Putin has succeeded - "The West as we once knew it no longer exists."

[pangaia]

Why Germans Are Getting Fed Up with America

It’s getting harder for Angela Merkel and the German elite to hold back growing anti-Americanism.

By Leonid Bershidsky

May 14, 2018, 9:18 AM EDT Corrected May 16, 2018, 4:03 AM EDT

"The West as we once knew it no longer exists. Our relationship to the United States cannot currently be called a friendship and can hardly be referred to as a partnership. President Trump has adopted a tone that ignores 70 years of trust. He wants punitive tariffs and demands obedience. It is no longer a question as to whether Germany and Europe will take part in foreign military interventions in Afghanistan or Iraq. It is now about whether trans-Atlantic cooperation on economic, foreign and security policy even exists anymore. The answer: No."

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-05-14/germany-is-getting-fed-up-with-trump-and-america

[smirkymonkey]

1. Look at what he has done to us in just a year and a half!

Can you imagine where we will be by the end of his first term? God forbid he wins a second term. I can't even say what I am thinking right now.

[kimbutgar]

2. If we don't take at least one house in November it is game over for the USA

Party over country with these gop rats.

[pangaia]

5. It is not even "party" over country.

It is ME over country AND party.

[pangaia]

7. I can not imagine where we will be even in August!

Will they have started arresting 'non-believers' by then?

Or people with negative trump FB posts?

[smirkymonkey]

15. I honestly wouldn't doubt it. And I am not being impetuous here.

I don't think that these are things that are too far-fetched if this administration remains in power. People like to deny the comparisons between our current administration and Germany under Hitler, but I can absolutely see it happening. We can already see how he is immune to the rule of law. That means nothing can stop him from whatever he wants to do.

[pangaia]

17. Not just Hitler, although that is the reference everybody seems to use.

Any authoritarian government.

[brokephibroke]

3. When traveling overseas

It's best to make it known that you did not vote for trump and that we all will be happy when he is gone.

[kimbutgar]

10. I was in Europe in March and there is definitely an anti Twitler attitude

When people asked where were from we said San Francisco. It was code for us to say we were not his supporters. A couple of people asked how could Our country elect such a liar after having the intelligent thoughtful President Obama.

[brokephibroke]

14. Same idea for me

Let them know I am from Colorado. I did not talk to one person who supported trump.

[CurtEastPoint]

11. Am in France now and have said that repeatedly and I always get a smile or a grimace when HIS

name is mentioned. One person said, 'Then you are forgiven!' when I said I didn't vote for him.

[pangaia]

13. I have no problem. The people I hang with don't even have to ask.

[bronxiteforever]

4. Wow. Great article this part

“Now, another incomprehensible economic spectacle is unfolding parallel to Trump’s pressure on European steel and aluminum exporters. National Security Adviser John Bolton is threatening sanctions against European companies for dealing with Iran — and, at the same time, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is promising U.S. investment in North Korea if it denuclearizes. Wasn’t that what the Iran deal was about?
“So, American firms will soon be able to do business in North Korea, but not European ones in Iran,” commentator Mark Schieritz wrote on Twitter. “

[pangaia]

6. I could not decide which paragraphs to leave out.

So I just left them ALL out, except that one quote.

"We" are finished.

[bronxiteforever]

9. You are right and that is heartbreaking

[dalton99a]

8. +1. There is no foreign policy.

[Chickensoup]

12. Nothing should be taken for granted.

Non of us should be disheartened by
what Trump is doing. Trump will pass
as nothing comes to stay.
Putin has not won unless we decide
to loose, and we have not conceded and
we will not as long as we have people
like you who care and love America
and the ideals it stand for.
We will not back down.We will not be
intimated by a corrupt leader supported
by disgraceful political party.
The lesson is clear again, as it has played
through out history, nothing should be
taken for granted. Freedom, democracy
and basic rights can be lost if we do
not protect and defend them.

[BlueJac]

16. What a shame...

and it didn't take him long!