When last (and first) we saw Finnish PM Sanna Marin, she was partying like some intern at a mid-sized law firm. Marin at 37 is not a serious person. She went to New Zealand to visit another female PM more than 10,000 miles away. She also dropped by Australia. Well, anything to escape winter in Helsinki.
But then she said something that stunned me. Channeling Donald John Trump, Marin said European nations rely too much on the United States for their defense against Russia.
Via BBC, Marin said, "I must be brutally honest with you, Europe isn't strong enough right now. We would be in trouble without the United States."
Shades of President Trump who frequently warned NATO allies of the very same thing.
On July 11, 2018, Defense News reported, "President Donald Trump opened his European trip Wednesday by attacking NATO allies for unfairly burdening the United States with their security needs and accusing Germany of being 'captive to Russia' because of business interests.
"The comments came at the start of a two-day NATO summit, which White House officials insisted would highlight the strength of the alliance and the importance of cooperation between its members.
"But Trump, who in recent months has frequently complained about what he sees as insufficient defense spending by other alliance members, used his first meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to again criticize the group for relying too much on American might and dollars for their security."
Two months later, in a speech at the UN, Trump warned Germany it was too reliant on Russia for oil and natural gas.
The German delegation laughed.
Germans will freeze this winter because Germany is too reliant on Russia for oil and natural gas. Maybe the Germans should relocate those laughing hyenas to Fulda.
In Sydney on Friday, Marin said, "The United States has given a lot of weapons, a lot of financial aid, a lot of humanitarian aid to Ukraine and Europe isn't strong enough yet."
We only support Ukraine because so many American politicians -- Biden, Pelosi, John Kerry and many others -- get bribes from Ukraine via their adult children and stepchildren. If Russia invaded Romania or Georgia, no one in DC would care.
Marin -- whose country shares an 800-mile border with Russia -- said "For a long time, Europe was building a strategy for Russia... to buy energy from Russia and to close those economic ties, and we thought that this would prevent the war."
Soo-prise, soo-prise, Sergeant Carter. That backfired.
Now Europe is desperately trying to gnaw off its leg to escape Putin's trap.
AP reported, "The Group of Seven nations and Australia joined the European Union on Friday in adopting a $60-per-barrel price cap on Russian oil, a key step as Western sanctions aim to reorder the global oil market to prevent price spikes and starve President Vladimir Putin of funding for his war in Ukraine.
"Europe needed to set the discounted price that other nations will pay by Monday, when an EU embargo on Russian oil shipped by sea and a ban on insurance for those supplies take effect. The price cap, which was led by the G-7 wealthy democracies, aims to prevent a sudden loss of Russian oil to the world that could lead to a new surge in energy prices and further fuel inflation."
We shall see how this works but given that those Biden-led economic sanctions against Russia backfired, I am of belief this will fail too.
CNBC reported, "Russia said on Saturday it would continue to find buyers for its oil, despite what it said was a dangerous attempt by Western governments to introduce a price cap on its oil exports."
And some of those buyers will turn around and sell the oil to Europe.
Until Europe arms itself, its prime ministers may as well all become party girls.
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I understand that at 37, Trump was quite the playboy himself, yet he succeeded in business. As long as Prime Minister Marin conscientiously takes care of her statesmanship, she can party all she wants in her spare time.
ReplyDeleteSo.
DeleteYou want to date her, right?
She's the leader if a nation.
She doesn't have any spare time.
Barely enough to take a piss.
Hey, schmuck, how do you know I want to date her?
DeleteDo you mean how DID I know you want to date her?
DeleteWell, that is not a bannana in your pocket, is it?
Oh, so you have Superman's x-ray vision? You don't know jack shit about me.
DeleteKJO
DeletePrime Minister's position is such that you are expected some dignity, not acting like $5 whore even when you're not at the office. Finnish male prime minister was criticized in media when he wore shorts in public and another male prime minister was criticized when he had extramarital relationship even though he and his ex-wife were already living in separate and they were divorcing. One former foreign minister was forced to resign because he sent sexual text messages to a stripper and the stripper sold them to gossip magazine.
DeleteEurope's entire Welfare State was subsidized by cheap Russian energy, mainly pipeline natgas. There is no cheap substitute for Russian energy to Europe.
