The German government has announced that they will fall short of US
demands to increase military spending to 2 percent of GDP by 2024, and after lowering that estimate to 1.5 percent, are now saying they expect to fall short of that. US officials, who have been demanding massive hikes in spending for years, are outraged.
US Ambassador Richard Grenell has been in the position of pushing US diktats to Berlin, lashing Germany for moving away from “already unacceptable commitments to military readiness,” and calling it worrying for all NATO members.
As of 2019, Germany has the second highest military spending in NATO,
and with no enemies anywhere near their territory, many German officials
question why they even need to spend this much. With much of US policy
centered on increasing arms exports worldwide, more spending in any
country is considered generally desirable within the administration.
But Ambassador Grenell’s attacks on German government budgets, following
so closely behind his demands that Germany scrap a major natural gas
pipeline or face US sanctions, is not sitting well with German
officials, and a lot of MPs are critical.
Wolfgang Kubicki, the deputy speaker of Germany’s parliament, was
particularly critical of Grenell, urging the foreign ministry to
immediately declare him persona non grata and expel him from Germany
outright, saying he “acts like a high commissioner of an occupying power,” and that Germany’s tolerance must have limits.
Well Grinnel actually is the front man for the occupation, maybe NOT the High Commissioner, but certainly the conduit for the demands of the occupation forces doing what he can to bend the German State to the U.S.’s will.
Doesn’t the whole episode borders on Farce. It’s as though this Wolfgang Kubicki does not seem to grasp that Germany STILL IS occupied. All those troops, all those foreign troops, all the bases….. Is he delusional? His call as the deputy speaker of Germany’s parliament, was particularly critical of Grenell, urging the foreign ministry to immediately declare him persona non grata and expel him from Germany outright, God only knows what sort of response such a brain dead mutiny could precipitate in Rambo Trump’s (TM) “Circus of Dissonance”. Maybe roll out Bolton in the clown car driving around the Reichstag with the flag of a geometric former German symbol of glory, greatness & power. Can you imagine?
German and US skirmish has been on going for a while. Trump is doing great job if pissing Germans off, so no amount of sweat globalist talk can later get them to follow American “democracy” installing via bombs civilizing missions. But these ade early days, and Germany still has a large neocon brotherhood in Germany insuring Germany is tied by apronstrings to the American mothership. German “liberals” are still strong, and any thought of departing slightly from American “leadership” would be denounced as Hitler’s second comming. Even as innocuous a party as Alternative for Germany is demonized. But continued Trump’s belicosity, along with liberals finding Hitlers everywhere, just might turn German public oppinion towards a more common sense course.
What an insult! The US should respond by removing all US troops from Germany right away!
Once Germany faces east, it’ll be lights out for the rest of the Europe.