Germany has reversed course on its 2014 pledge to NATO to spend two percent of GDP on defense, according to comments made by Angela Merkel on Tuesday.
Merkel, while speaking at a panel discussion organized by Ostsee Zeitung local newspaper in the Baltic Sea town of Stralsund on Tuesday, said, “We said we want to achieve 1.5% by 2024. And that is our common will,” Reuters reported.
“And then we still have a lot of work to do for the next few years,” Merkel added.
At a NATO conference in 2014 in Wales, member nations pledged to reach two percent of GDP spent on defense by 2024, giving the nations 10 years to make such a change.
However, Merkel said NATO members agreed to work “toward 2%” and said Germany is in compliance with that pledge.
“So this means in the direction of 2%, and we will continue to go in this direction also after 2024,” Merkel said.
But the United States has a different view of Merkel’s comments.
U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell told Fox News on Wednesday, “The Wales Pledge was made in 2014 and it gave a 10-year runway to get to 2 percent by 2024.”
“It is actually offensive to assume that the U.S. taxpayer must continue to pay to have 50,000-plus Americans in Germany, but the Germans get to spend their surplus on domestic programs,” Grenell posted on the embassy’s official Twitter account Friday.
>German economy goes to shit >CutUnnecessaryExpenses.jpg >Haven't funded NATO for decades, it's fine to cut >Need to claim future growth to keep the charade going >ImportAllShitskins.png >The future of the "German" economy is bright >Trump 2020 >Shitskins continue to destroy Germany >Populous gets made >NATO help our people have gone Nazi again >Trump keks his was though his second term
Caleb Powell
Isn't our economy going to shit aswell because we are importing shitskins and spics?
Adam Bennett
Yes However I'm firmly in the camp that there will be an event in the next few months that will assure a Trump win. After November 3rd 2020 the big moves start to be made and the groundwork laid out in this term will have made it possible.
Isaac Gonzalez
Fuck Germany. Kick them from NATO. Let Russia fucking have them. That is, if Putin even wants your sinking ship of a country. Has Germany ever made a treaty and actually honored it?
Nolan Perry
>However, Merkel said NATO members agreed to work “toward 2%” and said Germany is in compliance with that pledge. Such a Korinthenkackerei to weasel out of it.
>“It is actually offensive to assume that the U.S. taxpayer must continue to pay to have 50,000-plus Americans in Germany” But I love this kike-loving faggot's kvetching.
>Fuck Germany. Kick them from NATO. No, please don't kick us out of your occupational organization, Trump.
William Diaz
>German economy goes to shit I'm not sorry to interrupt your smugness, but that will only happen in 2040 when all our workers are in pension.
Funny enough, our government is not even trying to stop that process by forcing people to work until 70, they can't do that because they already increased the age of pension for boomers; they can't risk offending their voterbase any further.
Well, it doesn't matter, because when shit hits the fan I am prepared and my kids will be as well.
The good thing is, all the shitskins and gopniks, the liberal arts students and wagecucks are concentrated in 6 metropolitan areas. For anyone on the countryside it's just a little waiting time until the market collapses.
I would love nothing more than that, but he seems just as Jewed as any other president/kike puppet. Why would he ever go against our Zionist Overlords and start serving the American (white) people? Why haven't you lost hope in Democracy (as we have it) yet?
Justin Powell
>being forced to pay to defend the US of fucking A I hope there are fewer and fewer idiotic nations doing that.
Jose Lee
Do you seriously think those faggots will be allowed to start drawing from those pensions en mass? There's no way your economy makes it another 20 years only for the internal issues to finally take it out. External pressures will cause the collapse to happen faster than it would have occurred in a vacuum.
Gavin Stewart
>2040 We got a couple months at best.
Joseph Davis
>“It is actually offensive to assume that the U.S. taxpayer must continue to pay to have 50,000-plus Americans in Germany, but the Germans get to spend their surplus on domestic programs,” Grenell posted on the embassy’s official Twitter account Friday. It's so bizzare how this doesn't make more people angry. I guess that's due to lack of education/information. We subsidize European social programs and they in turn hold their noses up at us for not having socialized healthcare
Hunter Turner
At this point it's hard to know for sure. Jews aren't omnipotent creatures that have a tight grasp on the future of the world at all times. They get blind sided from time to time. Dems are clearly pushing a few kike puppets up the flag poll again and letting the real popular candidates wither.
Nathaniel Long
>75yrs of US occupation of Germany >80 percent of Germans want US GIs all out of the country
oh geeee, why oh why don’t we kiss your ass for occupying us?
They've been asking us to leave for years. We really should go it's a waste trying to keep them from shooting themselves in the face.
