What is wrong with "Europe First?"
Europe First is a threat to USA national security, right?
Tweety ignores Allies wishes so why should any Ally work with Tweety? Tell me what Tweety offers other than threats and creating world divided by wealth and the color of your skin.
The United States of America is becoming a pariah, threatening and bullying countries to comply with Tweety's "rules" in a win-lose deal. It is madness!
Americans tolerate, and Tweety supporters normalize Tweety's Administration treating people with constant and unpredictable nastiness, crude, meat-hook "solutions" to age old issues, and immoral, unethical behavior.
The latest example of a divisive President, of lower standards of morality and civility = The insult to McCain as he is dying is simply a new sick level. Tweety and his surrogates thrive on a lack of respect and civility in discussions of issues and challenges with other nations has gone too far.
The chickens have come home to roost, you get back what you pay out.
American's who like "plain-speaking," who want to avoid "Political Correctness," who ultimately choose to be rude and blunt to the level of just nasty, you have become irrelevant for your incoherence. The World does not need you. Surprised?!
Your strident, aggressive way of communicating your "inner selves," your true ugly "American-ness," is a sickness of belligerence and arrogance beyond the pale.
The United States of America has become the bully on the block, a nation to be feared and hated, and ostracized where possible. Whether America will ever be invited back into the family of civilized Western nations is yet to be told in the distant, non-Tweety era.
Tweety has not made America "great again" as we were never "great" in any sense. Tweety has "Made America Hated" again when America had several opportunities to make up the horrible things we have done to many countries in this world. Even Donald Trump admitted "We have done terrible things" during his campaign to be elected President.
The United States is like a Banana Republic to the rest of the Western World. The leaders of Canada, Europe, Mexico, China, and Russia either laugh at Tweety, or take advantage of him in ways he could never understand.
Tweety has disrespected our border sharing nations, Canada and Mexico, for what he calls the benefit of the United States.
Tweety has practiced kleptocracy, stealing from the US Treasury directly, or using his position as President to enrich Trump Properties. Tweety's Cabinet is a kleptocratic Cabinet, stealing tax dollars for their benefits, and disdaining ethics at every turn.
The result of the distrust Tweety has created is driving Europe to China and Russia.
"Putin, Merkel Hold Talks In Sochi On Iran, Ukraine, Nord Stream 2"
by Radio Free Europe 18 May 2018
"Russian President Vladimir Putin has held wide-ranging talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel over the Ukraine conflict, Europe's response to the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, and the construction of a pipeline bringing gas from Russia to Germany.
Putin said Russian natural gas may still flow to neighboring Ukraine even after the completion of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project, which will carry Russian gas to Germany, bypassing Ukraine."
And why shouldn't Merkel work with Putin for "Germany First?"
"Germany has been at the forefront of the European Union's push for sanctions against Russia since Moscow seized Ukraine's Crimea region in 2014 and threw its support behind separatists in eastern Ukraine, helping start a war that has killed more than 10,300 people.
However, despite taking a hard line against Russia in recent years, Merkel has defended the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project, which carries Russian natural gas to Germany but bypasses Ukraine, arguing that Germany badly needs to secure its gas supplies.
The $11 billion project would double the amount of natural gas Russia can funnel to Western Europe from newly tapped reserves in Siberia."
Then the US steps in, as Tweety would, to try to scare Europe and Germany to make them stop supporting the Russian project. Obviously the US wants Europe and Germany to depend on the United States for energy needs.
"U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary Sandra Oudkirk, an energy policy expert at the State Department, said on a visit to Berlin May 17 that the United States opposes the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline and could impose sanctions on it because of its potential to increase Russia's "malign influence" in Europe.
"We are exerting as much persuasive power as we possibly can" to stop the project through diplomatic means first, she said, but she noted that Congress has given the government authority to impose sanctions on such Russian pipeline projects if necessary."
If I was advising Europe and Germany I would remind them of all Tweety has done so far to underscore how sensible it is to NOT TRUST THE UNITED STATES FOR ANYTHING.
The short list of reasons includes:
1, Tweety's America First as meaning every other country comes second in a Tweety's real-estate based, win-lose/zero sum game of economics,
2. saying everyone needs to spend more on defense under Tweety's version of the NATO agreement (2% was a GOAL, not a mandate!),
3. disdaining and dropping out of the Paris Accord, calling the people who signed those who agreed to the Paris Accord STUPIF; problem is that every country in the WORLD agreed to it! Who is the stupid one?,
4. breaking Iran Agreement, saying it was a very bad deal despite the fact Britain, France, Germany, China, and Russia signed up to it so as to delay Iran's nuclear program, PS - why would North Korea trust Tweety to keep his word in ANY deal he negotiates?
5. Tweety is rolling out tariffs, starting trade wars, and threatening everyone with sanctions who does not do what he says they must do,
6. Tweety foments hate and cruelty for immigrants across the planet as well as home; Tweety breeds hate!
In fact, German even mentions the Iran Deal (an Island of Cooperation - a concept over Tweety's head; Over John Bolton's head too) when they talk of the gas deal. Putin chimes in with the idea the United States is against the gas deal so the United States can make money selling gas to Europe.
""I think he is promoting his business interest to sell U.S. liquefied natural gas on the European market," said the Russian president.
With Europe's largest economy, Germany is the world's largest importer of natural gas and it is planning to increase reliance on gas to generate power as it phases out its nuclear power plants.
The German government has said that at a time of strong disagreements between Russia and the West over Ukraine and other matters, Berlin views the pipeline as well as a landmark 2015 nuclear deal with Iran as "islands of cooperation" with Moscow."
"Putin says Russian gas shipments via Ukraine may continue"
By FRANK JORDANS Associated Press May 18, 2018
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article211404894.html
"SOCHI, RussiaRussia's President Vladimir Putin said Friday that gas supplies to Europe via Ukraine may continue even after the launch of a new prospective Germany-bound pipeline under the Baltic Sea.
The question of whether Ukraine would be frozen out of future Russian gas deliveries is seen as one of the main stumbling blocks for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project through the Baltic Sea. Several European countries object to the plan, including Ukraine, and the United States has warned that it could endanger Europe's energy security.
Speaking after talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Russian city of Sochi, Putin said Russia has no intention of halting supplies of gas to the EU nations across Ukraine's territory after the launch of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. He said supplies via Ukraine, which relies heavily on transit fees for gas, will continue if they are economically expedient"
