German Chancellor Merz says US leadership ‘lost,’ calls for repair of relations

https://thehill.com/policy/international/5737485-us-leadership-challenged-merz/

32 Comments

  1. GaddockTeegFunPolice on

    Merz is playing ‘hard to get ‘ which he is definitely not but it might work with the current us administration

  2. And he’d be correct because there’s no reasonable doubt about it. America is being run by a convicted felon who is also a loose cannon, unfortunately. So there’s that…

  3. Merz is such a useless idiot. Carney has the right idea, Macron has the right idea, and here is Merz playing puppy dog that has been kicked so often it can’t but help and show weakness. Does Merz not understand that Trump does not react to weakness? That weakness only emboldens Trump more? What a bafoon, glad I did not vote for him.

  4. Just stop, move on and stop trying to go back where the us leadership clearly isnt interested in going.

  5. KookyLight9218 on

    Merz just says stuff and won’t act on anything.
    Even in his speech roughly 5 sentences later he rowed back and said essentially “but we love you please trade with us 🥹”

  6. Lost — also: treacherous, unhinged, incredibly stupid, pedophile apologist, and I could go on…

  7. The way to repair relations is to get rid of Trump and ALL his dumb dumbs working beneath him.

    Trump term 1 had people in his government willing to fact check him and block his erratic ideas. Biggest example being Pence validating the election against Trump’s demands.

    Contrast that to JD. He’s 100% be willing to deem that election as a fraudulent election.

  8. Rough-Party257 on

    The call is coming from inside the house over here. We don’t have anyone sane left at the helm available to take Germany’s call currently. Please leave your name and number and we will hope that this changes after the midterms. 🙏🏼🤞

  9. Are we allowed to shit talk that child rapist named trump here? It would appear his accomplis ghislaine maxwell is still fucking listed as a mod here

  10. Not much can be done with the Pedo/Billionaire alliance running the new American fascsit empire. They don’t want to negogiate. Their goals are not economic or cooperative, they just want to dominate, enslave, maintain the massive wealth gap, and continue to rape children.

  11. TiredMicrowave on

    It’s going to be a long road. Trust is easy to break and incredibly hard to rebuild, especially when the geopolitical landscape has shifted so much in the last few years. Europe is finally realizing they can’t just rely on the US being ‘predictable’ anymore.

  12. Unfortunately America has no recall mechanism, and the President is a rubber stamp for the reactionary party in control of Congress, so they have a vested interest in not invoking the 25th amendment.

  13. Rambo1stBloodPT2 on

    IF i remember correctly, German leadership also was very very lost for a while, but you guys had a pretty easy road back to good faith with the world so i’m not that worried.

    do Japan and Germany think we all forgot?

  14. Henry Kissinger once quipped that “it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.”

  15. Merz has one of the lowest approval ratings of all time. Nearly twice as low as Trump.

    This guy shouldn’t be saying anything. He’s a disgrace.

  16. Schlarfus_McNarfus on

    Gonna have to refresh our leadership and tule of law entirely before any foreign relations can improve, simple as that.

  17. As a a Californian I’m wondering if I still need to pay federal taxes if this administration is just going to withhold congressionally-appointed funds as retribution for not voting red.

    Something about taxation without representation. Wasn’t there like a war fought over this?

  18. 1990’s: “We don’t negotiate with terrorists”
    2020’s: “We don’t negotiate with Paedos”

  19. Sorry Germany, I promise we do wanna be your friend. Our asshole step-dad just won’t let us right now.

  20. Man, you know things are crazy when Germany is telling the US that their leadership is lost.

    I think they know a thing or two of what to look for now.