Dominic Cruz
There is nothing more I'd like then for us to exit Europe you have no idea. The entire continent would collapse within 10 years once they are forced to actually spend money defending themselves.
Hudson Adams
Why don't burgers just leave?
Jace Garcia
If the US just packed up and left with next to no warning the EU would collapse in a matter of months.
Brody Gonzalez
>German government >doing what the people want
please... the problem is that there is a rather small state located at the French border where almost half of the US occupation troops are located and that state doesn’t want to lose the income from the brothel visits and alcohol abuse.
And because Germany is extremely federal, it cannot screw over that tiny state.
It actually benefits us to stay as well to be honest. We probably get more out of it in terms of world domination. Ramstein Air Base is like drone central command from what I understand.
Jeremiah Collins
>we hate you >but we depend on your money
Every fucking time
Carter Ortiz
>The entire continent would collapse within 10 years once they are forced to actually spend money defending themselves. Exactly. European countries had never entertained a standing army in the past. We would be totally doomed.
>Why don't burgers just leave? Because they rather complain loudly and hope we buy their military stuff. But why would they leave the place they occupy and pozz up for good? That's part of their global power projection.
Asher Perry
Krauts are Kike tier eurotrash. No surprise the Kraut-kikes never keep agreements and always try to parasite off others.
Why would they? The only enemy is Russia and USA, and there is no chance of war, she likes when Germans are killed anyway.
Poland should invade that with our superior army and clean it a little.
Evan Brooks
Hasn't Germany been our vassal state, aka Israels vassal state since WW2? I don't get it, don't they pay like 50-60% tax on their wages alone, compared to the abyssmal amount of taxes we pay? They should have the money, right?
Gavin Walker
Then we scrap our defense guarantees with Germany. It's not that hard. We don't need you.
Andrew Jackson
It’s a small state. We all hate that state. They are called Rheinland Pfalz, the other one is the Saarland and the third Baden-Würtemberg. They got pretty much all the stationed soldiers (some also in Hessen). All of them are states run by leftists who love subsidies and gibmees by the federal gov and foreigners.
Gavin Ramirez
I always wonder, what do americans believe they are protecting us from >inb4 russia there aren't that many cold warriors on Jow Forums are there?
Bentley Ross
What is Germany planning? They stand with Iran against the United States. They condemn China for Hong Kong. And they denounce Russia for interfering. Yet they are 100% dependent on these markets for exports and oil and gas. Its like Merkel IS TRYING WITH EVERYTHING SHE HAS to get Germany annihilated again.
Are they completely retarded?
Jeremiah Roberts
Geopolitically, we really only need the UK and Poland, and Romania to stick around. The rest of the alliance has outlived its usefulness. I'm sure we could promise Poland the city of Dresden in return for some higher spending figures. Germany really wouldn't stand a chance.
Jose Lewis
Fine, America will just occupy you kraut bastards for eternity. Enjoy.
Hunter Rodriguez
We are good friends with China and Russia.
We are openly opposing Trump and the US.
I thought this was quite clear.
Andrew Anderson
I lived in Hessen for 4 months this past spring. Can confirm. Leftist uni town that hated Americans but relied on them for almost everything under the sun.
Easton Bailey
Germany is so shit ally.
Carter Cook
NATO exists to hold the russians out the germans down and the americans in.
America would collapse without NATO
Thomas Morales
>It is actually offensive to assume that the U.S. taxpayer must continue to pay to have 50,000-plus Americans in Germany get the fuck out of my country you fucking mutts
Caleb Evans
Poor Estonia. Putting in the agreed-upon 2% for years and no one even mentions it.
Kevin King
read a book you dumb nigger
Brayden Jones
Makes sense. Germany has always and will always be a Communist shithole.
Thomas Lopez
Why the fuck WOULDN'T you oppose Trump? He's a total jackass who shits on your country all the time, makes bizarre demands, etc. Nobody should give in to his childish bullshit.
Luke Rivera
I’m always surprised by how well the German economy is doing. I thought all those imported niggers sucking welfare from your government would doom you guys quickly.
Oliver Ross
In March and April of '45 you were rushing west to kiss our asses. Germans: either at your feet or at your throat. Pay your fair share or you break the agreement.
Liam Foster
>And they denounce Russia for interfering. When? What? And where are they interfering?
>I always wonder, what do americans believe they are protecting us from Me too. They actually believe this stuff. They probably also believe they "liberated" all these countries they invaded.
Pulling US troops out of germany, that on its own would cause a deep recession in germany. Those bases spend a lot of money around them. And have a huge supply chain.
