https://www.stripes.com/news/europe/afraid-of-a-major-conflict-the-german-military-is-currently-unavailable-1.508249
“Not deployable for collective defense”, but keep tasting that $100 Billion dollar trade deficit ass America and keep your guys/gals razor sharp while we enjoy another Schnitzel finger and cabbage.
Do you dorks have any idea what America would be like to have a trade surplus?
Someone is calling for a trade surplus?
What is the right trade deficit number you want?
It's not about a targeted $ number, it's about an even playing field. How about, no Tariffs at all?
Have you seen the average tarriff % we pay vs other countries? Prob not...doesn't fit narratives.
In regards to the EU the issue couldn't be any more clear. In the year of our Flying Spaghetti Monster 2018 is positively absurd to be sitting on the short side of a $100 billion dollar trade deficit (I absolutely get the weight of currency valuations etc. etc.) with the EU While 3 of the Top 7 economies in the world (in the EU and NATO) cannot roll out a military capable of defending their own country, while we spend hundreds of billions of to protect them. I can assure you none of the wonks shoving paper around on their desks factor in that cost when saying trade deficits are not bad things. It's also
that some of these whackadoo's keep playing down the national security element of being beholden to foreign nations in multiple categories of trade.
You think I keep going back to the past. Read some of the articles about those who are constantly extolling the absolute mandate of military alliances are good, but who never take into the account the accelerating mission creep of NATO and what those implications can be.
