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Le Pen's odds of winning have been steadily rising in the past months and thus the EUs potential to disband increasing.
I'm a Belgium native and I think what the EU headquartered there has done is disgusting.
The EU bureaucrats are highly overpaid and set it up so they all pay a special low tax rate. Then they force so much immigration on the country that it loses its identity.
Le Pen's odds of winning have been steadily rising in the past months and thus the EUs potential to disband increasing.
I'm a Belgium native and I think what the EU headquartered there has done is disgusting.
The EU bureaucrats are highly overpaid and set it up so they all pay a special low tax rate. Then they force so much immigration on the country that it loses its identity.
Good news, Pres. Trump is doing it the right way. Sending the signals and saying the words that will get these people to open their eyes and do the right things by their people. It's time for a shake-up in Europe as well as the US. Better now, and in this way before it's too late. If the message sinks in, the future will look more encouraging.
So you've said the U.K., and you and others have said Japan. Why Japan and why the U.K.? What makes them useful? And can we get by with just 2?
UK has decent military and has already rejected globalism to some extent. Japan has an advanced military, technology, and strategic position, and our interests are aligned against China in East Asia.
The European Union President calls Trump a threat - up there with China, ISIS, and Russia.
"Today we are dealing with three threats, which have previously not occurred, at least not on such a scale."
"The first threat, an external one, is related to the new geopolitical situation in the world and around Europe. An increasingly, let us call it, assertive China, especially on the seas, Russia's aggressive policy towards Ukraine and its neighbours, wars, terror and anarchy in the Middle East and in Africa, with radical Islam playing a major role, as well as worrying declarations by the new American administration all make our future highly unpredictable.
For the first time in our history, in an increasingly multipolar external world, so many are becoming openly anti-European, or Eurosceptic at best. Particularly the change in Washington puts the European Union in a difficult situation; with the new administration seeming to put into question the last 70 years of American foreign policy."
"We cannot surrender to those who want to weaken or invalidate the Transatlantic bond, without which global order and peace cannot survive. We should remind our American friends of their own motto:
United we stand, divided we fall"
The EU and it's leader is under enormous pressure since Brexit and of course various financial crisis.
Trump, is a perfect foil to blame because it follows the age old practice of blaming someone that can't vote and he represents nationalism which is shaking the EU to it's core now.
Funny to note the guy is blaming "radical islam" as well.
Basically, it's a cry for help that the US and it's citizens are getting tired of footing the bill for European protection and foreign involvment.
Russia is a shadow of their former self, nukes are still deterrents so um, what exactly is the purpose of all those US bases in Europe?
The US has already done so. So what is your point? We WISH we had the economy of Germany and I'm sure all those "forgotten men" Trump speaks of could use the 5 weeks vacation, health care, sick days, 36 hour weeks and other such benefits of Deutschland.
Germany is simply being gracious trying to keep a coalition together - one which they largely finance...somewhat like CA, NY, MA, etc are doing the same thing in the USA.
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