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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts) Mon Jul 3, 2017, 04:08 PM Jul 2017

U.S. status as Germany's "most important friend" has been downgraded, thanks to Trump.

In their campaign program for the German election, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives have dropped the term “friend” in describing the relationship with the United States.

Four years ago, the joint program of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), referred to the United States as Germany’s “most important friend” outside of Europe.

The 2013 program also described the “friendship” with Washington as a “cornerstone” of Germany’s international relations and talked about strengthening transatlantic economic ties through the removal of trade barriers.

But the words “friend” and “friendship” are missing from the latest election program - entitled “For a Germany in which we live well and happily” - which Merkel and CSU leader Horst Seehofer presented on Monday ahead of a Sept. 24 election.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/merkels-party-no-longer-describing-us-as-a-friend_us_595a742de4b0da2c7324de4a?obg&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

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U.S. status as Germany's "most important friend" has been downgraded, thanks to Trump. (Original Post) Miles Archer Jul 2017 OP

Beware stephensolomita Jul 2017 #1

Remember how righties kept saying Obama was lowering our standing in the world? ck4829 Jul 2017 #2

stephensolomita

(91 posts)

1. Beware

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Mon Jul 3, 2017, 04:44 PM

Jul 2017

According to Business Insider America's GDP is lower that that of China and the European Union. The belief that we are so economically powerful we can do whatever we want is foolish indeed. Yes, we have the guns. But they have the money.

ck4829

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2. Remember how righties kept saying Obama was lowering our standing in the world?

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Mon Jul 3, 2017, 04:49 PM

Jul 2017

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Ha, doesn't matter now! We need to be friends with Russia so we can go to war with Muslims, and they don't care how many countries they will upset in the process!

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