“Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit,” says Yahweh Sabaoth.
(Zechariah 4: 6)
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CNN—Trump opens NATO summit with blistering criticism of Germany:
President Donald Trump came out brawling in his first public comments here ahead of NATO’s annual summit, accusing a close US ally of being “a captive of Russia” and all-but ordering members of the alliance to increase their defense spending “immediately.”
Trump’s provocative comments — aimed at Germany — at the outset of the NATO summit are sure to amplify the sense of unease among the United States’ closest European allies. Their concerns had already set in ahead of Trump’s arrival on the continent, following weeks during which the US President has increasingly and vociferously aired out his grievances against many of them.
Trump is set to meet with both German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday, according to press secretary Sarah Sanders.
The US President signaled that he would take that approach in Brussels as he departed the White House and via mid-air tweets aboard Air Force One, but the US President’s direct criticism of a close NATO ally — Germany — and his ongoing airing of grievances on European soil took his criticisms up a notch.
The blistering comments are setting up another jarring contrast as Trump is set to cap off meetings in Belgium and the United Kingdom by holding a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has largely been spared of Trump’s diatribes.
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SnyderTalk Comment:
Most European leaders are hard to figure out.
- They get themselves into messes that they can’t handle and beg the U.S. to pull their chestnuts out of the fire. World Wars I and II are great examples.
- They pay their people not to work and expect U.S. taxpayers to pay for their defense. Stated simply, they aren’t forced to choose between guns and butter, because they buy the butter and we pay for the guns.
- They import problems that they can’t handle, problems that are tearing their countries apart, and criticize the U.S. for not doing the same thing. At this point, the Islamization of Europe is so well-entrenched that changing the status quo will require something very much like civil war. When it happens, who do you think they will beg to bail them out?
- They resent being called “freeloaders”, but that’s what they are.
- They think they are superior in every way imaginable despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
I agree with President Trump. Vladimir Putin is easier to deal with than most European leaders because he has some sense.
CNN and others in the establishment media like to mock and ridicule President Trump for telling the truth. I wish other presidents had done it a long time ago.
We elected Donald Trump because he says what he means, and he does what he says he will do. That’s not politics as usual.
European leaders had better listen up. The president’s message to them is unmistakably clear. If they think he’s bluffing, they will get an attitude adjustment.
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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)
