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Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Saturday, May 2, 2026
Hegseth orders withdrawal of 5,000 US troops from Germany - POLITICO
The drawdown, which comes after the country’s leader sparred with President Donald Trump over the Iran war, leaves about 35,000 troops there…
Trump threatens to withdraw troops from Italy and Spain
US president says European countries are ‘absolutely horrible’ to refuse to support operations in strait of Hormuz…
Friday, May 1, 2026
Trump’s call to reduce US troops in Germany shocks Pentagon - POLITICO
While previous threats from Trump have not come to fruition, he’s ratcheted up his anti-European rhetoric in his second term, from threatening to pull out of NATO due to allies’ failure to join the Iran war to warning he might seize Greenland.
Trump’s latest threat to the transatlantic alliance comes just days after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the U.S. was being “humiliated” by Iran at the negotiating table. Trump continued to launch broadsides against the German leader on Thursday, calling for Merz to “spend more time” on ending Russia’s war with Ukraine and solving European energy and immigration problems “and less time on interfering with those that are getting rid of the Iran Nuclear threat.”…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/30/trump-germany-troop-pullout-pentagon-shocked-00900619
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Merz warns Israel against West Bank annexation – POLITICO
Israeli settlements and aspects of Israel's control of the occupied West Bank are illegal under international law, a point reiterated by several European governments last week...
https://www.politico.eu/article/friedrich-merz-warns-israel-against-west-bank-annexation/
Thursday, March 5, 2026
Merz tells Trump Ukraine must not give up more territory
German chancellor says that he underscored need for continued support for Kyiv during US visit; Trump says Ukraine is 'very high' on his priority list. What we know on day 1,470…
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Monday, May 5, 2025
Germany hits back at Marco Rubio after he panned labeling of AfD as ‘extremist’
In a response on X, the German foreign ministry pushed back against the US secretary of state, saying: "This is democracy. This decision is the result of a thorough & independent investigation to protect our Constitution & the rule of law. It is independent courts that will have the final say. We have learnt from our history that rightwing extremism needs to be stopped."…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/03/marco-rubio-germany-afd
Thursday, January 9, 2025
German chancellor pushes back against Donald Trump's Greenland takeover
Scholz said it was a long-standing principle that "borders must not be moved by force."
"The principle of the inviolability of borders applies to every country, regardless of whether it lies to the east of us or the west, and every state must keep to it, regardless of whether it is a small country or a very powerful state," he said...
Sunday, December 15, 2024
Unidentified drones spotted over US air base in Germany, report says
German intelligence chiefs have warned that the country's support for Ukraine in its war with Russia makes it a target of possible sabotage attempts, with recent security incidents at military barracks raising alarm further...
Saturday, November 30, 2024
‘Would you survive 72 hours?’ Germany and the Nordic countries prepare citizens for possible war | Europe | The Guardian
Apps and booklets are offering advice on how to build a bunker, stockpile food and live without electricity in case the worst happens…
Friday, September 13, 2024
Trump gets fact-checked by Germany over energy claim at debate with Harris
When Harris told Trump at the debate that world leaders laugh at him, I imagine this is the type of mockery she was talking about...
Thursday, September 12, 2024
Trump debate claims about Germany, Nord Stream are wrong, says Berlin - The Washington Post
"You believe in things like, we're not going to frack, we're not going to take fossil fuel, we're not going to do things that are going make this country strong, whether you like it or not," Trump said Tuesday night, referring to Harris. "Germany tried that, and within one year, they were back to building normal energy plants."
Hours later, in an uncharacteristically direct statement, the German Foreign Ministry fact-checked Trump's claims on its English-language X account.
"Like it or not: Germany's energy system is fully operational, with more than 50% renewables," the ministry wrote. "And we are shutting down — not building — coal & nuclear plants. Coal will be off the grid by 2038 at the latest."…
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Friday, July 19, 2024
Friday, May 3, 2024
Hydrogen Offers Germany a Chance to Take a Lead in Green Energy - The New York Times
Washington earmarked more funding as part of the incentives in President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, the 2022 law that is offering hundreds of billions of dollars for carbon-free, or green, technology. The Department of Energy awarded Nucera a $50 million grant last month to further develop production of gigawatt-scale electrolyzers for North America...
Thursday, January 4, 2024
Renewable energy's share on German power grids reaches 55% in 2023 | Reuters
Within renewables, offshore wind contributed a 31.1% share, solar accounted for 12.1% and biomass 8.4%, while the remaining 3.4% came from hydropower and other renewables, the Bundesnetzagentur said in a statement...
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Monday, September 25, 2023
Nazi Germany had admirers among American religious leaders – and white supremacy fueled their support
Instead, what most strongly differentiated Hitler's sympathizers in this era was their belief in white supremacy vis-a-vis African Americans. These groups published literature claiming that African Americans were physically and mentally inferior, and one wrote positively of the Ku Klux Klan. A Southern Baptist bishop wrote, "The Negro is not like the white man … there are striking differences physical and mental," going on to claim, "the white race … assumes its superiority in strength and capacity."…
Friday, June 30, 2023
German Catholic church ‘dying painful death’ as 520,000 leave in a year | Germany | The Guardian
Speed of departures has been driven by series of child abuse scandals and accusations of a cover-up…
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Germany’s Scholz says China ‘declared it will not deliver’ weapons to Russia – POLITICO
"We all agree that there should be no arms deliveries, and the Chinese government has declared that it will not deliver any either," the chancellor said in response to a question by POLITICO. "We insist on this and we are monitoring it," he added...
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Germany charges five in plot to kidnap health minister and mount coup - The Washington Post
Germany on Monday charged five suspects in a plot to kidnap the country's health minister, stir civil unrest and violently overthrow the government.
Germany's public prosecutor said the group had planned to blow up power infrastructure, "trigger civil warlike conditions" and overthrow democracy...
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
Opinion | Holiday Charitable Giving Can Raise Thorny Questions - The New York Times
I began thinking about this after I received an email from a psychology professor, Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, criticizing what he called "the capitalist system of charities in the U.S.A." He wrote that charities are "competing to the death for the same 50 cents."
"Thus," he went on, "hundreds of organizations fight hunger locally and nationally. When it comes to illnesses, there are thousands of organizations competing. This means a terrible waste of resources." He recommended that I look at Germany, where the government performs functions that charities perform in the United States...
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