“Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit,” says Yahweh Sabaoth.
(Zechariah 4: 6)
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Reuters—German minister warns Trump against unilateral deals with Putin:
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has warned U.S. President Donald Trump against making any unilateral deals with Russia that come with a cost for the United States’ Western allies.
Trump, who meets Russian President Vladimir Putin in Finland on Monday, this week accused Germany of being a “captive” of Russia due to its energy reliance, before a NATO summit where he pressed allies to more than double defense spending.
On Thursday, Trump described Putin as a “competitor” rather than an “enemy” and said he expected they would get on well when they hold their first summit in Helsinki. Trump also said the meeting with Putin may be the easiest on his Europe trip.
Maas welcomed the meeting, at which the U.S. president has said he will raise the issue of nuclear weapons reduction.
“We have always said that we need dialogue with Russia. That’s why it’s good if Washington and Moscow talk to each other,” Maas told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper. “It would be a step forward if this meeting also provided impetus for nuclear disarmament.”
But Maas added: “He who offends his partners, risks losing in the end. Unilateral deals at the expense of one’s own partners also harm the U.S. in the end.”
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SnyderTalk Comment:
German political leaders have screwed up their country so badly that it’s scary, and the worst for them is still in their future. Even so, as President Trump prepares to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas warned President Trump not to make any commitments to Putin that come with costs to Germany and our other NATO allies.
That’s comical. Germany is a freeloading country. They have never paid their fair share for the NATO alliance. German leaders are takers, not givers. I wish people like Maas had enough sense to pay what they owe and to stop giving their unsolicited advice so freely. Stated another way, German leaders should pony up or shut up.
At this point, I would rather hear people like Maas say, “Thank you for paying for our defense since we aren’t willing to pay to protect ourselves.”
Maas isn’t going to say that, because he thinks we owe NATO countries something. We created the NATO alliance because the worst things that have happened to the U.S. started in Europe. Their history proves that they aren’t satisfied destroying themselves. They see it as their duty to drag the rest of the world into their madness.
Mr. Maas, it’s time for people like you to defecate or get off the pot. If you aren’t willing to do your job and pay what you owe, keep your idiotic pronouncements to yourself. President Trump doesn’t need more advice from fools. He receives plenty of foolish advice in the U.S. from LPDs (“liberal progressive” Democrats).
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SnyderTalk Comment:
I could not have said it any better.
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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)