Leo Jackson
fuck germany. get fucked BREXIT followed by ITALYEXIT then you got nothing left but the french
Samuel Hall
muttmeriga is below 50% white so please tell me how it feels?
Jayden Cooper
Haven't killed us some Germans in a while...
Dominic Carter
I hope I get to add more g*rman trophies to my great grandad’s collection, the old flags are getting kinda frayed
Liam Sullivan
I was thinking about how that would turn out if our government had the balls to decide that we are no longer your bitch. Our army wouldn't be able to stop you and much less our police. Our citiziens arent armed. All we could do is going on strike while you go to Berlin and put new puppets on the throne. Motherfuckers!
We went from 200,000 to 40,000 without a deep recession, going from 40,000 to 0 isn't going to cause one either. Yeah it'll impact the local cities but nothing more
Jeremiah Diaz
You have basically no culture. Everything is American: your movies, your music; I even heard people on a train from Frankfurt speaking some sort of German/English hybrid. You guys are the most arrogant colony in world history. Don't act like the US couldn't just parade tanks down Kurfuerstendamm by the end of the week.
Adam Ward
Social programs are an inefficient shell game even in countries with healthy, intelligent populations. Universal healthcare and "Free*" college in the United States would literally tear the entire country apart.
>I need to give the government 60% of my money from the moment I get a job at 16 to my retirement 5 years preceding my country's life expectancy because it will come directly back to me later lol
The absolute amounts are still to small according to some, we should probably try to pump it up to 3% for bragging rights alone.
Asher Martin
Pay up, or defend yourselves. It’s that simple
Jason Gray
I'm of the opinion that we should disband NATO and start a new org that only retains compliant members. Then we can renegotiate when the Krauts feel Ivan's breath on the back of their neck.
Ayden Walker
All these Germans bitching. The entire point is we want you to build up so we do not have to occupy you anymore. Dumb asses.
Samuel Cooper
>merkel uses pipul
Ethan Jones
You're not 'allowing' us anything. Your country is a spoil of war. You're a vassal state. We give you a pretty long leash, but we reserve the right to snap it back hard should you forget your place.
Lucas Thomas
Kind of this. For us it's totally worth paying to have a military presence in another country, cause well, we have a military presence IN another country.
Levi Bailey
as if you kikebots would ever allow that to happen
Christian Cooper
Durr i was in berlin and i saw american tourists there and those mutts have no german culture at all
:'((( such a shame what happened to this cunt
T. Mutt/10
Nathan Moore
What on earth makes you think that the wants and desires of a conquered people matter? Pay your bills or see yourselves replaced by people who will.
Jonathan Carter
stop glowing nigger
Jose Wood
>subsidize national defense of other countries and allow you access to our markets so you can dig your way out of yet another European autism fit >"reeee go away filthy Americans!"
We should have let the soviets rape you all to death
Noah Hill
All of the Commonwealth would support this move.
Jack Turner
Then we'd revert to what the Germans know and respect: brute force. The Nazis and Communists got you to work, I'm sure we could too.
Josiah Kelly
More like 10 months
Thomas Hall
this psycho schizo tier politics they try to be some pivot like force in international diplomatic relations inspired by swiss neutrality they want to stand at the field lines of the battlefield , to be the merchant between the parties of war... "no more wars" ( inside eu ) it their doctrine however that does not include foreign wars ofc. fucking (((german))) tier hypocrisy its all so honked from head to toe if it wasnt fucking reality it wouldnt be funny tough...
Grandfather killed 89 mutts after 45 until he got to jail.
Kill mutts pride worldwide
Nicholas Moore
Clearly not if they kvetch each time the bare mention of leaving arises
Lucas Walker
>Fuck Germany. Kick them from NATO. Let Russia fucking have them. You'd fuck over your entire geo-strategy if you did that. You can't give up Germany, which is why Germany is not going to pay. You need us more than we need you.
Aiden Bennett
muuh russia. don't be such a scared sissie cuck muttmahmett
Lucas Reed
You are just pissed that the UK is about to make your 4th Reich crumble to piece.
John Rogers
I spent an entire semester in Hessen. Sure, there's US influence there due to the base in Wiesbaden, but Marburg, Kassel, etc were no different. Same goes for Bavaria and the East.
Jordan Nelson
You obviously can't keep your shit together, so you probably should kiss our ass. You guys can't go 50 years without initiating a global conflict, changing governments, or outright collapsing.
Zachary Sanders
Not sure. We no longer realize any benefit from the arrangement.
Asher Murphy
How is this cunt still your leader?
Nathan Green
Because the German government is run by the same kikes that run your government?
Lincoln Roberts
Is this that famous German optimism you get like in 1914 and 1939