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“Germany is a rich country…. we have to talk about the billions and billions of dollars that’s being paid to the country [Russia] that we are supposed to be protecting you against. You know everybody’s everybody’s talking about it all over the world. They’ll say well wait a minute. We’re supposed to be protecting you from Russia, but why are you paying billions of dollars to Russia for energy.” (US President Trump, July 11, 2018)

When evaluating aid commitments to Ukraine as percentage of GDP, the rankings are #1 Estonia, 1.1% of its GDP, #2 Latvia, 0.933% of its GDP, #3 Poland, 0.5% of its GDP, #4 Lithuania, 0.46% of its GDP, #5 Norway 0.34% of its GDP, #6 UK 0.26% of its GDP, #7 Czech Republic 0.24% of its GDP, #8 Slovakia 0.20% of its GDP, #9 Canada, 0.23% of its GDP, #10 US 0.229% of its GDP. This includes military and non-military aid. https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker/

Germany won’t allow re-export of its Leopard tanks from other European countries. Countries like Poland require permission to give their German made tanks to Ukraine, but Germany’s been blocking the re-export: “Visegrád 24 @visegrad24 BREAKING: @JulianRoepcke from @BILD reports that Scholz told Biden in a phone call on Tuesday that Germany won’t allow Leopard 2 tanks be sent to Ukraine before the U.S. sends Abrams. Biden answered that USA won’t send Abrams. This increasingly looks like sabotage from Scholz“ https://www.trendsmap.com/twitter/tweet/1615823816596553728

Remember how Scholz tried to intimidate and bribe the Trump Admin to waive US Congressional sanctions against Nord Stream 2: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2023/01/17/leak-current-german-chancellor-scholz-tried-and-failed-to-bribe-bully-the-trump-admin-into-waiving-us-congressional-sanctions-against-russia-nordstream2-biden-admin-blinken-waived-nordstream2-sa/

US Sec. of State Pompeo is sitting next to Trump. Pompeo is running for 2024:
“Word for Word: President Trump Strongly Criticized Germany at Start of NATO summit” July 11, 2018 https://youtu.be/OXqZf72pAhk

“Germany is totally controlled by Russia because they were getting from sixty to seventy percent of their energy from Russia and a new pipeline and you tell me if that’s appropriate because I think it’s not and I think it’s a very bad thing for NATO and I don’t think it should have happened and I think we have to talk to Germany about it. On top of that Germany is just paying a little bit over 1% whereas the United States in actual numbers is paying four point two percent of a much larger GDP, so I think that’s inappropriate. Also you know
we’re protecting Germany we’re protecting France we’re protecting everybody and yet we’re paying a lot of money to protect. Now this has been going on for decades. This has been brought up by other Presidents but other Presidents never did anything about it. Because I
don’t think they understood it or they just didn’t want to get involved but I have to bring it up because I think it’s very unfair to our country. It’s very unfair to our taxpayer and I think that these countries have to step it up – not over a 10-year period, but to step it up immediately.

Germany is a rich country. They talk about they can increase it a tiny bit by 2030. Well they could increase it immediately tomorrow and have no problem. I don’t think it’s fair to the United States. So, we’re gonna have to do something
because we’re not going to put up with it. We can’t put up with it. And it’s inappropriate. So we have to talk about the billions and billions of dollars that’s being paid to the country that we are supposed to be protecting you against. You know everybody’s everybody’s talking about it all over the world. They’ll say well wait a minute. We’re supposed to be protecting you from Russia, but why are you paying billions of dollars to Russia for energy. Why are countries in NATO, namely Germany, having a large percentage of the energy needs you know paid to Russia and been taken care of by Russia. Now if you look at it Germany is a captive of Russia because they supply that get rid of their coal plant so you got rid of their nuclear they’re getting so much of the oil and gas from Russia. I think it’s something that NATO has to look at.” https://youtu.be/OXqZf72pAhk

“One of the only countries that hasn’t agreed to pay what they’re supposed to pay (on NATO) is Germany. So, I said until they pay, we’re removing our soldiers, a number of our soldiers, by about half. Then when we get down to about 25,000, we’ll see where we’re going,” Trump said last month… Gen. Tod Wolters, the commander of US European Command and NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, said the US would be moving EUCOM headquarters from Germany to Belgium as part of an effort to co-locate the command with the NATO military command headquarters that is based there, and that Africa Command headquarters may be moving to a location to be determined as well.” https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/29/politics/us-withdraw-troops-germany/index.html

Leak: Current German Chancellor Scholz Tried (and Failed) to Bribe-Bully the Trump Admin into Waiving US Congressional Sanctions Against Russia (NordStream2); Biden Admin-Blinken Waived NordStream2 Sanctions