European Union President Jean Claude Juncker Set the Records Straight on the firestorm over supposed comments reported in both the US and European media that has commentators ablaze and roasting US President Donald Trump in the media brazen bull over a comment he never made.
Consider this reporter’s question and EU
President Jean Claude Juncker’s statement, which sets the record straight.
“I don’t want to comment but I have to comment on this
because we had a meeting with President Trump, which was a very friendly very
constructive meeting Its not true that the president took an aggressive
approach when it came to the German trade surplus. I do really think and for
what is true that this is a real translation system, if someone is saying the
Germans are bad that doesn’t mean that the this can’t be translated literally.
[speaks German] so he was not aggressive anyway.”
When EU President Jean Claude Juncker continues his response
it becomes obvious that he is giving President Donald Trump a lesson in EU
trade, because what was accurate is that President Trump believed he could negotiate
trade deals with each individual nation in the European Union, which cannot be
done if they are EU members. Consider President
Juncker’s lesson to President Trump:
“Without taking the
defense of the Germans I was making clear that the US cannot compare their
trade situation with individual member states of the European Union, they have
to compare their performances with the global performances of the European
Union and I made it clear that the Commission is in charge of dealing with trade
issues and not the Member States.”
Before anyone bashes President Trump on not knowing that
detail, let’s put the blame where the blame should go: how about, the US media for providing very
little EU coverage and erroneously reporting that the EU is going to fall
apart.
German trade is conducted through the EU, as is now every
nation state in the EU. This sounds like a big development to me and it
happened decades ago. Not one of
President Trump’s advisers corrected him on this fact. The US looks pretty ignorant, both its media
and its government advisers.
Concerning the nation state or member countries, they were a
geopolitical trend in the 1800’s and 1900’s.
About 135 of the 196 countries
formed in the 1900’s alone.
Simultaneously
after World War 1 we saw the formation of the League of Nations in 1920 that
failed, and was a first attempt at an international organization. After World
War 11 the road split off from the nation state with the formation of the
European Coal and Steel Community, the UN, the World Bank, the IMF, and the
GATT, which morphed into the WTO. In 1957 the European Coal and Steel Community
signed a new treaty with more members, structure and areas of coordination and
it became the European Economic Community, which as it evolved continued to
grow in all of the above areas including admitting more member nations and
renamed itself with enforcement of the Maastricht treaty in 1993 the European Union. No one paid
attention then, they paid it no attention during its evolution except to say it
was going to fail.
Fast forward and now here we are in a multi polar world or
age of empires. The economy and world is
so interconnected, problems are now global in nature and the fork in the road
turned into a highway and the nation state is about to get kicked to the curb. American
dominance is going to come to its end.
You heard it here on Prophecy talk.
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