BERLIN — German political leaders have reacted with alarm to U.S. President Donald Trump’s bombshell announcement that his administration will conduct peace negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the head of European leaders.

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    11 months ago

    America is an enemy to its former allies including its citizens who chose this and continue to allow it.

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      The Germans are big babies crying about nothing. If Putin had trouble defeating Ukraine, how will Russia defeat NATO?

      The Germans just want the US to stop asking them to pay for NATO membership, as Trump now expects all allies to pay their share for NATO military spending. They’re using Putin as an excuse to weasel out of rising costs. If they can’t afford it, they should tell the US that they want to leave NATO.

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    11 months ago

    I didnt ask for any of this let alone vote for this. Its sad the fail safes we have to prevent this are just sitting around letting it all happen. This timeline sucks.

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    More “usual type” euro politicians will waddle over to trump to try to kiss his ass for military protection.

    That time is over. Dump clearly signalled his intent to make Europe spend more on defense because he’s not going to protect them anymore.

    Why the fuck are they trying to beg america then? They don’t understand the message that’s clear as day?

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    “Volodomir, yeah hi, I spoke to Vlad, great guy, amazing, so smart, Vlad tells me, and he’s being really reasonable here, so smart, the smartest man Russia, not as smart as me but definitely a high IQ, Vlad says he’s still got all the files I sent him in 2018 and he has the video of me getting showered in sweet delicious golden water from one of his favourite girlfriends, and that his social media team is very good, so good, the best in the world, mine are better, but his are very good, they have these farms, state of the art, with cows and chickens, but also phones and smart guys and they can post so quickly, lots of guys, lots of phones. So anyway, Vlad says Ukraine is part of Russia and that he’s doing a great job looking after it and I think you need to let him do his job. If you’re going to keep pretending Ukraine isn’t Russia then the US is going to have to give Vlad a hand with this problem.”