DeleteSo Ukraine, birthed by Lenin, Stalin and Khrushchev should have been the one hill upon which Europe ought not be dying on. Sanctions against Russia are an inconvenience for Russia, but are fatal to European Industry and Employment.
Diplomacy and Negotiation should have been the preferred option instead of Belligerence and Stupidity.
So True. Just like Bill Clinton taking advantage of an intern his daughters age, we wouldn't have screamed too loudly if he'd done his nasty with her in say, a hotel or private residence. But in the freaking oval office was just too much. Then lied about it under oath....the mid 1990's with his admin is when USA began its current decline into depravity, dishonor, complete lack of morals, honesty integrity etc. Then the head muslim really accelerated the decline.
ReplyDelete“The head Muslim?”
DeleteYou racist losers are still pushing that idiocy?
It’s been 14 years. A black man was elected as your president and is more accomplished than you could ever dream of being. Get over it.
Downlow barry stated, with utmost sincerity, that his goal was to fundementally change america.
DeleteHis obamanation minions are attempting to do just that.
As he gloats in his million dollar retreat on an island full of elite snobs.
You, being a mere grain of moldly rice, sit in your locked down apartment, wondering when they will unweld your steel door.
Obama was handed everything in his adult life, up to and including the presidency. Nobody at Columbia University even remembers the guy, and ALL his college records have been sealed. In the test run for the media becoming Democrat party stenographers they buried all the bad news about him during the 2008 campaign, or minimized it like they did his racist pastor in Chicago. Barry is not who they said he is, and never has been. He was the first ever Editor of the Law Review at Harvard never to be published in it. He got paid for his memoirs and has yet to turn in a first draft, that's how lazy he is. Nobody gives a damn about the color of is skin, but we do not like Communists, and Barry has always been one.
DeleteBathhouse Barry Soetoro. Communist. Light worker. Destroyer of America. Professional bullshitter. Stutterer when talking without a teleprompter.
DeleteYes to both Dave and Lardmaster above. The problem with Obama wasn't that he was Black, the problem was that he was Red (communist), and Green (meaning--lacked any executive experience").
DeleteTrump wasn't president at 37 though.
DeleteThis is the kind of stratamagizing we've come to expect from our WEF leaders. What's to stop Russia from not selling any oil to the EU at all? They can easily sell it to China, India, Africa or even to OPEC and let OPEC sell it to EU at a massive markup. These people are stoopid.
ReplyDeleteNo, they're evil.
DeleteStrategory!
DeleteThe. Euros could track and get all the energy they want. Like the US did. But they continue to do the same things over and over expecting different results.
ReplyDeleteThe Euros can transform coal into diesel fuel as a German chemist did a century ago, for which he won a Nobel prize.
DeleteFinnish state-owned oil company turns waste into fuel.
DeleteRemember when Surber mocked the media for saying Putin was going to invade Ukraine, and his big evidence was taking Vlad at his word that he wouldn’t?
ReplyDeleteThen, a week later, Putin invaded Ukraine.
That aged well.
No.
DeleteThis I do not remember.
Link the article.
Remember when you had a life and weren't a total fuckin loser who spent his days trolling on the internet?
DeleteMe neither.
Reality hurts, huh?
Delete——
“The time came and went without incidence. The media continued to bleat the deep state line that Putin was amassing troops along the border.
The media pays scant attention to Putin's side of the story that he is holding training exercises.”
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2022/02/putin-shows-our-media-and-deep-state.html?m=1
It was totally harmless training, Don said! No invasion coming!
So, now, does this mean surber is a putin puppet?
DeleteNah, just really easily duped.
DeleteAnd wrong on yet another of his predictions.
I do so love the brave, brave, stunning and brave trolls who say such outrageously witty and pithy things in the comments sections of my favorite blogs. It's what we all live for, don'tchaknow?
DeleteThe pithy and witty, and, oh so pretty trolls would just die if you did not live........
DeleteHere come the coniptions.....
Everything Trump said has been proven right. "Obama spied on me", "the China virus", etc.
