The EU has balked at the request of President Trump to support military escorts for EU oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz destined for European Ports. However, it is the position of German Chancellor Fredrich Merz which really highlights the arrogance of the issue.
Germany has deactivated its nuclear reactors and decided not to purchase Russian oil/gas. As a consequence, the German industrial economy is contracting; the German auto industry is collapsing; German manufacturing plants are closing – and mass layoffs have been announced.
Into this self-created dynamic, Germany has become dependent on (1) Oil and Gas from the middle east, and (2) LNG from the USA. Germany is a completely dependent nation on the issue of energy production. Yet, this is Germanys position:
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Setting aside for a moment that “the middle east is not a matter for NATO,” while reminding ourselves Ukraine is also not a NATO member state – yet Germany is supporting the pro-war ‘coalition of the willing,’ President Trump previously pointed out that NATO would never come to the aid of the USA when the Greenland Arctic Security debate was going on.
The EU in general, and Germany specifically, is essentially proving President Trump’s point. However, as a result of intentional migration, Germany has over five million Muslim residents now residing inside the country. We should consider that this overlay is also part of their internal political consideration.
What Chancellor Merz said next is almost too European to be real, but it is:
The German government destroyed affordable energy for Germans. The German government refuses to escort their own equity stakes to mitigate energy costs for Germans. Now the German government will limit the price increases to once per day to provide relief to Germans.
Seriously folks, you cannot make this stuff up.
The tectonic plates are shifting, and we are bearing witness to old geopolitical structures collapsing as the ground beneath them moves.
When history is written it will reflect that President Trump didn’t destroy NATO – he simply removed the mask.
PRESIDENT TRUMP – “The United States has been informed by most of our NATO “Allies” that they don’t want to get involved with our Military Operation against the Terrorist Regime of Iran, in the Middle East, this, despite the fact that almost every Country strongly agreed with what we are doing, and that Iran cannot, in any way, shape, or form, be allowed to have a Nuclear Weapon.
I am not surprised by their action, however, because I always considered NATO, where we spend Hundreds of Billions of Dollars per year protecting these same Countries, to be a one-way street — We will protect them, but they will do nothing for us, in particular, in a time of need.
Fortunately, we have decimated Iran’s Military — Their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their Anti-Aircraft and Radar is gone and perhaps, most importantly, their Leaders, at virtually every level, are gone, never to threaten us, our Middle Eastern Allies, or the World, again! Because of the fact that we have had such Military Success, we no longer “need,” or desire, the NATO Countries’ assistance — WE NEVER DID! Likewise, Japan, Australia, or South Korea.
In fact, speaking as President of the United States of America, by far the Most Powerful Country Anywhere in the World, WE DO NOT NEED THE HELP OF ANYONE! Thank you for your attention to this matter.”
If the EU/NATO countries don’t want to support their own oil shipments, then pull the USA out of EU/NATO support arrangements.
Why do we continue to be bothered with Europe/EU/NATO? They are culturally, economically, and militarily suicidal.
And they have never been friends with the US. They work against us at every turn. Please, please pull us out of NATO and abolish 5 Eyes!
Don’t forget the United Nations kick them out of New York and let them go to communist China set up shop over there. 🤣
Unfortunately, the U.N. owns the building and the land it occupies.
No water, no power, no sewer….. no land access, only a helo pad on the roof. :)))
Confiscate the whole lot
The UN does not pay any property taxes on that land and buildings. Revoke their special tax-free waiver. Then confiscate it for unpaid taxes.
BINGO!! The majority are neither our friend nor ally. Since NATO countries will not support the US, let’s say good-bye to NATO. It is a RARE occasion when the US ever asks for assistance.
The Euroweenies have made their bed…now they have to lie in it
Why? Because you want to suck as much money out of them as possible.
I think the gravy train is going to end very shortly.
Check out this YouTube channel of a couple that walks the streets to show how awful Europe is. It’s disgusting.
https://youtube.com/@twomadexplorers?si=Tobgx-1SfMhKndPo
Unfortunately, many of our once beautiful cities have turned into the third world here in the USA.
If it’s true that it would take an act of congress to get us out of NATO, we wouldn’t have the votes???
Stop the $$$$$ like all the others!!
Too many warpigs in Congress
Yes. Remember that CONGress *proactively* passed legislation to prohibit a withdrawal from NATO without their permission.
