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    Quote Originally Posted by enhanced_deficit View Post
    Some kinda 4-D chess going on here?
    Or neocoons owners pressured him to flip flop?


    Had heard him say multiple times that would be great if US and Russia got along.
    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    He is using their own anti-Russia propaganda against them, the goal here is to break NATO and the EU.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
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    Interesting. So his statements are untrue propaganada in retaliation for Germany's propaganda?

    That could qualify to be 4-D Chess.


    July 11, 2018
    Trump lashes Germany over gas pipeline deal, calls it Russia's 'captive'

    BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump launched a sharp public attack on Germany on Wednesday for supporting a Baltic Sea gas pipeline deal with Russia, saying Berlin had become “a captive to Russia” and he criticized it for failing to raise defense spending more.

    “When Germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with Russia,” Trump said to Stoltenberg. “We’re supposed to be guarding against Russia and Germany goes out and pays billions and billions of dollars a year to Russia.
    “We’re protecting Germany, we’re protecting France, we’re protecting all of these countries. And then numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with Russia where they’re paying billions of dollars into the coffers of Russia.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-n...-idUSKBN1K10VI

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    Quote Originally Posted by enhanced_deficit View Post
    Interesting. So his statements are untrue propaganada in retaliation for Germany's propaganda?

    That could qualify to be 4-D Chess.


    July 11, 2018
    Trump lashes Germany over gas pipeline deal, calls it Russia's 'captive'

    BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump launched a sharp public attack on Germany on Wednesday for supporting a Baltic Sea gas pipeline deal with Russia, saying Berlin had become “a captive to Russia” and he criticized it for failing to raise defense spending more.

    “When Germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with Russia,” Trump said to Stoltenberg. “We’re supposed to be guarding against Russia and Germany goes out and pays billions and billions of dollars a year to Russia.
    “We’re protecting Germany, we’re protecting France, we’re protecting all of these countries. And then numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with Russia where they’re paying billions of dollars into the coffers of Russia.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-n...-idUSKBN1K10VI
    It is not entirely untrue, Germany has positioned itself to be ever more dependent on Russia while expecting us to protect it from the Russian threat it claims exists and using protectionism and NATO to plunder our economy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    It is not entirely untrue, Germany has positioned itself to be ever more dependent on Russia while expecting us to protect it from the Russian threat it claims exists and using protectionism and NATO to plunder our economy.
    When you phrase it like this, starts to sound logical.

    By same token, seems like Germany is also finding logic flaws in Trump/Ivanka's Syria policy. Wonder if this played any role in today's public lashing at Germany.

    German Parliament Declares US Military Presence in Syria Illegal

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    Thing is , who cares about the germans ? No reason for us too .
    Do something Danke

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    Quote Originally Posted by oyarde View Post
    Thing is , who cares about the germans ? No reason for us too .
    It isn't about the German's as much as it is about the German's wanting us to defend them from Russia while they make themselves more reliant on Russia. Counterproductive.

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    He's poking through their hypocrisy, on the eve of his summit in Helsinki.



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    Peaceful relations thru trade?

    Don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows

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    Trump being Trump. That's all. He says all sorts of things. And later says the exact opposite.
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