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German Diplomat Who Mocked Trump At UN Suddenly Silent As President's 'Russian Energy' Warning Comes True
2022-09-09
[ET via Zero] One of the German diplomats who snickered when then-President Donald Trump said Germany would "become totally dependent on Russian energy" didn’t respond to a question on whether his views have changed as rising energy costs amidst the war in Ukraine seem to prove Trump right.

Trump made the remarks during a speech to the United Nations General Assembly in Sept. 2018. Trump said during the same speech: "Reliance on a single foreign supplier can leave a nation vulnerable to extortion and intimidation."
Posted by:Besoeker

#11  So I guess when the German Energy Director when asked about this, said that business can close and not go out of business because of the lack of revenue; hibernate if you will. Perhaps EC can correct or elaborate?

Have we not literally just spent 2 years proving that wrong?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-09-09 15:14  

#10  Re #2 concerning unforgiveness...

For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Matthew 6:14-15.


Posted by: Vespasian Glease8381   2022-09-09 14:53  

#9  They all shook their heads in disbelief and laughed at us. Laughed.

That was no laugh. They were sneering.
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-09-09 13:38  

#8  Maybe because it would be a 3 year jail term for turning on the PA system?

Has anyone tried getting Santa Claus downtown, thumping him, and hauling him off to prison?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-09-09 10:26  

#7  More than three million Turks live in Germany, and mosques are more active than churches.
Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672   2022-09-09 07:45  

#6  Oktoberfest is starting next week ;-)
Posted by: European Conservative   2022-09-09 07:24  

#5  /\ If we could only visit St. Bartholomew's today EC, I would buy both the schnitzel and the beer
~<(;-)

Posted by: Besoeker   2022-09-09 06:34  

#4  Tell me all about it.

Posted by: European Conservative   2022-09-09 06:25  

#3  /\ Oh, it wasn't one German. It was the whole country.

Without questions, a stunningly beautiful country.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-09-09 06:22  

#2  Oh, it wasn't one German. It was the whole country. They all shook their heads in disbelief and laughed at us. Laughed.

Oh, that burned. That's something we will neither forget nor forgive. We'll remember how our "friends" in Europe laughed at us when we told them to take their security seriously.

And I get it, right? It was supremely satisfying to tell the Americans to fuck off. Especially Trump. If there's one thing Europeans do well, it's self-righteousness and self-satisfaction. After all, they were living after the end of history. They had the idiot Americans to pay for their defense and Nordstream 2 from Russia to pay for their industry. What could possibly go wrong?

Maybe the clever Germans can figure out a way to heat their houses this winter with their smug sense of satisfaction. They've certainly got a surplus of it.
Posted by: Sonny de Medici5342   2022-09-09 05:24  

#1  REMIX - ‘Without energy, no economy can run’ – German companies warn of disaster as electricity and gas tap are ‘turned off’
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-09-09 03:15  

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