ReplyDeleteIt greatly pains me to disagree with you, but some of us support the corrupt Ukraine so it doesn't become our decade's Sudetenland. I feel much the same about Romania and Georgia (either of them) as I do about Ukraine. Do I wish more of the money sent there was used for defense and the people? Yes, but I feel the same about the money sent to DC (or in my case, Sacramento - and my County Board of Supervisors is also kind of iffy).
ReplyDeleteTo adapt a Churchill quote: “If [Putin - or Xi] invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil...” Sometimes you have to work with the ally you have rather than the ally you want.
Ukraine an ally? What are WE getting from the "alliance"??????
DeleteSomeone, not American, is killing Russians and preventing them from visiting Berlin and Paris in their T-72’s. What have you done lately for world peace?
DeleteMy name is Richard Red and I wrote the above.
DeleteSo, the russian russians are gonna attack paris and berlin?
DeleteWell then, have those millions of mideast muslims strike them infidals down!!!
They'll only want the frenchies and the krauts to convert to islam, but, what the hell, it's for world peace......
Mr. Hertz will no longer acknowledge any anonymous comments unless they identify with a name. I think everyone that posts on the Surbers blog should do the same.
ReplyDeleteAgree re anonymous posters. You can include your handle at the beginning or end if you post anonymously. I don't bother with their posts.
DeleteI stand with Dick. This will be my last acknowledgement of an anonymous poster. With one exception. And I’m not responding to you to tell you what that exception is.
DeleteOh no.
DeleteThe shunning begins.......
However shall we survive.....?
Let us pray...............
You're nobody
'till somebody shuns you
You're nony
They say, so beware
The named ones are pissed
Say, you'll never be missed
'cause their dick's are in pain
They can't handle the strain
Of the thoughts so profane
Of the nameless refrain
So they shun
Oh what fun!
To ignore, disregard
Nameless posts by the bard
It's as if there's a shard
Up their butts
Deep and hard
Oh!!
The humanity!
The insanity!!
The awesome vanity!!!
To be outcast from the village of the fake naming fellowship flock of farting fellows is an honor.
Hear Ye!!
Hear Ye!!!
All thee nameless ones!!!
Unlabeled as thee choose to be!!!
Lament not the absence of the senseless ones, the labelers of the nameless.
For they, along with their fake names, shall continue to reliably post their comments, in the mood of the solace they crave of being read, taken oh so seriously as wisdoms, and still, they be wet farting into the ass grooves of their lazy boy recliners.
Thus, is this always so, we slip out of this world, not with a wimper, nor a bang, butt rather, with a splurted wet fart, to bid the world a fond adooo.
I think that's an excellent suggestion. There are people who at least include their initials or "names" like TJ, Tea Party Girl and EN SS2. I will continue to interact with them.
DeleteOh what fun this will be
DeleteAs we no named will see
To be shunned
Oh what fun
This will bOh what fun this will be
As we no named will see
To be shunned
Oh what fun
This will be!
Post a bit
Poke their shit
See if they
Can obey
Their flock's edict
To say not a word
Don't reply
Nor respond
To those bottom of pond
We the fishes
Per our wishes
Who swim at the top
Of the pond we have got
Which, boys and girls, guys and gals, and whatevers, make you much more visible to the sea gulls......
You know
The birds of a flock that feed upon thee.....
Keep your fish heads spinning
Tell yourselves you are winning
Breathe deep thru your gills
To solve all of your ills
It's okay.
We fish, nameless as we choose to be
Unlabeled as to be quite free
Know the best nourishments
Are to be found near the bottom of the pond
And quite far from the eyes of the birds that would eat us.
e!
Post a bit
Poke their shit
See if they
Can obey
Their flock's edict
To say not a word
Don't reply
Nor respond
To those bottom of pond
We the fishes
Per our wishes
Who swim at the top
Of the pond we have got
Which, boys and girls, guys and gals, and whatevers, make you much more visible to the sea gulls......
You know
The birds of a flock that feed upon thee.....
Keep your fish heads spinning
Tell yourselves you are winning
Breathe deep thru your gills
To solve all of your ills
It's okay.
We fish, nameless as we choose to be
Unlabeled as to be quite free
Know the best nourishments
Are to be found near the bottom of the pond
And quite far from the eyes of the birds that would eat us.
