Re:The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months
by pgeorgi on Sunday December 11, 2022 @05:30PM
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When Trump says "we are committed to maintaining our independence from the encroachment of expansionist foreign powers", I'd be smirking, too.
(and check the videos: they only started laughing once he got past that sentence)
You're right that this was a pretty easy call made by tons of people for a very long time before & after Trump. Also, GP is a little off, they didn't actually call him an 'idiot', they just smirked and said that they knew better:
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/09/25/trump-accuse...
> German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas could be seen smirking alongside his colleagues.
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> Trump’s attacks haven’t changed that calculus. After his July remarks, Merkel responded that she may be in a better position to judge her country’s dependence than the current U.S. president.
> “I’ve experienced myself a part of Germany controlled by the Soviet Union, and I’m very happy today that we are united in freedom,” she said at the time.