Turnip sends Pence to Munich
 

"MUNICH — An annual security conference where Western allies have long forged united fronts erupted Saturday into a full-scale assault on the Trump administration’s foreign policy. European leaders, would-be Democratic challengers and even the president’s Republican backers took the floor to rebuke the president’s go-it-alone approach.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel — habitually cautious about provoking Trump — led the charge, unleashing a stinging, point-by-point takedown of the administration’s tendency to treat its allies as adversaries.

The speech appeared to provide much-needed catharsis. Trump’s antagonistic behavior has bred two years of accumulated grievance in much of Europe but has been met with few substantive answers on how to effectively challenge it.

Merkel accused the United States of strengthening Iran and Russia with its plans for a speedy military pullout from Syria. She expressed shock that the Trump administration would deem BMWs made in South Carolina a threat to national security.

And she lamented that the U.S.-led global order “has collapsed into many tiny parts.”

The crowd gave the German chancellor an extended standing ovation — a rare display at the normally button-down Munich Security Conference. The customarily reserved Merkel beamed as she took her seat. Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and a top adviser, looked on from the crowd, stone-faced.

The speech, and the response, underscored just how far apart the United States has drifted from its traditional allies during Trump’s term — and how little Europeans care about concealing their contempt.

At last year’s conference, U.S. allies in Europe were reluctant to voice out loud the depths of their concerns with the state of the transatlantic relationship, said Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group.

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"Merkel devoted much of her speech to an item-by-item rundown of areas where the U.S. and Europe disagree, seeking to refute the Trump administration position on each one. She appeared particularly aggrieved by U.S. threats to raise tariffs on German cars — justified on the grounds that they endanger U.S. national security.
The idea, she noted dryly, was “a bit of a shock” given that BMW has a major manufacturing center in South Carolina." WP

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.e2a0b46e2595

If Pence and Prez Turnip think they can push Chancellor Merkel around, they've got another think coming. Prep school peckerwoods on display.

Pence, Tweedledee to the Tweedledum!


Definitely not the A team, or B somewhere in to the sub F be my guess. Being generous in my late night ramblings.

What an embarrassment and fodder for anti American sentiment we have created here and now.

2020 is the point of no return. Either America wakes up or ...

By the time America finally wakes up it will be too late my friends.

Does anyone really think for a moment the party in search of their own "Dear Leader" will let anything like Democracy and a Constitution effect them?

Merkel is being slick here. She is accommodating to
Russia and Iran yet she is criticizing Trump re Russia and Iran in Syria.

Is she prepared to send German troops on a long term mission to Syria?

Does she intend to stop Nordstream 2?

How about some forgiveness of debt for the Greeks to whom the Germans sold a lot of arms, especially Leopard tanks.

Merkel should be observed for action, not for noise.

Probably she is still mad with US Intel for hacking her phone.

She's being rational here, putting forth facts, something sorely missing from the current US administration, sadly.

European leaders are finally calling out Donny's idiocy and incompetence; will Repubes soon do the same? When will our real National Emergency, Trumpism, end?

Hey Whell! Please ‘splain how BMW, per your Dear Leader, is a “threat to national security!” Take your time, we’ll wait...