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I will call your '2014 Obama' and raise you a '1981 Ronald Reagan'. The Americans have been trying to push Germany away from Russia literally for decades. [1]
by jasmer 4y ago
I will call your '2014 Obama' and raise you a '1981 Ronald Reagan'.
The Americans have been trying to push Germany away from Russia literally for decades.
[1] https://www.vocaleurope.eu/how-russian-pipelines-heat-up-tensions-from-reagans-battle-over-yamal-to-the-european-row-on-nord-stream-2/ https://www.vocaleurope.eu/how-russian-pipelines-heat-up-ten...
- landemva 4y agoAnd Germans snickered when Trump said the same in 2018. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/09/25/trump-accused-germany-becoming-totally-dependent-russian-energy-un-germans-just-smirked https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/09/25/trump-accuse...
- jasmer 4y agoIndeed - but that's also an example of how someone who has destroyed their credibility can't be effective. Nobody in the world is going to take Trump seriously for good reason, because he doesn't have any integrity even if you parse down a lot of what he is saying and remove the chicanery much of it is reasonable, it's not going to go anywhere. That said, it likely didn't matter the Euros were not going to listen anyhow.