BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel is urging European Union nations to stick together in the face of new uncertainty over the United States and other challenges.
Merkel said Sunday at a campaign event in Bavaria that “the times in which we can fully count on others are somewhat over, as I have experienced in the past few days.”
The comments follow President Donald Trump saying he needed more time to decide if the U.S. would continue backing a key climate accord.
Trump’s stance had led Merkel to describe the just-ended G-7 talks on climate change as “unsatisfactory.”
The dpa news agency reports that in her campaign remarks, the German leader emphasized the need for friendly relations with the U.S., Britain and Russia, but added: “We Europeans must really take our destiny into our own hands.”
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I gotta walk myseself and the pups, but,
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/868836365139668992
Thanks, Trump voters. Thanks for thinking we had to “get somebody new in there.” Thanks for wondering how it could be worse. This is just the beginning of how it could be worse. We’ve got allies swimming away for dear life like we’re a sinking ship. Thank you, thank you, thank you ever so much.
To his supporters, this is what “success” looks like. They’ve never had much regard for those effete quiche eating, gun restricting, healthcare providing champions of human rights. They fetishize Putin’s macho thuggish Russia as it comports with their world view.
This is awful for America, but, as you stated, will have no effect on his supporters, and therefore, no effect on his behavior.
They wouldn’t let him just walk in and set up golf courses. So he says fuck the world. That’s really all there is here.
Face it people, Trump is being ruled solely by Putin!
I think Trump remains on Putin’s payroll!