Week in Review: Trump Inauguration, German Neo-Nazism, Russian Power, Chinese Globalization, and Much More

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Week in Review: Trump Inauguration, German Neo-Nazism, Russian Power, Chinese Globalization, and Much More

All you need to know about everything in the news this week

January 20, 2017

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Highlights:

President Trump awakens Germany

United States President Donald Trump has threatened to shake up the established world order by praising Brexit, criticizing the European Union, and reaching out to Russia.

“Above all,” Judy Dempsey wrote in an article published by Carnegie Europe, “Trump has not hesitated to criticize Germany, its industry or its leader, Chancellor Angela Merkel—or to air his view that Germany is using the EU as its own vehicle.”

Watch for the prospect of a potential Russo-American alliance to awake more fears in Germany. Watch for the prospects of those fears to threaten the European Union’s transformation into a vehicle for German military ambitions.

More calls for German nukes

The election of President Donald Trump has caused senior German officials to ask: Do we need our own nuclear weapons?

“Rather than expect the United States to burnish nato’s nuclear deterrent, European nations should consider expanding their nuclear arsenals and creating a Continent-wide nuclear force, perhaps as part of the long-derided Common Security and Defense Policy.”

That exhortation came from Doug Bandow, senior fellow at the Cato Institute and former special assistant to President Ronald Regan.

It’s apparent that America’s foreign-policy establishment has no problem with Germany building nuclear weapons of its own. For the full ramifications of this and related policies, read our article “Europe’s Nuclear Secret.”

Neo-Nazi rhetoric in Germany

Crowds roared in applause when a rising star in Germany’s upstart Alternative for Germany party (AfD) exhorted them to take pride in Germany’s past.

At a rally on January 17, Björn Höcke lamented how “German history is handled as rotten and made to look ridiculous.”

In an article titled “In Germany, a Far-Right Leader Stirs a Long-Suppressed Nationalism,” the New York Times wrote that “Mr. Höcke challenged the collective national guilt over the war that has restrained German politics for three generations.”

“At times he used language that seemed to hint at lamenting Nazi Germany’s defeat.”

Russia now ‘runs the world’

Despite Russia’s comparatively modest gdp and population, the National Post said January 16 that Moscow is “utterly dominating foreign affairs.”

The title of the Post’s article is telling: “Why Russia—A Country With Less Money Than Canada and Fewer People Than Nigeria—Runs the World Now.”

“Mr. Putin has just changed the course of world history. And Bible prophecy reveals exactly where it is leading,” Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote in his January 2004 article titled “Russia Frightens Europe—And Fulfills Bible Prophecy!”

“Never in the history of man has so much prophecy been fulfilled in such a short span of time!”

Other news:

European Union foreign ministers expressed their opposition to any plan by President Donald Trump to move the United States Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The foreign ministers warned on Monday that such a move could ratchet up tensions with the Arab world.

On Tuesday, Xi Jinping became the first Chinese leader to ever attend the Davos World Economic Forum, the venue at which European and American elites have long assembled to establish the framework for global affairs.

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