{"id":397110,"date":"2019-02-24T23:14:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T22:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/merkel-draws-the-line-against-trump\/"},"modified":"2019-02-24T23:14:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T22:14:02","slug":"merkel-draws-the-line-against-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/merkel-draws-the-line-against-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkel Draws the Line Against Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has turned the corner on relations with the United States. Her speech at the Munich Security Conference should be considered Germany\u2019s divorce filing from the U.S.-led post-WWII institutional order.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s clear that to me now that Merkel\u2019s priorities for what is left of her term in office are as follows:<\/p>\n

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  1. Carve out an independent path for EU foreign policy from the U.S. through the creation of an EU army, obviating the need for NATO and\u2026<\/li>\n
  2. End U.S. occupation of Germany.<\/li>\n
  3. Secure Germany\u2019s energy future, which also secures its political future as the leader of the European Union, by stitching together the continent with Russian energy arteries \u2014 Nordstream 2, Turkstream.<\/li>\n
  4. Manage the shift away from NATO as a controlling force in Europe\u2019s relationship with Russia which doesn\u2019t serve Europe\u2019s long term purposes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Merkel will play both sides of the game for as long as she can but Trump and his merry band of Neocon psychotics are determined to stop Nordstream 2. They realize pipelines like these represent near permanent connections between Europe and Russia which the deadens Trump\u2019s desire to maintain the empire through controlling the flow and price of energy.
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    For Trump there are three areas he is pushing Merkel. As I noted in my latest piece for Strategic Culture Foundation:<\/p>\n

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    Trump\u2019s pressuring Germany over the Nordstream 2 pipeline, withdrawing from the JCPOA and increasing NATO funding all have a common theme\u2026
    \u2026\u00a0Trump is trying to make Germany\u2019s economy uncompetitive by raising the cost of imported energy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    This is obvious when we look at the US\u2019s opposition to Nordstream…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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    German Chancellor Angela Merkel has turned the corner on relations with the United States. Her speech at the Munich Security Conference should be considered Germany\u2019s divorce filing from the U.S.-led post-WWII institutional order. It\u2019s clear that to me now that Merkel\u2019s priorities for what is left of her term in office are as follows: Carve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-397110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}