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New York Times 2018:
"Claim: Germany is ‘captive’ to Russia because of energy dependence.
"Claimed by: Donald Trump
"Fact check by The New York Times: That's misleading."
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"This is a rhetorical gambit from Trump that we’re used to by now. To undercut his opponents (real or perceived), he’ll often focus on one issue and hype it, often blowing it out of proportion."
Yeah, really blown out of proportion
washingtonpost.com/news/politics/
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CNN with the requisite pearl-clutching
"Trump’s comments were a remarkable criticism for a US president to make about a close US ally and is likely to increase tensions between the US and its European allies."
Oh heavens! He increased "tensions"!
Unfortunately, by not enough
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"German Defense Minister preemptively rebuffed concerns about any German 'dependency' on Russia with CNN’s saying Germany has “a very diverse mix of energy supplies.”
For her errors, Leyen was promoted. Today she's president of the European Commission.
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Der Spiegel 2018: Merkel "countered that Germany gets less than 40% of its gas supplies from Russia. But Trump wouldn't let it go....Former Chancellor Schröder is chair of Nord Stream 2 project — a fact that also seems to ruffle Trump's feathers"
Brutish *and* hyper-sensitive!
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The psychologizing in the Der Spiegel piece is really something else
"The U.S. president seems to view Germany with a mixture of jealousy, admiration and anger."
"'We are not prisoners -- neither of Russia nor of the U.S.,'" says German Foreign Minister.
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Basically it was everybody
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As far as I can tell, the only thing Trump was wrong about in this case was that he *underestimated* the danger of Germany's dependence on Russian gas.
It wasn't just Germany that was in danger, it was all of the West.
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This “fact check” of fmr Trump spokesperson by is egregiously wrong.
The claim, “President Trump sanctioned Russia. President Biden gave them a pipeline,” is mostly true not “mostly false,” as the “fact check” itself reveals!
SMH
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The decision to support Nord Stream 2 came directly from Biden!
SMH
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The best part of the above is how it reported that the “pipeline” was “inevitable.” I mean, totally. What could possibly stop it? Certainly not reason or foresight
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For the “fact-checkers” in the back
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“Ukraine's President Zelensky launched a campaign to get the U.S. Senate to back sanctions to block the Nord Stream 2 pipeline….Biden waived sanctions on the operator of the Kremlin-backed pipeline..in order to protect the U.S. relationship with Germany”
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Joe didn’t fund Putin’s pipelines, U.S. taxpayers did …
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You'll love the Politifact attack on somebody else for stating the simple truth that CO2 is not pollution.
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