Trump: Germany's Disrespect as Strategy

Since the beginning of the Biarrritiz summit, US President Trump is excited about Twitter. “We have very good meetings, leaders understood very well,” he writes on the short message network.

A two-hour lunch with Macroni he called “the best meeting we've had so far”. France and Macron had done a fine job so far at a very important “summit”. A bilateral meeting with the German Chancellor within the summit until late was not planned.

After the summit, Trump will visit another European country in late August: Poland. There he will attend the commemoration ceremony of World War II 80 years ago.

Germany, on the other hand, is not in its travel plan. Also, Trump initially showed no commitment to meeting Chancellor Merkel in the context of this or a later trip.

This fits the picture: in more than two years of his mandate, Trump has only met Merkel once in Germany at the G-20 summit in Hamburg. While her guest in Berlin he was never.

US and Germany: report that has become difficult

This would be very long at a time when the list of subjects in the conversation would be very long. There would be on top of all topics charged with conflicts such as Germany's defence expenditures, the position of Iran, the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline with Russia. Germany and the United States really have a lot in common, but recently they have more and more differences.

Trump and Merkel have no significant differences only in politics. The harmony between the two is also considered not particularly good. In Memorial Events for D-Day this summer, Trump didn't even offer Merkel a handshake.

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The refusal to Germany, as well as the annulment from Trump's planned trip to Denmark in September, due to Denmark's refusal to sell Greenland, are typical for “Transitional Guidance” Trump “says American expert Joseph Braml of the German Association for Foreign Relations.

“He sees himself as chief, formulates clear purposes and requirements, and rewards or condemns subordinates with advantages or disadvantages when they fail to meet his demands,” said Brammertz in an interview for DW.

Poland's Feetly Favorite Role

“This is why Germany and Denmark are being punished with lack of attention, while Poland has at the moment been able to succeed with the American president,” he added.

This has implications: While Berlin's influence in Washington is shrinking, Warsaw has significantly improved its transatlantic profile since Trump took office. “Polonia has more impact than Germany, and I would call Poland the second most important partner for the United States after the United Kingdom”, it says ARDs, Nile Gardiner from “Heritage Foundation” in Washington.

Bramley, meanwhile, warns Poland and other countries not to rely too much on new diplomatic relations with the United States. The current members of Trump in Eastern Europe should not be mistaken. Sooner or later it will be important for American geo-traditionists to reconcile American and Russian interests in order to curb the vast activity of China,” says Braml in conversation with DW.
Strategy: EU division
The new habit of disregarding the economically strong European countries, and rather by paying special attention to those countries that have a particularly difficult relationship with Brussels, it may be linked to a broad strategic goal, namely, to deepen the gap within the European Union.
The Trump's Europe <x0). His government has already made it clear. She believes in such a policy, because she opposes multilatheralism”, says in a conversation with the ARD, Jacob Kirkegaard at the US Institute for International Economics.
Surely it should be seen in this context that Trump has repeatedly supported young British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. At the same time, US Ambassador to Germany Richard Green has threatened that the US can withdraw their troops from Germany and instead move to Poland.

The Trump's “government tried from the start to introduce a question among EU member states”, says Federal Government transatlantic Co-ordinator Peter Beyer, in a conversation with Südwestpress. “We need to take this seriously.” / DW