get my hopes up, as I have been disappointed time and again.
He lets his enemies dash themselves against the immovable rocks of truth……
That’s a brilliant prognosis Doc.
Truth IS his faith.
The Peasants’ War: Why Germany’s Elite Fear the Past
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/the-peasants-war-why-germanys-elite-fear-the-past/
This guy looks to me like he very seriously has a stick up his you know what.
I wonder if he’s ever seen a smile…much less given one.
Well, the smile only shows up depending on how much cocaine is available to do with his boyz.
Will Merz be meeting w/Whimsey to discuss Zel?
Merz has a creepy feel about him.
Didn’t he Macron and Starmer get caught with an 8 ball on the table on the train lolz?
But really, don’t they all?
Yes, they all have that creepy feel. Viktor and Fico do not, maybe because they are real men and patriots.
If a German Chancellor is supposed to focus on what matters most to to Germany, what explains the current state of Germany – righteous and prideful suicide.
You do have to ask yourself how much longer a country that is apparently bent on committing economic suicide by abandoning its industrial base with the embracing of unreliable power sources will continue to enjoy its EU status. It tells you a lot about the rest of the EU economy that apparently it still does.
Make sure he gets some cocaine!
Trump should talk to him about:
the censorship of free speech,
Dissing the AFD,
allowing the rapefugees in
prosecuting that American woman who struck back at her attacker/wannabe raper
Ukraine/NATO–NO MORE US MONEY OR ARMS
Dang. I should have scrolled.
Some interesting revelation about Macron:
He is part of a Gay Paree set
Lady Colin Campbell (who adopted 2 Russian orphans, who has some Russian ancestry and friendly with many Russian aristocrats)
I dont know how to cut the video but its here
Lady Colin on Macron in Gay Paree
Watch from–7.06-16.33
Was it two winters ago that Germans were cutting down trees to heat their homes because of the rising cost of natural gas?
Almost a 50% rise in the AVERAGE electricity costs across the breadth of Europe since 2019 (Germany, Denmark, and Ireland are the highest – FOUR times that of Hungary).
Natural Gas prices – again the AVERAGE for all of the EU (in this case Germany is FIVE times that of Hungary and Sweden, Italy, and the Netherlands leading the price pack):
Don’t forget that the German government continues to provide taxpayer funding of illegal residents and “asylum seekers”, and even Christian Democrat Merz espouses green climate-change policies, all to the detriment of the German economy. Merz even took the unusual step of calling into session the leftist majority parliament that had already been voted out of office in order to change the German constitution to include carbon dioxide reductions.
The elites in Germany and the EU feel entitled to suppress what they call “hate speech” (i.e. the hate directed at them and their policies). The mass media rarely call the German and EU Uniparty policies into question.
For this reason, I don’t really see Merz representing German economic interests in his upcoming meeting with President Trump.
Can’t wait for the Oval office presser, which may top the one with Zman, and the one with the President of South Africa.
With JD Vance & Rubio on the sofa as well and find a way to bring up freedom of speech.
Perhaps even mention the Deutscher pharma entities that have vowed to play in the US.
Silly me – I thought America would not issue visas to anyone who censored American Citizens,or is Mr Musk not American?
Very OT.
Musk has US citizenship.
You missed my point, the German should be banned for insulting Mr Musk and censoring the opposition.
Yes. That was the proclamation. However, PDJT is not going to go travel to meet Merz in the belly of the Beast.
Make Merz come to him just like Zelensky and SA (racist) President and Canada’s Carney. Let them beclown themselves in front of the US citizens.
This puts PDJT in the Power Position because he doesn’t greet them like how he was greeted in the ME. There is no pomp and circumstances. They walk through a doorway after the handshake.
The picture of the Lion….
says it all!
😁 😁
I would love for Trump to press for release of Reiner Fullmich from prison. A political prisoner of Germany. Sundance, could you put a bug in someone’s ear?
Yup lawyer digging into clot shots, and war crimes tribunals for those involved!
Joe Biden blew up the German gas pipeline – a vital piece of economic infratructure – and Germany took it.
Never said a word.
Can we even call these “negotiations” or just an exchange of instructions / runbook of the US telling the EU / Germany what to do?
But President Trump quickly valued off China (twice?), the EU, and the UK.
Will they have the 50% steel tariff?
You need cheap energy to melt aluminum and fire the steel mills.
Germany lost their supply of cheap energy, so these industries would face an uphill battle already regardless of tariffs
Germany is now on a DE-industriaIizing trajectory..
Bingo!
True. Germany guzzled the green Kool-Aid, just like the eunuch-nation Canada.
There was money to be made by their “leaders” for selling out their citizens. Even they don’t believe the green energy BS. They just found a new way to skim money from a new government initiative.
And, given that the U.S. Trade policy has so much leverage that it has been used by President Trump to stop wars, including a potential nuclear war between India and Pakistan, why wouldn’t PDJT condition our trade policy with Germany in particular, and the EU more broadly, on them backing off on their support for Ukraine to be more aggressive,..and even to pressure them to exhibit greater respect for human rights, i.e. free speech?
