Soft power, empty hands: Germany’s finance
minister fails in D.C.

Germany, Britain and France, probably the leading countries in the EU, are on their way to ruin, financial disaster and the loss of their human identity due to their capitulation to the North African and Middle Eastern invasion from which they are now too weak to recover. Mohammed is smiling.

It's hard to imagine Germany with an inferiority complex; impossible with the French. But that does not preclude an actual condition of inferiority. Once it embraced being a dumping ground for the wretched refuse of the teeming third world, they were doomed. I guess Gibbon's 'Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire' was never translated into German.

I wonder how historians will look at the suicide of the Western nations 100 years from now? Will the mission be accomplished, with citizens living in 1984 2.0? Or, will clearer heads prevail, once survival instincts kick in? I honestly don’t know anymore.

Klingbiel -- and the rest of his contemporaries near the levers of power in Germany -- should learn from their forebears who rebuilt the Federal Republic of Germany (i.e. West Germany) after WWII and governed it until ceding too much federal power to the EU and trading in the Deutsche Mark for the Euro. Those Germans were hard-nosed realists working to dig their country out of the ruins left to them by the destruction of Nazism. They were careful about immigration -- though some claimed they let in too many Turks in the early 1960s at a time when the economy was growing far more rapidly than the available labor, they kept their currency hardened so as to avoid repeating the mistakes of the Wiemar Republic (where wheel barrows of Marks were needed to buy a loaf of bread near its end), and they practiced a trade policy called *reciprocity*... and it worked very well for them... and for their trade relationship with America, who was West Germany's largest trade partner in the latter half of the 1980s as Ronaldus Magnus was a full-throated free trader. At the time, a much younger Donald Trump noted that most other countries were practicing mercantilism in response to Reagan's policies of free trade and "ripping us off"... But West Germany didn't rip us off as it made good on its policy and opened West German markets wide to America in response to America being wide open to West Germany. PDJT is doing nothing but practicing West German trade policy, circa the mid-1980s. If Klingbiel knew any of the history of his own country, he would have nothing but praise for this.

Americans, and especially Trump, are not impressed with Europe. Their culture is being destroyed by illegal immigrants, and they have no business sense or governing skills. Since WWII they have allowed themselves to become very weak militarily by leaning on the US and pouring most of their resources into social programs. Now they are becoming even more socialist and authoritarian. They do not, nor should they have, any real influence with the United States.

It's not bad enough to be dumb and ineffective...but to have it pronounced to the world is a hard hit for Germany....it's a hard hit...Germany...but it's back to the drawing board and figure out what to do next....America has always been taking financial care of you...BUT...WE are in a new faze ...it's called America First...fixing your economy is not our endless responsibility....you and France need to grow a pair....

Euroweenies like this finance minister are a black plague on Western Civilization. They will not stand up to murderous muslims.