Uh Oh!! Cracks in the European Alliance?

[blue-wave]

Trump could push Germany toward Russia and China, veteran diplomat says


BERLIN (Reuters) - The longer Donald Trump stays in office, the higher the risk that anti-American forces will gain the upper hand in Germany and push it into the arms of Russia and China, veteran German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger said in an interview. <snip>

<snip> Against this backdrop, some German politicians are urging the government to seek closer ties with Moscow and Beijing - two authoritarian powers whose values diverge from the liberal democracy that Germany has built in the seven decades since it rose from the ashes of World War Two with American help. Chancellor Angela Merkel, a strong believer in the transatlantic relationship, has resisted. <snip>


Full Article: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-usa-ischinger-interview/trump-could-push-germany-toward-russia-and-china-veteran-diplomat-says-idUSKCN1LJ1Q5



If Germany moves away from us, there goes the EU and NATO. Europe will be in a chaotic free for all. Putin would jump for joy. We cannot allow this to happen.

[Garrett78]

1. We need public support for impeachment to top 60%.

Then just *maybe* Republicans in the Senate can convince Trump to resign. He can claim the country doesn't deserve him (something we can all agree on) or that he wants to spend more time with his family or that he wants to improve his golf game. It doesn't matter; just get the fuck out.

[defacto7]

2. Such has always been the Russian plan.

[qazplm135]

3. if they can't wait two more years

that's as much on them as us.

Seriously, we aren't the first country in the world to stumble into an idiot leader for a short period of time. Course-correction will come soon enough.

[roamer65]

4. The EU needs to convene a constitutional convention.

It needs to become a federal republic.

The Holy Roman Empire reborn.

The solution for Europe is MORE Europe.

[a la izquierda]

5. I have friends all over Europe.

Those living in the smaller countries are terrified about what could happen. Most of their parents either lived through the war or knew the depredations of it.

[smirkymonkey]

6. Do they blame us or do they see this as something that was coming even before

Trump came on the scene?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. Russia would love to be EU's single source of natural gas.

It would be such a lovely leash in Putin's hand.