They know exactly what they’re doing. This is the exact same CONgress -with Republican majority mind you- that has stymied our President through TWO terms in office by refusing to call a *one* day recess so he can finally appoint his own cabinet.
Don’t ever think them
inept. They are laser focused on taking down MAGA along with their democrat cohorts.
Doubtful constitutionally, as it can be seen to infringe on the President’s power to set foreign policy.
I assume that someone with “standing” would have to take that up with the same Supreme Court that has already decided President Trump had *no* standing to challenge the treasonous coup of 2020, which prevented the peaceful transition of power guaranteed under the US Constitution. So I wouldn’t expect the Supremes to defend our President -or our Constitutional Republic- from CONgressional overreach.. the US Constitution be damned!
Let Congress defend the fact we are the only fighting force in NATO.
In fact, the President can abrogate a treaty. Although the Constitution specifies that a treaty must be ratified by 2/3 of the Senate, it specifies no abrogation process, and Presidents can abrogate treaties (and have done so).
Although Congress passed such a law about a year ago, it is of dubious value, since a plausible argument can be made that it infringes upon the President’s power to set foreign policy. Customarily, it is a President who presents a treaty to the Senate for ratification; logically, a President should be able to withdraw the country from a treaty.
Could we please leave NATO and the UN in one swoop? It’s time to rip the bandaid off.
Old geopolitical order collapsing??
One domino after another.
I can see it from my house.
None of us knew this was what we were voting for in 2024.
But we were.
And it is a glorious thing to behold.
President Trump, a man who has more than he shows, speaks less than he knows.
Amen
I have been waiting a long time for us to remove from NATO. We should not be paying vast sums of money for their security.
It’s about time they float their own stick.
Oh happy day! 🙂
They have once again publicly demonstrated they are in fact eunuchs. EUnuchs is so fitting for those worms they are absolutely pathetic
Eunuchs, that’s the word I was looking for. Perfect.
There are plenty of eunuchs in the DC sewer too…
He should resign immediately. It isn’t that he is incapable, he is unwilling.
They can all go to the EU and be energy brokers. Haha, good luck.
They’ve backed themselves into an inescapable corner, dear sir. Deindustrialization, unaffordable benefits for their new citizens to replace the old, their never ending attempt to conquer Russia through Ukraine and parcel out the spoils of war to themselves, their insufferable hubris and moral bankruptcy.
I feel compelled repeat once more…
Lord Macmillan when he was British PM was asked what could derail his agenda.
“Events, dear boy, events.”
It was ever thus.
They were supremely confident that they were invincible, decades in the planning, that they had crossed the finish line for One World Government with themselves as rulers and the rest in servitude that they relaxed…and never looked behind them.
And there was President Donald John Trump, a one man wrecking ball with a plan.
The “Event” they never saw coming.
Germany and the other Euros are losing their war in Ukraine. There will be no spoils.
The US is winning our war in Iran.
Perfect.
Again thank you,Betsy.
PT sees that the EU is weak and a joke except for Hungary and a couple of others. He just needs to figure out how not to get trapped under NATO Article 5 via a false flag event.
The real power brokers who refuse to play the Globalist mass immigration game will unite IMO under a new Big 6/7 economic agreement.
The big 6/7 are US, Russia, China, Japan, India, Israel and SA.
This IMO is who PT aligns economically with because as we know economics is the glue for peace.
How about nix China.
But imagine Venezuela as a US Territory – the oil and ‘rare’ [not rare] mineral resources.
Since they ignored us with regards to Hormuz, we should ignore them with regards to Article 5. How can they make us go to war for them?
China?
Are you nuts?
who is SA?
South Africa.
Let their tankers insure and defend themselves.
You can get gas in Germany for only $2.99…
Unfortunately it’s from Taco Bell 🙂
Taco Tuesday!
POTUS Trump is setting them up, making them expose their cards, and they are oblivious.
I’m a guess, the fall of NATO is coming.
The “allies” who declined to help when asked will come to rue the day they “bit the hand that feeds them”. There will be repercussions.
It should have happened a year ago. Finally in the open. Full speed ahead.
Smart man. It’s a fool’s errand.
If they want the oil, they had best come and get it.
For me, the issue is even simpler – Trump has lost soft power.
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But they’re all in on involving Germany in the killing of non-NATO Ukrainian men in a war they helped start.
NATO doesnt belong in ukraine, and it doesnt belong in the ME.
NATO doesn’t belong post Berlin wall and how soon did Germany forget about that support for it?
NATO was involved in Afghanistan for nearly 20 years.