That comment tater should have to pay rent for the excess space and baggage.
DeleteObviously brevity and relevance are foreign concepts.
You funny guy.
DeleteWith this tech, brevity is irrelevant.
Tap tap tap, and the letters appear.
No need to buy ink ribbon.
No need to buy bottles of white out, nor reams of paper, nor postage stamps, nor envelopes, nor any other than the cost of internet provider.
Surber, I am sure, values the tech most highly.
As you seem to not.
Excess space?
Space with this tech is effectively without limit.
Just because you have barely anything to say, evidenced by your brevity, does not equal the same being so for anyone else.
The form of text messaging, is likely the source of your limited perspective, paraphrased as, too many words!!!
Tap tap tap
Goes the keyboard
Plop plop plop flow the words....
You got more words to say, don't be miserly.....
Or just admit you got only those few words that pop into your head, bounce around within the space there, and return to your nap.......
Hey, lard ass.
DeleteJust so you can stop holding your breath, as your fake name buddy, richard hertz has not been forthcoming:
And, be ass ured, dick stands with YOU!!!
Cathcup up here today (Sunday). Agree with the commenters with names/handles and will no longer respond to Anonymous posters. They are bringing the blog down.
DeleteYou're sorta okay, for a canadian.....
DeleteThat kinda explains why a bit of spicy, feisty, ball busting comment activity leads you conclude that the blog is being brought down.
Not much of a fan of the bard, eh?
A rose, by any other name, (including anonymous), doth smell as sweet....
Eat the cookie, luann, darling.
It may look like a lump of baked turd, however, it is really a double chocolate chip brownie batter cookie.
You no eat the cookie?
What if one of the fake named ones offer you the cookie?
You eat cookie then?
If the Europeans don’t care about themselves, why should I.
ReplyDeleteCorrect. NATO should have dismantled when Soviet Union collapsed.
DeleteMNN Breaking...
ReplyDeleteNATO Announces New Targeting Policies on NATO Members
In light of the recent attacks on NATO members by the Biden Administration, including the bombing of Germany's gas supply line from Russia, the attempted strike on the TurkStream Pipeline and this week's missile strike on Poland, NATO members are now demanding pre-notification before being bombed by Joe Biden.
This demand was sparked by a recent hot mic incident wherein US ReichsMinister for Defense Lloyd Austin was caught saying he "sure would like to take a swack at Montenegro".
"In order to bring stability and predictability to the targeting of NATO members by Biden, we have instituted a targeting lottery we like to call 'Wheel of NATO'", said Secretary General Jan Brady-Stoltenberg, who is both a general and a secretary.
"One lucky member will be chosen each month for an American "sneak" attack and will pretend to be surprised. However, blaming it on Russia will still remain mandatory," said the former child star.
Manufactured News Network: "We Have Information That Could Lead To the Arrest and Convic
https://restinthevine.blogspot.com/2022/11/mnn-clothesline-news.html
Gee.
DeleteYa think the members of nato nations are miffed that they got less respect than china did, when that treasonous muffin miley gave them a call?
Tinfoil crackpot site.
DeleteConservatives are so gullible, the believe anything a kook puts online.
Tinfoil crackpot commenter.
DeleteLiberals are so gullible, they believe everything their shitstain leaders put up their butts.
*** Now Europe is desperately trying to gnaw off its leg to escape Putin's trap.***
ReplyDeleteLOL at that one ☝️ glad not sipping coffee or such 😂
EdwardCavalierNC
With 70% world population just given time delayed permanent sleep injections, a reprioritization of what things are actually important for survival will hit millions in the head like a brick.
ReplyDeleteSorry, my name is Eudollen ap Afallach
DeleteHey Surber, don't worry. Ukraine is doing all the dirty work that Patton wanted to do, to crush the Kremlin.
ReplyDeleteWe should be thanking Ukrainians for shedding their blood to finish the job we didn't finish while we had the chance, but then again, how would the MIC have survived without the Cold War?
Just like the upcoming Chinese Cold War, after we financed it on Amazon and in Walmart. We're a bunch of useful idiots in America. Lenin had no monopoly on that
Keep an eye on Ukraine and take notes. They are showing us how to neutralize predatory regimes..
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