Week in Review: Trump Criticizes NATO Allies, Germany Courts China, Japan Seeks First-Strike Capacity, and Much More

• U.S. President Donald Trump met with other leaders from NATO this week and criticized them for not meeting their military spending commitments. Prophecy shows that America’s encouragement of a stronger European military will have unintended consequences.
• Germany seems to be responding to the cooling of relations with America by strengthening its relations with China. It hosted China’s premier this week and is boosting economic and diplomatic ties.
• Japan says North Korea isn’t going far enough by denuclearizing—it needs to demilitarize entirely. It is countering the North Korean threat by boosting its own first-strike capabilities.
• We’ll also talk about Israel knocking out two drones from Syria, trouble in Britain over Brexit, China boosting its role in the Middle East, the return of Ethiopia’s navy, and America’s bitter battle over the Supreme Court.

Links

• Trump Criticizes NATO Allies
• “Europe and America: They’ve Lost That Loving Feeling”
• “The Significance of Germany’s Break From America”
• “Atlantic Rift” from He Was Right
• Germany Courts China
• “Facing U.S. Tariffs, China Embraces German Business”
• “Trade Wars Have Begun”
• Japan Seeks First-strike Capacity
• TREND: “Why the Trumpet Watches Japan’s March Toward Militarism”
• Israel’s War With Syria
• “Russia Outmaneuvers the United States in Syria”
• Britain’s Brexit Wobble
• “This Week Proves That Brexit Can’t Fix Britain”
• “Brexit Exposes UK’s Many Infirmities”
• China Courts the Middle East
• “Comrade to All, Opponent to None?”
• Eritrea-Ethiopia Détente
• “The Return of Ethiopia’s Navy”
• The Battle for the Supreme Court
• “Americans Battle Over President Trump’s Supreme Court Nominee”