It says everything about modern Germany that for a period of time they actually tried to ban men standing to pee in public restrooms.
Banning masculinity? I presume that, like in most oppressive cults, the men are basically expendable. So men are expelled and shunned while the women (mainly girls) are immediately put to work by the elite as breeding stock.
Interesting times we live in.
Repeating: Pull out and let them sink or swim. If they don’t want to depend their ships, then find another way. We’re fighting Iran, won over Iran, not the strait. Done. Flush, finish and help the Iranians keep their homeland. Surely, CIA can do one thing for America.
The alphabet agencies are the problem.
no, congress is the problem. If they’d take control and let the administration do what needs to be done, the alphabet agencies could be cleaned but no, the protect the guilty and keep the innocent on a tight leash.
CONgress is our enemy, next to islam and debt. Our “elected” representatives are CONmen and CONwomen who apparently forget about their constituents when they arrive in the cesspool of DC.
While the alphabet agencies ARE a huge problem, they can be controlled or eliminated by CONgress.
CONgress was installed, NOT elected. Doesn’t it all make sense now?
Prior to Reagan’s defense buildup in the eighties, the opinion of most military officers that I knew who had extensive service in NATO was that NATO would not last a week against the Soviets/Warsaw Pact before resorting to tactical nuclear weapons. IMO the NATO nations, minus the US, are in relative terms, weaker today than they were then.
So why are we defending these slugs who are too worthless to defend themselves?
i think thats the point, that we are NOT going to defend them much longer.
I sometimes think of how the Flower of American Manhood was destroyed for Europe’s sake in WWI for no reason….still mad about that…..
We can’t pull out – Globalists, DC, and MIC rely on our military equipment sales to the NATO members.
Can we still sell to them anyway? Our contracts probably don’t reference NATO except perhaps to give them discounts…
Sadly I can only upvote this once.
There’s a federal judge somewhere that won’t let us pull out. Remember who runs this country.
Really, what will happen if you just keep doing what you were doing and ignore a federal judge? Nothing. They have only a contempt ruling as enforcement power.
When will the Europeans stop stepping on rakes?
When rakes are deemed verboten to the greater good?
Cold War alignment is history.
Comments to a Russian editorial summed up an impression shared by many [machine translation]:
“Iran, which lives by medieval laws and whose ayatollahs traditionally refer to the USSR and Russia as “the little Satan,” is neither a friend nor an ally of Russia, but a temporary fellow traveler. Cooperation between our countries is far more beneficial to Iran, since, like China and India, it also imposes unfavorable trade terms on us.
“I think after the war, Iran will move closer to Pakistan; Iran supported Pakistan in all its wars with India. So, after the war between the Russian Federation and Iran, there will be even less connection.”
Retired Magistrate here: My heritage is German and Irish. My parents taught me to work hard, don’t give up and your word is your bond.
The arrogance of the German Chancellor is breathtaking and the stupidity of the Irish government is appalling. Both countries have given up their heritage and common sense in order to serve the “Green New Deal” and inclusion which will make both their countries unrecognizable to their own citizens in the near future.
Of course we were headed in that direction until President Trump was elected the first time; we went backwards under Biden and are now moving in the right direction again under President Trump.
They’re afraid of the enemy already within their borders.
Even if their people do not yet appreciate their exposure due to these mass invasions, their leaders sure know the score. Replacing native populations (free people) with hostile, half-wit slaves was the end goal of the UN’s open borders “pact.”
I am a Brit and I am outraged at the idiots and/ or subversives running it.
There are many, many good people in Europe and elsewhere who are being abused by their failing, ideologically controlled governments, and they are suffering politically, socially, and economically. It is terribly unfortunate, but their hope for a better life will not be realized until their governments fail, chaos ensues, and long journeys to national recovery begin.
See what happens when there are no guns?
Aye.
Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.
Jeff Cooper
Need a way to carve out the “Willing to support the US” ones like Hungary, Poland, etc and form a new alliance.
Germany has two gang r*pes per day, yet the Liberals undermine AfD and likely assassinated a few.
Yes, but their gas is only going up once a day. So, they’re ok. SMH at the insanity, Sundance is right-you can’t make this stuff up.
Perhaps our president could impose a war time tax on gas and oil sent from US to Germany, etc….to help pay for their security.
There was a saying in Germany when we lived there decades ago when my hubby was stationed in Heilbronn; “We like your money, but send it don’t bring it”. I see it still holds true today. President Trump, bring our military home from Europe.