The U.S. does not need anything Germany, or the E.U. sell us. THEY however, must sell into our market.
And, they are trouble makers.
This is using trade policy to exert SOFT POWER, that is under the direct control of President Trump, and actually MAKES $ for the U.S., unlike the USAID dispensed aid, via NGO’s that cost American taxpayers, and is NOT under the control of PDJT, and is largely working to thwart his efforts.
When he says “Economic Security is National Security” I am not sure many appreciate fully what that means.
Disturbing footage from Germany Syrians from Raqqah kidnap and hold a German woman in Germany while laughing. “I got you a gift, she’s all yours, let’s take her to Raqqa!
https://nitter.poast.org/MOSSADil/status/1928919952217546768#m
It will be interesting to see if Merz gets the Zelensky and Ramaphosa treatment, with Vance, Rubio and Trump taking turns attacking him.
If I was Trump I wouldn`t even meet with this nitwit. Germany supplies those missiles, and Russia destroys them! Europe is actively sabotaging peace along with Zelensky. Heard Miss Lyndsay Graham was in Ukraine egging them on. Trump needs to get us out NOW!
Another Ukrainian terror attack today in Russia blew up a highway bridge which fell on a civilian train killing Russian civilians!
Anyone going to Ukraine, unless directed by the President to do so, should have to pay for the trip expenses OUT OF THEIR OWN POCKET – not on our dimes.
As far as allowing Mertz to come to DC – the most effective and clear communication is face-to-face.
Wonder if the chancellor has done anything that he’ll get scolded over in the WH?? If anyone will call you on the carpet it will be Trump. Go Trump.
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“Who are you with?”
That lion looks very hungry…
Merz was on Blackrock’s main board in Germany so that will inevitably colour his views. He seems to have a deep hatred for Russia.
For instance, Germany’s and much of Europe’s wealth over the past 30+ years is built on one main factor, low cost, reliable pipeline natural gas. Very inconveniently sourced from Russia.
In 2022, in one of the most critical cases of cutting ones nose off to spite ones face, the EU walked away from that supply, causing the price of NG to go through the roof and many heavy industries to face catastrophic and in many cases terminal loses.
If one was looking for a good reason and money always is, why Orban/Hungary is in Brussels hate books, he did a deal with Russia in Fall 2021 that secured and increased their supply of Russian pipeline gas, via Turkstream pipeline, at a price much lower than anyone else is paying.
Meanwhile, digging an even bigger potential economic hole, Merz this week declared that he will take steps to ensure that the damaged (one of four is OK) Northstream pipelines are never usable again.
When all their global competitors have access to much cheaper energy Europe’s future looks pretty bleak. Even with the best trade deal possible from the US (easy good PR for the US) European industries cost base is up sh*t creek, its sad to say..
The crazy aspect to this is that such is their need the EU is buying as much Russian LPG as it can get hold of, without being obvious of course, at several times the cost of their prior pipeline gas.
I suspect there may be another canceled luncheon visit…..even if Merz is wearing a suit. Trump doesn’t suffer fools and snark without taking the person down a peg or two before showing them the door–and Merz is just another Macron in that department.
This guy looks like it nasty ,
I hope President Trump has all his best chess moves lined up and anticipates the moves of the Chancellor.
When this freak comes to visit, President Trump should arrange a bowl full of confectioners sugar and a dainty little spoon for ze Chancellors morning coffee service..
As long as he and Macron believe their IC handlers can deliver them elections and their Central Bank ones control economic levers, they will remain too arrogant to negotiate with. Not much different from China, except that culturally they realize they can’t be as brazen.
At the White House, I want President Trump to confront Merz openly over Germany’s crackdown on the AfD. I want him to say what no other Western leader will say out loud—that you don’t get to pretend you represent democracy while banning opposition parties. I want him to draw a straight line from Merz to Biden, from lawfare in Washington to political suppression in Berlin. And I want him to do it in front of the cameras.
Trump doesn’t need to endorse AfD. He just needs to force Merz to explain why he’s criminalizing political dissent while claiming to lead a “free Europe.” That moment, that tension, is what breaks the image. Merz walks in thinking he’s negotiating as the voice of Europe. Trump flips that. He makes him answer for silencing millions of his own people. He shows the world that this isn’t a partner at the table, it’s a bureaucrat clinging to power.
From that moment forward, every EU conversation about trade with the U.S. takes place under a different shadow. If Germany can’t carry the bloc’s message without getting humiliated, then other countries stop following. The EU unity unravels because the core power just got publicly exposed as fragile and illegitimate.
The saying goes, the Dutch are Germans with a sense of humor. The corollary is true as well, the Germans are Dutch without a sense of humor. At least the Dutch have Wilders trying to keep the “free”. The Germans don’t have anyone fighting for their freedom, not even themselves. Why these idiots want keep stoking war and hate is mind boggling. 🤦♂️
Germany has lost their identity..they are the EU now.
If any of the EU members want to have a chance (that is of what’s left) of their nation’s identity, they would withdraw from the EU.