Perhaps our president could impose a tax on gas and oil sent from US to Germany, etc….to help pay for their security.
Men without chests. How did the Europeans become emasculated? Wusses.
Two World Wars. The fighters died leaving the rest to raise softies.
‘those who cannot be named’ are actively promoting what i refer to as the 5-d’s
it’s happening worldwide
they are determined to make the world’s citizenry
1. dumb
2. diseased
3. drugged
4. destitute
5. dead
many vectors being deployed to accomplish their goals
denying germany of energy is but one vector used to ensure the german population becomes destitute
the same is being done in the good ol usa – in states like california
there’s an undeniable method to their madness
please be aware – this economic decimation is proceeding according to plan and hardly by accident
The ruling class much prefers the feudal system of serfs.
Just a thought……how many ‘immigrants’ have been required to take the sterilizing, Covid death jab?
Good point. When treasonous, *unelected* gubmint co-conspirators set about destroying a country, it is definitely not an accident. It is all part and parcel of a decades-in-the making, planned and executed New/One World Order.
#BuildBackBetter 💥
Yes, leave us cold; hungry and left in the dark.
Like the destruction of NAFTA, president Trump is steadily laying the foundation for the US’s withdrawal from NATO.
Take our troops out of Germany and bring them home.
I would put the further east to countries who actually do their share. Not wise to remove them altogether.
Can’t argue with that.
Isa. 5:20 (NASB95)
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
The entire world is upside down. Allies are enemies and enemies are allies. I’m mostly speaking of governments. Not the people.
There’s another reason, which he can’t admit. The German Navy, like its airforce and army is incapable of satisfying any military mission beyond UN activities, or NATO exercises, as it is incapable of surviving on the 21st Century battlefield. The President is brutally exposing how the European’s have run down their armed forces so that they are unfit for purpose, unless it includes helping Ukraine commit a slow suicide.
The high sounding rhetoric spouted by the EU puppetry is designed to disguise the fact to their citizens that they are largely helpless to defend them, beyond the UK and France initiating a nuclear war. A deterrent that itself is dependent on the US, in the former case and useless against governments who are enthusiastically allowing a stealth invasion of people and cultures that their armed forces traditionally defended against, not welcomed.
i remember about ten years ago i read a report on the famous Luftwaffe and they had a grand total of twelve fighters that could fly i hope they are better equipped now
Relatively speaking, meh… -> https://www.globalmilitary.net/air_forces/deu/
withdraw from EU and NATO….see how fast they collapse.
Time to leave Nato. Use the Money here.
German engineering takes on a whole new meaning. /s
Pull out of NATO and stop funding the war in Ukraine.
> a year ago.
Buh BYE !
$ 2.347 Billion INCOME to Germany for Having U.S. Troops STATIONED THERE.
$5.01 Trillion IS GERMANY’s TOTAL GDP
Ya, but we need those troops in Cuba & Cent/So. America now so – buh bye !
France….
Trump only wants these nations to send vessels to protect their own vessels,not send ground troops to prosecute the war.
We clearly see how our ‘allies’ view the US. They will let us die for them, but they wont lift a finger to protect their interests.
I say, good riddance to bad rubbish. Let the EU purchase Russian oil if they are so afraid of angering Iran!
So no Fahrvergnügen in Wolfsburg. The mighty Fredrich has struck out.
“Gas stations may only raise fuel prices once per day.” There! that’ll make them think I’m doing something……….
This sounds like Biden 2.0
Here’s a thought, the Ukraine war is not a NATO war at all. Don’t help us with protecting your oil, we let you work out the Ukraine thingy yourself (including funding).
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Joe forgot about the internet.
I would like to see DJT extricate the US from NATO, the UN, and every other parasitic “alliance”
President Trump will pick his time and there will be a reckoning for Europe, these sorry fools are gonna really be sorry when it hits him in the Hiney. 👍
PDJT is squeezing the EU into a corner that will make it easier for us to get out of NATO. PDJT can now control the Strait and force the EU countries to pay us to get their energy to them. He can wipe those countries out very quickly. Merz, you want this oil, well pay the USA $200 per barrel. FAFO
PDJT pulled the mask off the fake news. He keeps calling a spade a spade until it is clear for most to see.
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Sounds like the Marshall Plan is finally coming to an end…
Hubris. In spades.
Which items might be needed to bury the German economy…
Let ‘em eat cake