What has membership in the EU given any of these countries?
Being bullied by Brussels.
Voting in their countries is worthless
Mass invasion by people who are there to take, overtake, and never assimilate.
Devaluing of their currency.
Warmongering by France and Germany, when these other countries want nothing to do with warmongering.
The tax man comes a knocking with their hand out, whether they have the money or not. The EU probably has liens on every historical building in their countries; “Pay up, buddy, or else.”
The Green New Scam annihilating their way of life
These countries are at a pivotal moment in time and hopefully it’s not too late to begin a correction.
Merz has claimed that Trump is with the EU in attacking Russia, even after Trump has been working towards peace with Putin. I would like to hear Merz justify what he said. I would also like him to justify his oppression of the AfD. You can’t claim to be democratic while suppressing your political opposition. That’s not how a free nation operates.
Looking forward to seeing Trump give this little kraut the Zelensky & Ramaphosa treatment.
Merz another arrogant German. While I’m sorry for the German people, I’m hoping Trump doesn’t decide to play nice guy cause Merz is all in for the globalist overlords
Don’t cut him any slack!!!!
“The leaders will meet in the White House on Thursday and are expected to discuss the war in Ukraine, the Middle East and trade policy, German government spokesperson Stefan Kornelius said in an emailed statement.”
“Merz will travel to the U.S. capital a day ahead of the meeting”.
Wonder who he’s meeting before PDJT??
“The meeting will be followed by a lunch and a press conference, according to the report”
Doesn’t seem that they have noticed the press conference is in Oval Office, there maybe no need for the lunch. LOL
Remember, Germany is a vassal state of the US. Why else would Germany have so many US military bases on their soil?
Germany is hardly a vassal state of the US… In regards to the bases – because they love to be protected without having to expend the funds necessary to do so, just like the rest of the EU thieves.
I wouldn’t raise tarrifs against Germany, because of their oppression against the right’s free speech, I’d boycott them.
That’s okay. Well stay outa your politics AND your economy! How’s that!
Germany – or ANY EU country – complaining about interference is hilarious, as they constantly and persistently interfere in America. Mertz can pound sand, we’ll say whatever we want.
Germany is a lot like our California. A solid core of smart conservatives being run by smug liberals who have permitted the country to be overrun by immigrants who are sucking the lifeblood out of its society. The German economic trajectory is the same as well. Circling down without the energy from Russia and would collapse without the support of the money from the US government and consumer.
Leave us alone! President Trump is a NATIONALIST, not a globalist. If you want to bankrupt your countries, kill innocent people on both sides of the line, its your call. However, President Trump eyes are on America. He’s more than tried to help. You can’t help people who don’t want to be helped. Lives for land. Seems like a cheap exchange. Leaders choose and citizens lose. Stay home.
The Germans, of all people, should by now know what “World War” looks like, having lost two of them so far. But, watch them closely – they’re “re-arming” themselves again. It’s been eighty years since the last “grand European war.” And there are those in Europe who are now naïvely saying: “Well, let’s have another go.” They know not whereof they speak, but they speak anyway.
He may as well be Fred Mertz Lucy’s neighbor. Trump plays with these people, it’s sport for him.
They don’t have another major war pending, they are getting thirsty for more blood money.
Early on, the discussion was how the destruction of Nordstream impacted German industry, business and economy VERY negatively, and that aside from a small pipeline coming from Norway, the rest of their industry was being fueled by US LPG at a tremendous expense. While I understand that much of Russian fuel is now servicing the EU, ‘secretly’ through India and other distributors, I question whether much of the discussion of the ‘importance’ of Germany is still relevant.
AfD. There is a reason why this is growing in popularity in the German population, and why the current German government attempts to outlaw this political party.
The NordStream Terror Bombing was a CIA attack on Germany, not Russia.
You’ve got it.
Will Merz be sporting a toothbrush mustache and attitude?
I predict that in response to a zero-tariff base on industrial goods proposal, Trump will dim the lights and show the Chancellor the lop-sided NATO funding among the two countries and how Germany uses it more than us. I don’t see what leverage Germany can bring to the table…
Here is hoping for another Oval Office showdown. It seems to be Trump’s practice to have Vance and Rubio among others in attendance.
Merz is about to get a MAGA Education.
As we wait on Colonel Klink. 🧐
At one time I thought – this isn’t the people, its their government.
Then, after some reflection, I realized it is the people – because that’s the government they keep voting for.
Germany is a victim of its own people.
Good luck with that.
Perhaps a big dose of election and voter fraud is also in the mix, just like here.
Germany is finished. Let’s cut the pretense. That society is moribund, unless they reestablish their relationship with Russia. This country has always depended on cheap energy from the East, to drive their economic engine. And now, with them going so hard in this green energy crap, they have the highest energy costs in Europe.
How is that smart? And it’s only going to get worse. Look at the disaster that happened in Spain and some parts of Portugal, not too long ago. The green religion has taken over Europe.
Many of these nations are running on fumes and old glory. That can only take you so far.